Belarus in the near future plans to submit to the international tribunal of evidence to begin the procedure for the official recognition of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War. This was announced on Sunday the Prosecutor General of the country Andrei Swede on the air of the television channel “Belarus-1”.
“In the near future, we plan to submit an sufficient amount of evidence to the International Tribunal in order to begin in the prescribed manner the procedure for the official recognition of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War,” he said, without specifying, it will be for the instance .
According to Swedes, according to the first results of the investigation of the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War, “one can preliminarily assume that the official data on the number of destroyed civilians will be significantly higher.” To investigate the criminal case, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus launched a large-scale work: excavations, searches and a survey of eyewitness evidence, studying archival materials with the involvement of famous historical specialists.