Prosecutor General’s Office discovered 400+ previously unknown burial sites of genocide victims

This figure was announced by Belarus’ Prosecutor General Andrei Shved during the funeral ceremony of the reburial of 740 victims of the genocide of the Great Patriotic War in Uruchie of the Minsk District

“This site alone contains the remains of at least 50,000 people. This year, we found seven more pit graves, where from 3 to 7 thousand people are buried. This is in addition to the eight already known pits, which are designated in the acts of the Extraordinary Commission of 1944. The scale of the tragedy of the Belarusian people during the war years is much greater. Only from the example of this site we see that much more people were destroyed than was indicated in official documents.”

Andrei Shved recalled that the memorial place at Uruchie was opened this year, enabling people to see with their own eyes the full horror of fascism and understand how important it is to prevent the revival of Nazism. He spoke in more detail about the identification of previously unknown places of massacres of civilians during the investigation of the criminal case of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War, “Over 400 mass graves have been found, but this is far from a complete figure. We will have to uncover such reburials for many more years, inspect them and rebury as expected: with all honours.”

There are 184 more such sites to be explored. The work ahead is enormous and painstaking, but the Prosecutor General promised that it will be completed.