“Major” Paulau was in charge of candidates for “deputies” beating (Photo, video)
- 17.09.2008, 14:23
During the disband of the rally of solidarity with the families of the abducted and assassinated opposition leaders in Belarus on September 16 in Minsk the chairman of Minsk city executive committee Mikhail Paulau was present. It was reported by the democratic candidates for “deputies” who were present on the square. Riot policemen brutally beaten up participants of the peaceful rally, including candidates for “deputies” of the “parliament” who were among them.
The chairman of Minsk city executive committee was standing on the square and observing how riot policemen forced out people with portraits of the abducted and flags of Belarus and the European Union.
Seeing Paulau, candidates for “deputies” of the “parliament” urge him to stop arbitrary and illegal actions of the riot policemen. But Paulau didn’t react to the oppositionists’ calls. Riot policemen started to push out the oppositionists from the square even more violently.
On September 16, on the Day of Solidarity, a rally dedicated to the anniversary of abduction of opposition leaders Viktar Hanchar and Anatol Krasouski was disbanded in Minsk. Riot policemen brutally beat MP candidates, including UCP leader Anatol Lyabedzka, BPF deputy head Vintsuk Vyachorka, his son Franak Vyachorka and others. People were beaten by truncheons on their legs and bodies, snatched portraits of the disappeared, tore up European and national flags. Riot policemen broke glasses of the deputy head of the BPF party Vintsuk Vyachorka who tried to defend his son from amok riot policemen. Riot policemen knocked down Franak on the ground and were kicking him.
“It is obvious that riot policemen didn’t have an order not to use force, otherwise they would have been acting in a different way. Presence of the chairman of Minsk city executive committee Mikhail Paulau on the square shows that the regime is directly responsible for disband and beating of the opposition activists during the rally on September 16,” Vintsuk Vyachorka said in an interview to the Charter’97 press-centre.
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