AI Collects Signatures Under Demand to Investigate into Disappearances in Belarus :: Charter'97 :: News

Dutch affiliate of the international human rights organization Amnesty International allocated on its site an appeal with a demand to find out truth about the destiny of the missing Belarusian oppositionists – Dmitry Zavadsky, Yuri Zakharenko, Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky.

Following comes their address to Alexander Lukashenko, which is followed by signatures of those, who care about the fate of the missing ones.
“Your Excellency,
I would like to express my concern about the fact that the whereabouts of cameraman Dmitry Zavadsky, who disappeared on the 7th of July 2000, are still unknown.
Although earlier this year two men were convicted for kidnapping Zavadsky, I’m disturbed that state prosecutors failed to investigate allegations that high-level government figures were involved in Zavadsky’s disappearance.
I am also concerned about the lack of progress that is made into the investigations of the disappearances of Yury Zakharenko, Victor Gonchar, and Anatoly Krasovsky, who all vanished in 1999. Also in these cases numerous allegations, openly written about in newspapers and shown in several documents, have never been examined.
The uncertainty of not knowing what has happened to their husbands, fathers and sons has tormented the families of these men for much too long now.
I urge you to stop the impunity and make sure that the prosecutors will examine all material available in these cases.”

http://www.amnesty.nl/ff_petitie.shtm