08-05-2021, 01:38 AM
Belarusian dissident Vitaly Shishov
italy Vasilyevich Shishov (Russian: Виталий Васильевич Шишов; 1995 – 2/3 August 2021), or Vital Vasilyevich Shyshou (Belarusian: Віталь Васільевіч Шышоў),[1] was a Belarusian activist. He was the head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, an organization which helps people escape repression in Belarus following the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. At the age of 26, Vitaly went missing from his home in Kyiv and was found dead, hanging from a tree in a park near where he lived.[2][3][/url]
Following the re-election of president [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko]Alexander Lukashenko in August 2020, who has been president of Belarus since 1994, Vitaly decided to leave Belarus. [4]
On 2 August 2021, Vitaly was reported missing in Kyiv by his partner after going for a run. By the next day, he was found hanged in a forested area of a park near his home.[5] Ukrainian police opened a criminal case into his death and would investigate whether it was a suicide or "premeditative murder meant to look like suicide." The head of Ukrainian police highlighted that his body has been found with abrasions and peeled skin in several places.[6]
Prior to his death by a week, Shishov helped in organizing a rally in Kyiv that marked the 31st anniversary of Belarus's independence from the Soviet Union.[2] Shishov had received threats as well as the Belarusian House in Ukraine. "(...) Ukrainian security officers and police had privately warned the BHU about threats to activists. 'They said we should watch ourselves because a Belarusian KGB [secret police] network was active here' (...) 'We were warned repeatedly by local sources and our people in Belarus about possible provocations, going as far as kidnapping and assassination. Vitaly reacted to those warnings with stoicism and humour.' "[3]
(Yes, Belarus' secret police is still called the KGB, and this KGB may be even more ruthless and dangerous than the Soviet version.
italy Vasilyevich Shishov (Russian: Виталий Васильевич Шишов; 1995 – 2/3 August 2021), or Vital Vasilyevich Shyshou (Belarusian: Віталь Васільевіч Шышоў),[1] was a Belarusian activist. He was the head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, an organization which helps people escape repression in Belarus following the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. At the age of 26, Vitaly went missing from his home in Kyiv and was found dead, hanging from a tree in a park near where he lived.[2][3][/url]
Following the re-election of president [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko]Alexander Lukashenko in August 2020, who has been president of Belarus since 1994, Vitaly decided to leave Belarus. [4]
On 2 August 2021, Vitaly was reported missing in Kyiv by his partner after going for a run. By the next day, he was found hanged in a forested area of a park near his home.[5] Ukrainian police opened a criminal case into his death and would investigate whether it was a suicide or "premeditative murder meant to look like suicide." The head of Ukrainian police highlighted that his body has been found with abrasions and peeled skin in several places.[6]
Prior to his death by a week, Shishov helped in organizing a rally in Kyiv that marked the 31st anniversary of Belarus's independence from the Soviet Union.[2] Shishov had received threats as well as the Belarusian House in Ukraine. "(...) Ukrainian security officers and police had privately warned the BHU about threats to activists. 'They said we should watch ourselves because a Belarusian KGB [secret police] network was active here' (...) 'We were warned repeatedly by local sources and our people in Belarus about possible provocations, going as far as kidnapping and assassination. Vitaly reacted to those warnings with stoicism and humour.' "[3]
(Yes, Belarus' secret police is still called the KGB, and this KGB may be even more ruthless and dangerous than the Soviet version.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.