Officials of the State Control Committee honoured the memory of the victims of genocide at the Blagovshchyna memorial complex

 On the International Day of Commemoration of the Victims of Genocide, officials of the State Control Committee honoured the memory of civilians killed during the Great Patriotic War at the Blagovshchyna memorial complex.

 

The Chairman of the State Control Committee Vasiliy Gerasimov, employees of the control authority and financial investigation body laid flowers at the memorial stone. The memory of the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people was commemorated with a minute of silence.

 

This place, located a few kilometres from the village of Maly Trostenets, was the site of mass executions of civilians - not only residents of Belarus, but also deportees from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. There were found 34 grave pits, some of them up to 50 metres long. Only a few people managed to escape by a miracle.

 

The memorial complex "Blagovshchina" was opened in 2018.

 lex "Blagovshchina" was opened in 2018.