People visited in their flats and asked to be fingerprinted in Babruisk

Earlier, people received summons from military enlistment committees, now officers of law enforcement bodies have begun to visit their houses.

Two men in civvies visited a family of pensioners K. and said their son must be fingerprinted.

– As soon as my husband and I began our breakfast, some one knocked at the door. We live alone, our children have their own families. We though it was our younger son, but he has a key. I looked though the eyehole. There were two men behind the door, one of them squatting on his haunches, like a prisoner. I felt fear. I heard ‘Militia! Open!’” Ms Lyudmila tells to BulletinOnline.org.

The couple opened the door.

The guests didn’t introduce themselves, didn’t show identity cards, but began to ask questions about the older son of the hosts, who has been living separately for some years, though he is registered in their apartment. They said he must be fingerprinted for the military enlistment office.

The visitors showed their service certificates only on insistent demand of Ms Lyudmila.

The guests said they were officers of the temporary detention facility of Babruisk and were ordered to visit apartments in free time. Having been refused, they went away with indignant remarks: “Is it our business? We will pass your words on.”

All men of Babruisk were offered to be fingerprinted yet in October. They were suggested in different ways. They received summons to appear in a military enlistment office, then began to enterprises of to take fingerprints. They have recently visited Babruisk branch of Belarusian Economy University. Then they began to visit industrial enterprises.

Anatol Sanatsenka, editor-in-chief of independent “Babruiski Kuryer”, was invited for dactiloscopy by a warrant officer of the temporary detention facility. The journalist refused to come, by officer Shumakher found him at home and handed in special “summons”.

– It is not so clear here, – fingerprinted Babruisk Belarusian Economy University student Artsyom thinks. – If a military enlistment office needs this procedure, why do officers from the detention facility come? If they are looking for a criminal, why is there no notice in a state newspaper? When social workers visit apartments, all city papers explain what they want!