Shock, awe, and disbelief. Even in Belarus, where rights activists say President Alexander Lukashenko has employed brutal tactics to quash opponents and maintain power for a quarter-century, a fresh claim that a death squad that eliminated perceived foes of the authoritarian leader two decades ago have led jaws to drop.
RFE/RL: Belarus death squad?
Opposition activists hold portraits of missing people during a rally in front of the KGB state security committee headquarters in Minsk on Nov. 7, 2016. Five prominent individuals: former interior minister Yuri Zakharenko, politicians Viktor Gonchar and Gennady Karpenko, businessman Anatoli Krasovsky and cameraman Dmitry Zavadsky, all opposed to the Lukashenko regime have disappeared since 1999.
