\u201cWhat is most worrisome of all is the operation of the death squads. Lukashenko uses them on his political opponents\u2026The problem with the death squads is that once they are created, they are very difficult to decommission. They don\u2019t disappear, they grow and look for new victims,\u201d said Radoslaw Sikorski in interviews to the \u00abBelarusian Review\u00bb in 2004.<\/p>\n
Recently secret service officers abducted youth leaders Zmitser Dashkevich, and Artur Finkevich, an activist of \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d civil campaign Uladzimir Lemesh and Yauhien Afnagel. In all the cases the activists were abducted by unknown people in plainclothes, who however had police walkie-talkies. The young people were taken to the forest, threatened and demanded to stop political activities. Then the activists were taken away from Minsk for dozens of kilometers.<\/p>\n
Earlier activists of \u201cYoung Front\u201d Nasta Palazhanka and Dzyanis Karnou were kidnapped and taken out of the city. Despite of the fact that the young people applied the prosecutor\u2019s office and even recognized one of the abductor on a photo from a newspaper (he was the commander of \u201cAlmaz\u201d special squad Alyaksandr Leanenka), the authorities in fact deny to carry put investigation of the abductions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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