Special Rapid Deployment Force Of Ministry Of Internal Affairs Has Been Made Separate Military Unit
- 17.03.2016, 11:19
Known for reprisals against the opposition, the Special Rapid Deployment Force of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was a member of the 3214 base, became a separate unit and got a banner.
Today Minister of Internal Affairs Ihar Shunevich has handed over a battle banner of a military unit to SWAT commander Yury Nazaranka in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, BelTA informs.
“Special Rapid Deployment Force has increased so much from the date of its creation, that it has developed his own multidivisions of services, as in the whole of the military unit. So I prepared the proposal, and the Minister of the Interior made up the decision to set up military unit 3032 on the basis of SWAT as part of the 3rd separate brigade of special purpose,” – commander of the internal troops Yury Karaeu said.
The Special Rapid Deployment Force was created in the internal troops on the basis of military unit 3214 on June 29, 1999.
The commander of the 3rd brigade of special forces of internal troops was a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Belarusian opposition leader Dzmitry Paulichenka. International community suspects him, former Interior Minister of Belarus Uladzimir Naumau and Yury Sivakou, former Security Council Secretary Viktar Sheiman of creation the “death squads” out of the SWAT fighters, accessory to disappearances of former Interior Minister Yury Zakharanka, politician Viktar Hanchar, businessman Anatol Krasouski and journalist Dzmitry Zavadski.
In the movie “The Godfather,” which was shown on Russian channel NTV on the eve of the Belarusian elections-2010, soldier of the 3214 unit Dzmitry Novichek revealed that member of the special unit Valery Ihnatovich, sentenced for the abduction of Dzmitry Zavadski, former commander of the military unit 3214 Colonel Dzmitry Pavlichenka and major of the 3214 unit Andrei Vasilyeu were members of the “death squad” – a secret unit, created on the basis of special troops on Lukashenka’s orders to terminate political opponents of the Belarusian dictator.