“Rossiya” TV Channel told about murders of Lukashenka’s opponents (Video)
69- 13.09.2010, 9:06
A sensational item was broadcast on Rossiya TV channel in the weekly programme “Vesti nedeli” by Evgeny Revenko.
As Rossiya (“Russia”) TV channel reports, on September 6 the funeral of a journalist Aleh Byabenin took place in Minsk. According to investigators, he allegedly hanged himself in his summer house near Minsk. However those who knew the journalist well doubt that. The official conclusion was too hasty, while there are many strange things in the case, not to mention the upcoming presidential elections, which date is to be announced soon, and the fact that Aleh Byabenin was conducting investigation of disappearances of politicians in Belarus opposing Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Experts and policemen who arrived to the scene, as witnesses say, from the first minutes of examination reached a conclusion it had been a suicide. However, at closer examination friends noticed strange marks on the body of Aleh.
“He had something like a bruise near his neck, on his back, lower back and in the area of the left kidney. I asked: what it that? I was told that it was inherited. I said: “I was in sauna with him many times, and haven’t ever seen that,” said Zmitser Bandarenka, a coordinator of “European Belarus” civil campaign, a friend of Aleh Byabenin.
As friends of the journalist say, official Belarusian authorities, and especially secret services, were suspicious about Aleh Byabenin. For the last 10-15 years he had been spied upon, he received anonymous threats, and in spite of that Byabenin continued to conduct journalistic investigations, fish for information and actively cooperated with large Western and Russian TV channels.
It is a known fact that Aleh Byabenin was directly engaged in investigation of mysterious abductions of prominent oppositional leaders. He knew a lot, and more and more new information was recie4ved by him, including information about the so-called “death squads”, a certain secret military structure used for neutralizing dissenting politicians, businessmen and journalists.
In 1999 one of the main political opponents of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Vice Speaker of the Supreme Council Henadz Karpenka, died in mysterious circumstances. According to his widow, Liudmila, Vice Speaker had been administered a virulent poison, which affects brain blood vessels, but leaves no traces. Officially Karpenka died of a stroke in a hospital.
A month after the death of the Vice Speaker, one more oppositionist, a former Interior Minister Yury Zakharanka, disappeared in the yard of his house. Once a Lukashenka’s associate and, he crossed over to the side of the opposition, organized the Union of Military and Police Officers, but in April 1999 Zakharanka was abducted by masked people. His body was not found, and an organized misinformation was carried out by mass media.
On September 16 of the same year according to the same scenario a former chairman of the Election Committee, an acting chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus Viktar Hanchar, was forcibly pulled out from his car and taken in an unknown direction. Hanchar had been actively collecting documents for Lukashenka’s impeachment, but disappeared two days before the report’s publication.
On July 7, 2000 one more disappearance happened. It was probably the most notorious one. A cameraman of the ORT crew Dzmitry Zavadski disappeared on the way to airport Minsk-2. Dzmitry has not been found since then. Officers of the special unit have been detained and sentenced to life sentences, but Dzmitry’s body has not been found.
Investigating the case of Zavadski, investigators of the prosecutor’s office and the KGB of Belarus, disclosed that a special unit with punitive functions existed. Commander of Minsk special task squad Dzmitry Paulichenka, according to investigators, and on secret order of its high commanders, was in charge of firing brigades, which members were special task force officers.
“This is the pistol with the help of which death sentences were executed. This gun was demanded by the minister from me in the days when the politicians were abducted,” told the former head of Minsk remand prison number 1 Aleh Alkaeu.
A former head of Minsk remand prison number 1 Aleh Alkaeu is hiding abroad as he knows too much. He has written a book and is safely keeping serious incriminating facts and proofs.
“As a president Lukashenka is vulnerable. He is really vulnerable only in this system. He understands that. However I am convinced that he had not given an order to assassinate. The order was prosaic, something like “to neutralize”, “to put out of the way”, even not to put out of the way, but “to gag” oppositionists”, the former head of the remand prison number 1 Aleh Alkaeu believes.