Belarusian KGB cures scoliosis

“Young Front” activist Andrei Tsyanyuta has discharged from the hospital, where he had been examined within the frames of a drafting campaign.

Doctors contested a conclusion of the first instance and said Andrei Tsyanyuta had a lower degree of scoliosis. With mild scoliosis he faces 1.5-year military service. According to Andrei, he expected the medical board of the Homel region clinical hospital to make such a decision:

– The hospital physician Alyaksandr Vinnik hinted me last week my previous diagnosis wouldn’t be confirmed. The KGB is involved in this case. I think the doctors made what was profitable for the secret services,” the activist told the website odsgomel.org.

On August 26, the Homel clinical hospital #1 gave Andrei Tsyanyuta a conclusion saying he had medium scoliosis. The Homel city military enlistment office ignored this document and set the guy to an additional medical examination. Tsyanyuta had the medical examination in the traumatology department of the regional hospital on August 31. He spent a week in hospital, though the examination usually takes only three days. The main procedures over Tsyanyuta were X-ray filming of his curved spine. Doctors made 10 images.

Tsyanyuta was expelled from Bryansk Agricultural Academy and then summoned to the military enlistment office. Zmitser Zhaleznichenka, Franak Vyachorka, Ivan Shyla were also expelled from education establishments before drafting. They were recognized political soldiers.

Human rights activists also think the military enlistment office got interested in Tsyanyuta for a special reason:

– It seems nothing violates the law here, – Vasil Palyakou says. – But many questions arouse. For example, why did he learn about his expulsion later than the military office? It is strange, because it’s not a task of the military enlistment office to know who of the Belarusian was expelled from a Russian university. This is a continuation of the KGB campaign on drafting the active youth into the army.

Tsyanyuta also notices his expulsion from Bryansk Agricultural Academy was suspicious:

– I didn’t have academic failures. The document on my expulsion was backdated. It was signed only by a chancellory officer, it doesn’t have signatures of the rector and the dean. My curator told me if I hadn’t dealt with politics, I would have graduated fro university.

Andrei Tsyanyuta is going to go to the military enlistment office to day to make a complaint against the biased examination and demand organizing an independent medical examination.