11 December 2025, 13:35

Karanik: Genocide for the Belarusian nation is a non-healing wound

MINSK, 11 December (BelTA) – Genocide for the Belarusian nation is a wound that does not heal, a reminder of millions who died, of the ashes and ruins left in place of Belarusian towns and villages. The opinion was voiced by Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Karanik during the international applied science conference timed to the 77th anniversary since the United Nations Organization adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, BelTA has learned.

Vladimir Karanik said: “For many countries genocide is a law term that represents an echo of remote conflicts. For our nation it is a wound that does not heal, a reminder of millions who died, of the ashes and ruins left in place of Belarusian towns and villages. It is a reminder of more than 1,100 days of the occupation, of more than three years of suffering that affected all the population strata without an exception. A reminder of more than 580 places of forced imprisonment. Considering how many people died in those places, they can be rightfully called death camps.”

He noted that Belarusians still feel the demographic consequences of the genocide. “After all, millions of those, who died during the war, including hundreds of thousands of minors, mean tens of millions of children who were not born after the war. And we have no right to forget it,” Vladimir Karanik stressed.

“The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus actively interacts with the Prosecutor General’s Office and provides the necessary assistance for establishing facts of the genocide, for giving back names to all the guiltless and nameless victims of that war,” Vladimir Karanik noted. “In the name of the memory about the past generation, in the name of a bright future we have to remember it. Particularly now when attempts to rewrite history are being made, when fascism once again rears its head. Our voice should be the voice of memory. And not for the sake of vengeance, but for the sake of future generations. We cannot afford allowing war and genocide to once again come into our common home.”