Holy place Kurapaty

Kurapaty is a holy place of Belarusan people, where the Russian communust occupants have killed more than 250.000 of martyrs. The forest Kurapaty near Minsk is one of the many places on the territory of Belarus, where victims of the Russian terror against our people have been killed and buried in 1917-41. It is possible to compare Kurapaty with Auschwitz and Buchenwald according to the big number of victims and of the large scale of the crime.

Occupation communist authorities of Belarus hid the truth about the tragedy, they tried to annihilate the tombs, constructed the gas-pipes and the road on the tombs, excavated and removed many remains of victims. The official propaganda maintained that the victims of the German nazi occupation are buried in Kurapaty. But at the end of the 1980s Mr. Zianon Pazniak, a well-known archeologist and historian, has carried on the first archeological excavations in Kurapaty. His discoveries and evidences of the witnesses of the tragedy - inhabitants of the neighbouring villages - have confirmed that there were Belarusans who have been killed and buried by the Russian communist secret police NKVD in Kurapaty in 1937-41. Until recently the propaganda of the anti-popular Lukashenka regime refuted these facts confirmed by the state commissions in the 1990s. The followers of the terrorist regime fear the truth and the responsibility of the criminal acts commited against the people.

In 1988 thousands of persons came to Kurapaty in order to commemorate the innocent victims. The history of the Belarusan Popular Front “Adradzennie” (the BPF) began namely since the first rallies in Kurapaty. The BPF fought under the leadership of Zianon Pazniak for the liberation of Belarus from the Russian occupation. We have achieved the independence of our country in 1991. In those years the people began to erect the crosses in Kurapaty in order to create the National Memorial. Nowadays the BPF is defending Belarus from the Russian aggression.

The new act of the tragedy has been started on September 20, 2001, at the day of the false “inauguration” of the usurper Lukashenka who had frauded once more the presidencial elections. Members of the Belarusan Popular Front “Adradzennie” and of its Conservative Christian Party - BPF have obstructed the way to the tractors and defended Kurapaty for six weeks. We have erected hundreds of crosses in Kurapaty. On November 8, 2001, immediately after the satanic celebrations of the communist revolution of 1917 the Lukashenka regime has started a massive attack in Kurapaty. Members of the Conservative Christian Party - BPF defended the holy place holding the crosses. Tens of persons have been beaten, injured, tortured and arrested by the KGB- and police officers. More than 100 crosses have been destroyed. The defenders of Kurapaty have been prosecuted and punished by the Lukashenka “justice”. But the authorities were unable to intimidate the people. We continue to create the National Memorial. The road (constructed in accordance with Lukashenka’s order on the tombs of our ancestors) will be liquidated when the anti-national regime would collapse. It is necessary to note that the destroyers of our holy place have some accomplices. They call themselves “specialists” and “art historians”. They have formed some committees and started to elaborate new “projects of memorial” in Kurapaty together with the regime and the organizations which are acting under the auspices of the KGB. These “specialists” tried to protests against the erection of the crosses in Kurapaty and the National Memorial. They would construct a pseudo-memorial of ferro-concrete with the red star on the territory of the holy place. When their attaimpts have collapsed they began to collect money for the “fence” and so on.

Members of the Conservative Christian Party - BPF continue to create the National Memorial in Kurapaty erecting the crosses in spite of the activity of the agents provocateurs and of the illegal Lukashenka regime.

21/10/2004 › English