Participants of the event dedicated to the Day of Memory and Sorrow for those killed in the Great Patriotic War in Brest. Archival photoMINSK, January 28 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, during his address to the people, said that Belarus would seek recognition of the genocide of Belarusians during the Great Patriotic War at the international level. «It is impossible not to note the initiative of our Prosecutor General's Office on large-scale investigation of crimes against the Belarusian people. Today, new facts of the Nazi occupation are being discovered. We are talking about the targeted Nazi policy of genocide on the territory of Belarus. Its bloody result is the extermination of 3 million inhabitants of Belarus. It is extremely important that the collected array of eyewitness testimonies of war crimes, the results of examinations, did not lie down like a dead weight on archive shelves. We must not allow the deeds of the atrocities of the Nazis and their accomplices to be erased from the memory of history … We will seek recognition and condemnation of the genocide of the Belarusian people at the international level,» Lukashenko said. Earlier, Prosecutor General of Belarus Andrei Shved said that he had initiated ug The main case on the fact of the genocide of the population of the Byelorussian SSR during the Great Patriotic War is under investigation. The Prosecutor General noted that Minsk would raise the issue of extradition of war criminals who are still alive for an open trial on the territory of the republic. He also stated that the Belarusian side intends to submit evidence to the international tribunal in order to start the procedure for recognizing the genocide during the war years. the truth about World War II
