Police Breaks In Political Victims’ Museum :: Charter'97 :: News

Representatives of the Bobruisk town hall and local law-enforcers broke into the office of the Belarusian organization of political repressions’ victims on February 25 morning. The raid has been carried out upon the request of the organization’s newly appointed leadership, supported by the Bobruisk authorities. The organization’s chairman Anna Bogach claims that the regime’s main task is to liquidate Belarus’ only museum of political repressions’ victims, allocated in their office.

The assailants managed to get through the metal doors, leading into the organization’s office. They told some workers to remove the lock with a metal-cutting machine. The organization’s members, who tried to protest that arbitrary move, were told by officials that there was an oral command to free the apartment, while all the details can be inquired from the procuracy.

The goal of the action became clear when the office was visited by the leader of the recently created parallel organization of the victims of repressions Nina Alekseenko, who in no time got down to regular work. Bobruisk officials claim that they passed no special order on the break-in, but simply helped the legitimate head of organization to occupy her rightful place in the office. Deputy prosecutor of the Leninsky district of Bobruisk Marat Vorobiev said that he would not explain anything to the journalists.