Previously unknown burial of civilians killed during Great Patriotic War unearthed in Glusk District

A previously unknown burial site of civilians shot by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War has recently been unearthed in a forest area near the village of Zaelitsa in the Glusk District, sb.by reports with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office website  

Photo by Prosecutor's Office of Glusk District

"During the investigative and other procedural actions, the relatives of the victims, as well as the circumstances of their death, were identified. In particular, a resident of the village of Styag informed that, in March 1944, the Nazi occupiers and their accomplices shot his relatives, Mikulich Illarion (born in 1901) and his son Mikulich Nikolai (born in 1933), in a forest area near the village on suspicion of assistance to partisans,” the Prosecutor's Office staff informed.

Earlier, a burial site with the skeletal remains of two people (an adult and a child) was found by military personnel of the 52nd separate specialised search battalion of the Defence Ministry. Field search operations were carried out according to the established plan under the leadership of the prosecutor of the Glusk District, Andrei Larkin.

The Prosecutor General's Office also clarified that the personal data and the method of destruction of the victims will be clarified during expert research.

"After the excavations were completed, the prosecutor's office of the Glusk District organised a visit by students to the place of execution. Young people were informed on the work done to find and establish evidence of genocide of the BSSR residents during the Great Patriotic War," the source added.