[News] Belarus searches in Chile for war criminals from Latvia who collaborated with the Nazis

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The information is contained in an international warrant sent by that country and processed by the Supreme Court in the strictest confidence. In the letter rogatory - published by El Mostrador - there are six identities that would have belonged to the Latvian Legion of the SS, an elite unit of Adolf Hitler's regime. The highest court granted the request and it is the PDI that carries out the procedures to determine if they are in Chile, whether alive or dead.

The Belarusian prosecutor's office is searching in Chile for war criminals of Latvian nationality who collaborated with the Nazis and murdered men, women and children in that republic of the former Soviet Union during World War II.

The information is contained in a letter sent to the International Cooperation and Extraditions Unit of the National Prosecutor's Office, which in turn was sent to the Supreme Court for processing.

The letter rogatory - which El Mostrador publishes in its entirety - details the identities of six subjects (which this medium reserves), who would have participated in shootings, torture, beheadings - among other inhuman behaviors - fleeing to Chile, as part of the exodus to South America of war criminals and collaborators of the German regime led by Adolf Hitler.

Read the international exhortation here
The substantiation of the request has been kept under strict secrecy in the highest court and was referred to the PDI to establish whether the former Latvian members of the SS continue to live in the country or have died.

 

 

Read the entire exhortation
According to the content of the petition, the data emerged in an investigation carried out by the Institute of Russian History published in 2022. It is titled: “The last chance for justice, foundations of the legal persecution of Nazi criminals in Latvia.”

In the text, an academic questioned a witness on March 23 of the same year, identified as “Selyukina,” who “identified the living soldiers of the Latvian SS Legion, presumably currently residing in the Republic of Chile.” The testimony, points out the Belarusian prosecutor's office, was recognized as “material evidence” of the deaths of more than 3 million people.

Dead land
The facts of the foreign investigation into genocide point, among others, to the extermination operation known as “Black Magic”, which occurred between February and March 1943 in the territories of the USSR and Belarus. Its objective, the letter details, was to create a “dead land”, that is, a territory in which the po[CENSORED]tion was excluded from living in a strip 30 to 40 kilometers wide along the border with Latvia.

“Many murders were committed by barbaric methods, which involved special torture and torment of citizens. Entire families were murdered in this way,” describes the Belarusian prosecutor's office.

One of the several facts cited points to the village of Beliany, where “an 8-year-old boy was cut with a knife in the chest and back (…) after which he was thrown into the fire.”

 

https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2023/10/15/bielorrusia-busca-en-chile-a-criminales-de-guerra-de-letonia-que-colaboraron-con-los-nazis/