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	Kurapaty - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kurapaty (Belarusian: Курапаты) is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, where in 1937–1941, victims of Joseph Stalin's repression were executed.
		The discovery by historian Zianon Pazniak and exhumation of the remains in 1988 gave an added momentum to the pro-democracy and pro-independence movement in Belarus in the last years of Soviet Union before it collapsed.
		In 2002, when the Kurapaty site came under the threat from a planned widening of the Minsk Ring Road, its defenders (youth from the Belarusian Popular Front, Zubr and smaller organizations) occupied the site and sat out a bitter winter in tents.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kurapaty (345 words)

	Kurapaty today
		Kurapaty is only one of the places in Belarus where the Stalinist power machine eliminated the flower of the nation, her best sons - intellectuals and hard-working peasants who fed the nation - and thousands and thousands of other innocent people.
		The roots of an entire people were thus destroyed, with the only intention of intimidating and breaking the people, of turning it into a faceless grey mass of obedient Soviet people.
		The example of Kurapaty, the example of Belarus' is only one among many more in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere, it's a special example which links the past with the present, as it were, with a fl thread.
	www.belarusguide.com /as/law_pol/artycul.html (684 words)

	Belarusian Review :: Printable Version :: DZIADY and Kurapaty Unite the Opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In a requiem mass, held near Kurapaty, people were addressed by the writer Uladzimier Arlou and the politician Zianon Pazniak.
		This year's commemoration and the march to Kurapaty was officially organized on November 2nd by the Conservative Christian Party of BPF.
		The marchers heard speeches by deputy leaders of the Conservative Christian party, Juras Bielenki and Uladzimier Papkou, the chairman of the Belarusian Language Society Aleh Trusau, and the chairman of the BPF party Vincuk Viacorka.
	www.belreview.cz /printable/articles/2688.html (403 words)

	Ukrainian-related news stories from RFE
		The commission confirmed that the Kurapaty graves contain the remains of NKVD victims but said that their number is significantly lower that Paznyak's estimate and stands at some 30,000.
		Kurapaty was officially declared a memorial site, but the government took no further steps to honor the victims or their burial place.
		On one hand, the Kurapaty case doubtless highlights the weakness of civil society in a country that is generally believed to be the most heavily Sovietized and Russianized of all the former Soviet republics.
	www.infoukes.com /rfe-ukraine/2001/1113.html (1739 words)

	Bielarus.net › Belarusian Solidarity
		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
	www.bielarus.net /templatate-en.php?category=6 (292 words)

	Kurapaty
		The historical fact of the mass shootings of the population in Kurapaty carried out by the Stalinists in 1937-1941 was clear from the start, the subsequent selective exhumation using archaeological methods simply confirmed it at a more scientific level.
		The real number of burial sites at Kurapaty could have been as high as 900 or even more, while the size of the graves which have been destroyed or completely filled-in can now be estimated only from the dimensions of the existing graves.
		When analysing the results of the excavations at Kurapaty, I noticed the exact coincidence between the information from the reports of people who had witnessed the shootings, and the facts revealed during the exhumation.
	www.antiprotester.com /kurapaty.htm (11272 words)

	Kurapaty
		The historical fact of the mass shootings of the population in Kurapaty carried out by the Stalinists in 1937-1941 was clear from the start, the subsequent selective exhumation using archaeological methods simply confirmed it at a more scientific level.
		The real number of burial sites at Kurapaty could have been as high as 900 or even more, while the size of the graves which have been destroyed or completely filled-in can now be estimated only from the dimensions of the existing graves.
		When analysing the results of the excavations at Kurapaty, I noticed the exact coincidence between the information from the reports of people who had witnessed the shootings, and the facts revealed during the exhumation.
	knihi.com /kurapaty/kurap-e2.html (6059 words)

	ABM -- Mass Murder by Soviets at Kurapaty, Belarus (1937-1941)
		Among their activities, their current systematic attempt to revise the story of Kurapaty, to attempt to absolve their heroes Stalin and Derzhinsky and themselves of guilt, is one of the strongest examples of the desecration of the graves of the victims.
		The organization is ready to resume a watch of honour in Kurapaty including setting a tent camp of the memorial place defenders.
		The authors of the statement consider the ongoing expansion of the Minsk beltway to be a direct threat to Kurapaty.
	www.belarus-misc.org /kurapaty.htm (2457 words)

	Kurapaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At least 30,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 people are estimated to have perished there.
		Clinton presented a small granite monument "To Belarusians from the American people", perhaps the first post-Soviet cultural artefact from the U.S. on Belarusian soil.
		The first such demonstration in 1988, in which there were tens of thousands of participants, was brutally dispersed by the police.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurapaty (418 words)

	Stalin Shootings Haunt Belarus Villagers
		KURAPATY, Belarus -- Maria Tolstik lets tears roll down her face as she recalls how for four years more than half a century ago her sleep was interrupted nightly by the sound of people being shot to death.
		In the late 1980s, archaeologists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences determined that the people buried in Kurapaty were killed with Soviet-made bullets fired from Soviet-manufactured guns, and the Belarussian Prosecutor General's Office officially confirmed in 1995 that the remains belong to victims of the NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB.
		Today, few Minsk residents know about Kurapaty f a patch of forest marked by a rotting, rain-washed wooden cross hidden among pine trees just beyond the capital's southern border.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/10/17/006-print.html (644 words)

	Kurapaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kurapaty near Mensk (Minsk) is one of the many places where mass executions of Belarusian civilians were carried out during the Stalin regime (1937 - 1941) by the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs - at the time this was the name of what is today the KGB).
		In 1988, thanks to the efforts of Z. Pazniak and J. Smyhaliou, the articles "Kurapaty - the Road of Death" and "The Pines are murmuring above the grave" were first published in the Belarusian newspaper "Litaratura i Mastactva" (Literature and Art) - both articles are reproduced in the following.
		The articles include numerous reports by witnesses of the tragedy, they report about the archaeological excavations carried out by the authors themselves at the place where the victims were buried, and they draw conclusions about the significance of this tragedy.
	www.belarusguide.com /as/law_pol/disas.html (209 words)

	Belarusian Popular Front News : December 2001: VII Congress
		Kurapaty has been a matter of public knowledge for 13 years, but the authorities have done nothing to make the site a place of order and respect.
		The civic initiative in defence of Kurapaty has demanded that the state publish the truth concerning the conclusions of the latest investigation into the Kurapaty case, to provide guarantees that Kurapaty will become a memorial, not to allow the destruction of graves during the construction works.
		The BPF "Adradzennie" supports the activities of initiatives in defence of Kurapaty and appeals to the citizens of Belarus to take part in the erection of a national memorial there.
	pages.prodigy.net /dr_fission/bpf/news2001f.htm (2162 words)

	News. Kurapaty: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the end of 2005 they threw it on the ground and stained with red paint.
		district department of internal affairs brought a criminal case on the facts of vandalism in Kurapaty.
		In the end of February the police suspended the case without having found the vandals.
	www.spring96.org /en/news/4690 (169 words)

	Belarus » Blog Archive » Past and Present Phantoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since 1988, democratic forces have marked the holiday with a march to Kurapaty Forest- a symbol of national tragedy, where Stalin’s NKVD executed several hundred thousand Belarusians, including the flower of the intelligentsia, in the 1930s.
		The organizers of the rally (the Conservative Democratic Party of Zianon Pazniak, one of the individuals who rediscovered and publicized the Kurapaty tragedy in the late 1980s) didn’t want to share the march’s leadership and stage with other democratic leaders.
		This entry was posted on Sunday, October 29th, 2006 at 10:33 pm and is filed under General.
	www.tolblogs.org /belarus/en/?p=277 (578 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Belarus Keeps Soviet Massacre Secret
		KURAPATY, Belarus - Maria Tolstik lets tears roll down her face as she recalls how for four years more than half a century ago her sleep was interrupted nightly by the sound of people being shot to death.
		In the late 1980s, archaeologists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences determined that the people buried in Kurapaty were killed with Soviet-made bullets fired from Soviet-manufactured guns, and the Belarussian Prosecutor General's Office officially confirmed in 1995 that the remains belong to victims of the NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB.
		Today, few Minsk residents know about Kurapaty - a patch of forest marked by a rotting, rain-washed wooden cross hidden among pine trees just beyond the capital's southern border.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=12935 (711 words)

	15. PERSECUTION OF KURAPATY DEFENDERS (MASS BURIAL PLACE OF THE VICTIMS OF STALINIST REGIME) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meanwhile, several groups of unknown people dressed as civilians were seen in Kurapaty combing the forest, though not approaching the Young Front activists’ camp; the Highway was closed by the traffic police.
		After she had learnt the reason for the student’s absence, the social teacher of the school that Chykalow goes to said his actions would be considered by the juvenile delinquents committee.
		About twenty people got from Kurapaty to the police station where the detainees had been taken with the intention to wait for the release of their friends.
	www.spring96.org /en/vcont/6/779 (4821 words)

	martyraloh.org - Kurapaty photo gallery
		--- Jews of Belarus installed a memorial stone in Kurapaty with inscription in Yiddish (and Belarusian).
		[4/17/2002] Валанцёры вывешваюць бел-чырвона-белы сьцяг --- Volunteers that guard Kurapaty are preparing the white-red-white flag
		All copyright belongs to ByMedia (photo.bymedia.net), and these photos can be copied and used only after you get written permission from the owners of the photos.
	www.martyraloh.org /kurapaty_gallery.asp (511 words)

	Kurapaty Defender Needs Blood Of 15 Donors :: Charter'97 :: News :: 30/04/2002
		A defender of Kurapaty Ales Poklad, who have received bad burns in a result of the fire in the volunteer’s tent, is still situated in the Republican Burns’ Center.
		During the arson three volunteers slept in the tent: Iryna Vyatkina, Vasil Parfianovich and Ales Poklad.
		A few days before the arson Kurapaty volunteers submitted a complaint to the Pubic Prosecutor’s office, where they informed about constant pressure, intimidation and attacks of the unknown on the defenders of Kurapaty.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2002/04/30/04 (229 words)

	[ ZUBR / BISON ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A ceremony dedicated to the re-opening of the memorial bench "From the people of the USA to the people of Belarus" was held in Kurapaty on January 15 by the US Embassy.
		Ambassador of the USA Michel Kozak and the deputy Minister of the Foreign Affairs Alyaxandar Sychou addressed the present.
		Mr.Kozak in his speech associated the fate of Kurapaty with the fate of development of democracy in our country.
	www.zubr-belarus.com /english/index.php?show=press102 (170 words)

	Belarus Project
		"This violence at Kurapaty was ordered by the same man who ordered the expansion of the Minsk Beltway, by Alexander Lukashenko," commented Maya Kleshtornaya, leader of the Martyrs of Belarus Society.
		Addressing the rally, Valery Buyval, one of the party's leaders, said that Lukashenko has increasingly clamped down on dissent and his government has downplayed the severity of Stalin's mass executions.
		A small granite memorial given by the United States to commemorate the victims was wrecked by vandals in July 2001.
	www.ilhr.org /ilhr/regional/belarus/updates/2001/45.htm (3016 words)

	People Fight For Kurapaty :: Charter'97 :: News :: 24/09/2001
		Two large crosses were raised in Kurapaty in front of the sign indicating the place.
		The construction works for expanding the ring road are still continued, and the traces of the bulldozers are seen by the largest Kurapaty’s cross and a memorial sign “For Belarus’s Martyrs” already.
		Soon a few more crosses are to appear there, to block the way to the places of the burial-ground of Stalin repressions’ victims.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2001/09/24/16 (236 words)

	Russian History Essays - Silence in the Soviet Era
		In Belarus, there is a place known as Kurapaty, a forest some kilometers away from the capital where ''enemies of the state'' were brought.
		Not only are the ruling authorities silent about the place and event, but they are also building a highway through Kurapaty, disregarding the sacredness of the place.
		I know how hard it is to speak up, but at the same time I realize that if more people were vocal about what happened to their neighbors and members of their families, many sacrifices would not have been made and the devastating machine could have been stopped.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=31405 (1010 words)

	NEWSBRIEFS (11/08/98)
		The same day, accord to the Associated Press, Ukraine's Agriculture Minister Borys Supykhanov complained that the country's farmers are increasingly reluctant to supply approximately 3.5 million tons of grain that they had pledged earlier in 1998 in exchange for seeds and machinery.
		The march took place on Commemoration of Ancestors Day, which officially is a national holiday in Belarus but has been deprived of its work-free status by the Lukashenka government.
		In a recent bid to downplay the scale of Stalinist repressions, Procurator General Aleh Bazhelka said no more than 7,000 people were buried in mass graves at Kurapaty, adding that there is no evidence they were Stalinist victims.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1998/459808.shtml (2253 words)

	Vandalisme à Kouropaty : déclaration conjointe de l'Union européenne et des Etats-Unis d'Amériques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The United States of America and the European Union deplore the recent wilful damage to the Kurapaty memorial complex.
		Unknown vandals carved a swastika onto a religious icon, knocked over or damaged at least a dozen crosses, and once again defaced the bench President Clinton dedicated in 1994.
		These crosses and the bench were placed in commemoration of the tens of thousands of innocent Belarusian victims of NKVD terror who were murdered at Kurapaty.
	www.ambafrance-by.org /article-imprim.php3?id_article=686 (146 words)

	TIME.com: Haunted By History's Horrors -- Apr. 10, 1989 -- Page 1
		For almost 50 years there were whispered stories about fl vans that drove every night into a fenced enclosure in the Kurapaty forest, about gunshots and screams waking villagers who lived nearby.
		Last July more skulls and bones were unearthed, along with paraphernalia of everyday life -- remnants of packed lunches, purses filled with kopecks -- indicating that the people had been snatched from their daily routines to be shot.
		It is not by chance that the excavation in Kurapaty and a search for other mass graves in the Minsk area and the Ukraine are occurring now.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,957413,00.html (880 words)

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