Sivakou has apologized to Svyatskaya for quoting Hitler :: Charter'97 :: News

The Frunzensky district court of Minsk appointed 20 March the date of hearing of the lawsuit on the claim of Valyantsina Svyatskaya, Radio Svaboda reports. Claim of the BNF activist is directed to the Belarusian association of veterans of “Honor” departments of special designation of the ministry for internal affairs and to former minister for internal affairs, former deputy head of the president’s administration Yuri Sivakou.

Today Judge Svyatlana Misuna asked Valyantsina Svyatskaya and representative of the law defendant Albert Taipau for a preliminary talk. Ms Svyatskaya calls the court for defending her honor and dignity and rebating her moral damage by making the defendant pay her 60 million rubles

The claim was caused by Yuri Sivakou’s article in the “Honor”-“Journal of Special Designation”. The General quotes a large paragraph from ”Code of officer’s honor written by Adolf Hitler”. Mr. Sivakoy wrote that the Code would be of interest for many people and its statements would make many people think over them.

There are such lines in the article: ”Love for furer , people and fatherland is above all. That is why the officer must radically split himself from those who are on the side of the German road of struggle.”

According to Ms Svyatskaya such quotations from Hitler inflicted moral damage to her as a citizen of the partisan country. She stresses in the claim that the mentioned code of honor was compiled by Hitler when the nazi troops attacked the territory of Belarus and other republics of the Soviet Union. The text had been prepared for officers who were killing citizens of Belarus.

As it is reported in the claim, “ by introducing Code of Honor ”of a fascist officer to officers of the ministry for internal affairs of Belarus General Sivakou suggests to be guided by it in their activities.

According to Ms Svyatskaya, during today’s talk the representative of the law defendant passed the apologies of General Sivakou to her but Ms Svyatskaya insists on the lawsuit being heard in the court.

“Today a public apology was given to me on behalf of General Sivakou. He apologized for offending me. And thanks God that Mr. General Sivakou realized that”, Ms Svyatskaya reported.

Representative of the law defendant also emphasized that Ms Svyatskaya had launched a broad campaign in the mass media, supposedly, many people had not read the article but started addressing offensive words to Mr. Sivakou.

“ Sivakou intends to lay a counterclaim to me for defending his honor and dignity if I do not apologize to him… I have nowhere personally offended him by demanding the court to finalize the case”, the woman says.

It is to be mentioned, that Yuri Sivakou after Lukashenka’s victory in election 1994 occupied posts of minister for internal affairs, deputy head of the president’s administration, minister of sport in different years. In September 2004 the European Union made a decision on banning entry visas to certain Belarusian upper officials, Yuri Sivakou being among them, presumably associated with disappearance of the oppositional politicians.