Juryy Sacharanka

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Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
Юрый Захаранка
Łacinka : Juryy Zacharanka
Transl. : Juryy Zacharanka
Transcr. : Juryy Sacharanka
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Юрий Захаренко
Transl .: Yury Zacharenko
Transcr .: Yuri Sakharenko

Juryj Sacharanka ( Belarusian Юрый Захаранка , * January 1, 1952 ; † 1999 (?)) Was the Interior Minister of Belarus from 1994 to 1995 and later an opposition activist . On May 7, 1999, he disappeared without a trace.

Life

Sacharanka was born in Homelskaya Woblasz . In 1987 he graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Interior of the USSR and received the rank of major general . From 1991 he worked in the Soviet Union and Belarus for various bodies to fight crime. Sacharanka was the Minister of the Interior of Belarus from July 1994 to October 1995. He lost his post after he refused to force opposition MPs out of parliament in 1995 and to break up a strike in the Minsk metro . Sakharanka became an active member of the opposition movement and became chairman of the United Citizens' Party of Belarus . In October 1996, Sacharanka became chairman of the government-independent civil commission investigating the regime's crimes. He also took part in an unofficial presidential election, which opposition groups held on May 16, 1999 in protest against the policies of the Lukashenka government. A few weeks before his disappearance without a trace on May 7, 1999, he announced that he wanted to found a union of officers against President Aljaksandr Lukashenka .

His family is represented by lawyer Aleh Woltschak .

Investigation into his disappearance

Government decision-makers are in the disappearance of Sacharanka and three other dissidents Dsmitryj Zavadsky , Viktar Hanchar and Anatol Krassouski involved.

In 2004 a special investigator from the Council of Europe came to the conclusion that a special unit of the Belarusian Ministry of the Interior was behind the kidnapping of Sakharanka. In December 2019, Deutsche Welle published a documentary film in which Juryj Harauski, a former member of the Belarusian special unit, confirmed that his unit had arrested, taken away and murdered Sacharanka and, later, Hantschar and Krassouski.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography on slounik.org (English)
  2. ↑ Where are Belarus's Disappeared Oppositionists? from hri.org, accessed on July 10, 2016
  3. ^ A b Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss: Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World. Cambridge University Press, 2009. p. 284
  4. ↑ Threatened mistreatment and torture / threatened "disappearance" . amnesty.de. November 25, 1999. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved on April 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Investigation report of the Council of Europe, see “Weekly Report: Events in Belarus: 07. – 13.05.2007” ( Memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ "The Minsk Murders - A Key Witness Breaks His Silence" , DW, December 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Sacharanka, juryj
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Захаранка, Юры (Belarusian); Zacharanka, Juryj (Łacinka); Zacharanka, Juryj (transliteration of Belarusian); Sacharanka, Juryj (transcription of Belarusian); Захаренко, Юрий (Russian); Zacharenko, Jurij (transliteration of Russian); Sakharenko, Juri (transcription of Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian politician and interior minister
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1952
DATE OF DEATH after May 7, 1999