BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/01/2007

Graves of Muslims-Heroes of World War I Desecrated in Belarus

Due to facts of vandalism on Muslim cemetery in Slonima (Gomel region, Belarus) criminal proceeding is instituted accordingly to article "hooliganism", BelaPAN in Slonima informs.

Deputy head of Muslim religious union of Belarus and chairman-imam of Slonima mosque Suleyman-haji Bayrashevski explained that fact of vandalism was found at Muslim cemetery situated 5 km. from city during funeral ceremony of one of members of local Muslim community. "Unknown vandals took out 6 tombstones, 2 of them were destroyed. Criminals desecrated 6 graves of Muslim-soldiers of Russian Empire, born in Kazan and Ufa and died in 1915 during World War I", imam said.

Accordingly to him such fact took place at the cemetery in 1996 when vandals digged out 6 graves. "Criminal case commenced then but later it was stopped as suspected persons were not found", S. Bayrashevski said.

He reminded that in 2002 local mosque was desecrated: unknown persons put the image of fascist swastika and call: "Time to kill!"

"Criminals haven't been found", S. Bayrashevski said in this respect. At the same time he believes that these manifestations of religious and national intolerance are not connected with one another.

Source:

http://www.demaz.org/cgi-bin/e-cms/vis/vis.pl?s=001&p=0055&n=002222&g=

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