The Belarusian Prosecutor General’s Office formed a working group to prepare a bill that would allow criminal proceedings to be instituted against deceased persons who were involved in the genocide in the country but escaped responsibility. This was explained in a video released by Dmitry Brylev, deputy head of the department for interaction with the media and editorial activities of the department. Youtube channel State Attorney General’s Office.
As Brylev says, the group is asked to “develop a legal mechanism to bring to justice Nazi criminals and accomplices who, for a variety of reasons, including those related to the policies of individual states, could not be brought to justice.” “
The representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office emphasized that after the adoption of this draft law, criminal cases “against those who punished the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War” will become possible.
Belarusian deputies in February accepted Law on the introduction of the death penalty for officials for treason.