Modernization by means of child labour

Children are forcedly engaged in cleaning works at Barysaudreu.

Students of 9-11 grades of the school number 6 in Barysau are sent to work at Barysaudreu.

The shocking information was confirmed for the barysau.by web-site by several people.

The high school students are sent to clean up the territory of the scandalous enterprise in Barysau. At the same time the pupils, who are late for classes, are automatically sent to work there.

The school number 6 is in Leninskaja Street. This educational institution is located not far from the timber processing enterprise.

“This is true! My son’s form mistress asked for permission for him to work at cleaning the territory of Barysaudreu. Yesterday at 14.00 the parents of five boys agreed to that, two pupils were late for classes and sent there as a punishment. The school number six! My child has to study there for two more years. What can we do?”, - the mother of one of the pupils cannot hide the emotions.

“Today in the morning one of the teachers of the sixth school also told me that yesterday since the very morning they were going to send children to Barysaudreu”, - another reader reports.

Apart from that, information came that the students of Barysau State Construction Lyceum (former vocational college number 62) also have to work at cleaning the enterprise’s territory.

In the meanwhile at the enterprise itself the three following Saturdays have been proclaimed the days of unpaid work that all the plant’s employees have to work on. The administration also advised to forget about quitting before July – the new deadline, when another inspection is expected at Barysaudreu.

We would remind that on 8 November the enterprise was visited by Lukashenka. As a result he fired the deputy head of his administration Andrej Tur, the head of the administration Andrej Kabiakou was severely reprimanded and warned for the last time, he also fired the chairman of Minsk region executive committee Barys Batura and the chairman of Bellesbumprom concern Aliaksandr Pieraslaucau, and threatened the officials with bringing criminal charges. The dressing-down was caused by the failure to modernize the enterprise.