UCP leader: Silence motivates “fear squads” for new crimes

In order to receive and answer to the request to the KGB concerning his abduction in April 2006, Anatol Lyabedzka prepares a request to the office of Prosecutor General.

“I was encouraged to do so by abductions of democratic activists which have become massive recently,” the leader of the United Civil Party said to ucpb.org website. “The matter is, three years ago a special operation was carried out against me. I was seized in a garage cooperative by unknown people in mufti, supposedly by officials of Alfa special unit. I was handcuffed, my jacket was pulled on my head, and I was transported around the city for a long time. Then I was taken to a building in Komsomolskaya Street in Minsk, and after that I was interrogated before a camera. In midnight people in masks took me to a car and took me outside the city. I found my car at a parking place where it was taken from the building of Romanian Embassy in Belarus”.

Anatol Lyabedzka says he saw no official reaction to the fact of his abduction.

“I addressed the KGB naturally, however, I received no official response, and then I gave a wave of the hand to that,” the UCP leader says. “But now I understand that I was to be persistent and demand explanations from force structures. As the practice shows, silence and absence of public reaction motivates “fear squads” for new crimes”.

We remind that on December 5 “Young Front” leader Zmitser Dashkevich was abducted. The unknown kept him in the car for 5.5 hours and threw him out of the car 70 kilometres from Minsk. On December 6 “European Belarus” activist Yauhen Afnagel was seized. He was taken 20 kilometres away from the capital. 6 young activists were seized this year. Oppositionists suppose that abductions were organised by special services.