Book Firing Squad by Aleh Alkaeu to be presented in The Hague

The Dutch translation of the book Firing Squad by former head of Minsk detention centre Aleh Alkaeu will be presented in The Hague on November 27.

As BelaPAN learnt from the author, the translation of Firing Squad wasn’t a main aim or a commercial project. “I hope to get to people of Russia and Europe,” Alkaeu notes, “in first turn to Russian and European politicians, representatives of media and human rights organizations the terrible reality of today’s Belarus, the reality, stemmed from unlimited power of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.”

The author thanks MEP Hans van Baalen, community leaders of the Netherlands and Belarusian diapore in the Netherlands for their help in publishing the book.

We remind that Viktar Hanchar, the first vice speaker of the 13th Supreme Council of Belarus and head of the Central Electoral Commission; businessman and public figure Anatol Krasouski; former interior minister and opposition politician Yury Zakharanka; ORT TV channel camera operator Zmitser Zavadski disappeared in Belarus in 1999–2000.

The international community calls to find out further fate of the disappeared Belarusian oppositionists. Resolutions of UN Human Rights Commission, Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and the OSCE urge to reveal the truth about the disappearances.

A number of Belarusian high-ranking officials, in particular former minister of internal affaires Uladzimir Navumau, former head of the president’s administration Viktar Sheiman, former minister of internal affaires Yury Sivakou, and former commander of special task squad Dzmitry Paulichenka are banned from entering the EU countries and the US, because they are suspected of involvement in kidnapping of the oppositionists.