{"id":112666,"date":"2024-11-05T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/112666\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"worker-sentenced-to-prison-for-genocide-denial","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/112666\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker sentenced to prison for genocide denial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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November 5, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> A Minsk judge has sentenced plasterer Andrej Savicki to three years in prison for denying genocide against the Belarusian people during World War II and insulting the head of state, SB. Belarus Segodnya<\/em> reported today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savicki deliberately distorted the circumstances of the mass extermination of the Chaty\u0144 villagers in March 1943, the state-owned newspaper said. “He lied that Auxiliary Police Battalion 118 and the SS Dirlewanger Special Battalion were not involved in the extermination of the people,” it claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also created and administrated an Odnoklassniki group that features posts insulting Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man was arrested in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the 2020 postelection protests, authorities in Minsk launched a campaign to highlight the genocidal dimensions of massacres committed by the Germans in 1941\u201343.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka signed a law to criminalize genocide denial, while officials and propaganda workers often try to pin genocide on opposition activists by calling them \u201cfascists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutor General Andrej \u0160vied personally contributed content by editing the \u201cGenocide Against the Belarusian People During the Great Patriotic War\u201d textbook for 5th graders, in which he accuses voters who took to the street to protest election fraud in 2020 of using Nazi symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0160vied also referred to Belarus\u2019 historic white-red-white flag, used by the opposition, as a \u201csymbol of Nazism and genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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