MINSK, 7 May (BelTA) - The genocide criminal cases being heard by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus prove that evil has a name, and that inhumanity knows no statute of limitations, press secretary of Belarus’ Supreme Court Yulia Lyaskova told the media in Minsk on 7 May, BelTA has learned.
“The criminal cases regarding the genocide of the Belarusian people examined by the Supreme Court, including the criminal case against Nazi criminal Hans Siegling, legally confirm that the genocide of the Belarusian people was a planned, ideologically motivated, and administratively organized crime, involving all institutions of the Third Reich. The scale of the genocide unleashed by Nazi Germany and its accomplices against the Belarusian and other Soviet peoples had no precedent in world history. It is documented that at least 3 million people were killed on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR, more than 12,800 settlements were completely or partially destroyed, and more than 560 death camps were established,” Yulia Lyaskova said.
She emphasized that the reaction of the international community to this day does not correspond to the scale of this tragedy. “The judicial system of the Federal Republic of Germany showed unacceptable leniency toward Nazi criminals in the post-war period. There were attempts to apply statutes of limitations to the mass murders committed on the territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, including on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR,” the press secretary noted.
It is important to synchronize the assessments at the international level of the criminal acts committed by the Nazis against humanity. “Such a fair assessment of crimes that have no statute of limitations must become a powerful counterweight to aggressive attempts to rehabilitate Nazism and distort the outcomes of the Great Patriotic War. The criminal cases regarding the genocide of the Belarusian people that the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus is examining prove that evil has a name, and that inhumanity has no statute of limitations,” Yulia Lyaskova said.
A reminder, Chairman of Belarus’ Supreme Court Andrei Shved has decided to send to the competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany a copy of the final judgment (sentence that has entered into legal force) against the Nazi war criminal, German citizen Hans Eugen Siegling, which was handed down by the Supreme Court on 11 March of this year. Guided by the principles of the inevitability of punishment and the rule of law, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus calls upon the German side to reopen the case against Hans Siegling.
“The criminal cases regarding the genocide of the Belarusian people examined by the Supreme Court, including the criminal case against Nazi criminal Hans Siegling, legally confirm that the genocide of the Belarusian people was a planned, ideologically motivated, and administratively organized crime, involving all institutions of the Third Reich. The scale of the genocide unleashed by Nazi Germany and its accomplices against the Belarusian and other Soviet peoples had no precedent in world history. It is documented that at least 3 million people were killed on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR, more than 12,800 settlements were completely or partially destroyed, and more than 560 death camps were established,” Yulia Lyaskova said.
She emphasized that the reaction of the international community to this day does not correspond to the scale of this tragedy. “The judicial system of the Federal Republic of Germany showed unacceptable leniency toward Nazi criminals in the post-war period. There were attempts to apply statutes of limitations to the mass murders committed on the territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, including on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR,” the press secretary noted.
It is important to synchronize the assessments at the international level of the criminal acts committed by the Nazis against humanity. “Such a fair assessment of crimes that have no statute of limitations must become a powerful counterweight to aggressive attempts to rehabilitate Nazism and distort the outcomes of the Great Patriotic War. The criminal cases regarding the genocide of the Belarusian people that the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus is examining prove that evil has a name, and that inhumanity has no statute of limitations,” Yulia Lyaskova said.
A reminder, Chairman of Belarus’ Supreme Court Andrei Shved has decided to send to the competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany a copy of the final judgment (sentence that has entered into legal force) against the Nazi war criminal, German citizen Hans Eugen Siegling, which was handed down by the Supreme Court on 11 March of this year. Guided by the principles of the inevitability of punishment and the rule of law, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus calls upon the German side to reopen the case against Hans Siegling.
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