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As already announced, the Belarus General Prosecutor’s Office has sent a formal request to Lithuania to provide legal assistance in a criminal case related to the genocide of the population in Belarus during the Second World War. The journalists were informed about this by the Deputy Chief of the Investigation Group, Senior Prosecutor of the Attorney General Eduardas Skuratas, reports TASS.
Belarus asks Lithuania to question the former President of the Republic of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, as a witness in this case. According to the TASS, Minsk is also verifying information about the participation of the former president in said war in retaliation against the Belarusians.
Investigators verify the information that Voldemaras Hubertas Laimutis Adamkavičius began his service as an assistant to the Minsk butcher (Impuliavičius) at the headquarters of the so-called Homeland Defense Army after voluntarily taking the oath.
According to the official, in 1944 V. Adamkus held positions corresponding to the post of assistant. “We have testimonies about 1944 at this time. Other data can be found.” Skurat added that Belarusian investigators are verifying whether Adamkus is involved in any way in the activities of the prison battalion.
On Wednesday, outgoing President Valdas Adamkus called Belarusian law enforcement allegations about its role in the Belarusian genocide nonsense.
“This is nonsense,” the president told BNS.
Lithuanian historians also investigated issues that were painful for the nation.
Arūnas Bubnys, director of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, told Info TV that 28 years of German police battalions had been formed in Lithuania during the German occupation.
“Many of them were sent out of Lithuania (to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) mainly to fight against Soviet partisans, as well as to protect communications, railways and various military objects,” said A. Bubnys.
However, according to the historian, there were several battalions that more or less carried out mass killings were involved in Holocaust actions.
“One of those battalions was the second police battalion led by Major A. Impuliavičius, which was formed in August 1941 in Kaunas and sent to serve in Minsk in early October of the same year. It was during that period in Belarus ( from early October 1941 to mid-December 1941) that this battalion participated in mass massacres of Jews in at least fifteen cities and towns (mainly in the Minsk region), ”said A. Bubnys.
According to the director of the Genocide Center, Lithuanian historians have done a lot in this area. The activities of the battalion led by Major A. Impuliavičius were mainly studied by the historian of the Genocide Center dr. Alfredas Rukšėnas.
“According to his research, it was this battalion that killed more than 15,000 people in Belarus. Belarusian Jews. This was achieved in 1941. in the fall,” said A. Bubnys.
According to the interlocutor, these investigations are sufficiently objective.
“Lithuanian historians do not try to hide various facts that are unpleasant to us as Lithuanian citizens. That was the case, and we did not hide it,” said A. Bubnys.
Bubnys: Belarusian prosecutors have mixed two different things
According to the historian, Belarusian prosecutors have confused two different things.
“One thing is the second police battalion led by Major A. Impuliavičius, and the other is the National Security team, which in 1944. the future president of Lithuania, V. Adamkus, served,” said A. Bubnys.
The historian emphasized that the Homeland Security team has nothing to do with the Holocaust.
“It has been in operation since 1944. to the Battle of Seda, on October 7 of the same year. He participated in the actions of the front. After the Battles of Seda, it dispersed and thus ended its existence, ”said A. Bubnys.
The head of the genocide pointed out once again that neither the National Security Team, nor even more so V. Adamkus, has a shine with the Major Impuliavičius Battalion or the Holocaust. The historian associates V. Adamkus’s attempt to include this historian not with the search for historical truth, but with the actions of the information war.
“I think it has to do with current politics.” In relation to the plane stop, the arrest of the Belarusian dissident and the subsequent EU sanctions against the Belarusian regime, all of this provoked a certain reaction from the Lukashenko regime, which was manifested in such information war propaganda actions, “said A. Bubnys.
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