27 December 2007
Group calls on public, non-governmental organizations to commemorate Stalinist terror victims at Kurapaty on December 29

A group spearheading the commemoration of Stalinist terror victims has called on members of the public and non-governmental organizations to lay flowers at Kurapaty, a Stalin-era massacre site, on December 29.

The group wants to mark with the commemoration ceremony the anniversary of Stalin's purges that reached a peak 70 years ago.

It held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the matter.

The meeting also focused on a drive to push for the rehabilitation of Belarusian émigré poet Larysa Heniush. The group earlier approached the Prosecutor General's Office over the matter but was told that the late Belarusian poet is not entitled to rehabilitation in accordance with a 1999 decision of the Supreme Court.

Set up in November 2006, the group includes pro-opposition scholars and survivors of Stalin's purges.