A photo exhibition devoted to the disappeared Belarusians will take place in Eindhoven
- 8.09.2010, 10:37
On September, 16 the ceremony in commemoration of the disappeared Belarusians will take place in a twin town of Minsk- Eindhoven (the Netherlands).
The opening of the photo exhibition devoted to struggle for the truth of the disappeared people in Belarus will take place in Eindhoven, in St.Catharina Church, on the eleventh anniversary of the involuntary disappearances of the vice speaker of the Supreme Council of Belarus Viktar Hanchar and a businessman and public figure Anatol Krasousky. The exposition will be opened by the representative of the municipal authorities Staf Depla. The daughter of Anatol Krasousky Valeria will make a speech. The opening ceremony will start at 15:30. The exhibition will last till September, 30.
The photo exhibition is organized by combined efforts of “Amnesty International”, National Trade Unions Federation of the Netherlands, Mission to Minsk and the initiative “We remember”.
On September, 16, 2008, 4 oaks were planed in memory of the involuntary disappeared Yury Zaharanka, Viktar Hanchar, Anatol Krasousky, and Dmitry Zavadsky in the center of Eindhoven, which is a twin town of Minsk from 1995, with the involvement of the municipal authorities. On September, 16, 2009 a large-scale action of memory was held near the trees. This year the eleventh anniversary from the day of the disappearance of Viktar Hanchar and Anatol Krasousky will be also marked with the ceremony of commemoration. It will be opened by Valeria Krasouskaya. The poet Leo Messman whose verse devoted to the involuntary disappeared Belarusians is engraved on the memory tablet near the trees will read his new verse.
The participants of the ceremony will stand a silence minute in memory of Aleh Byabenin, who died under obscure circumstances on September, 3. We remind, that the founder and leader of the site charter97.org Aleh Byabenin was found hanged in his summer cottage near Minsk.