The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is what we need

"I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!" - many people know this formula from detective novels and films. It is the court of justice that should elicit the truth and only the truth. The truth is far from being someone’s...

"I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!" - many people know this formula from detective novels and films. It is the court of justice that should elicit the truth and only the truth. The truth is far from being someone’s opinion, assumption, or supposition. The truth is what we can believe in when all doubts are dispelled. The presence of any doubts does not allow us to consider this or that statement to be true.

In a criminal trial, doubts are always treated in favor of the accused.

1. The legal investigation of the act of terrorism in the Minsk Metro causes a lot of doubts. All these doubts must be treated in favor of the accused of this act of terrorism, Kanavalau and Kavalyou.

2. The trial itself has caused not less doubts. Courts in Belarus are discredited by numerous examples of recent years. There is not a single trial for the events of 19 December 2010 that could be recognized as fair; none of them has found the truth.

3. The worst thing that can happen to courts is a loss of citizens’ trust. And now in Belarus this worst thing has happened: we have no grounds to trust Belarus’ courts. Mistrust to courts is expressed in the suspicion that courts can punish the innocent and leave crimes unpunished.

4. If there is no trust to courts, it is necessary to abstain from carrying out sentences of such courts, especially when it comes to the irreparable measure of punishment - the death penalty.

5. Death sentence execution can be postponed for two reasons: out of humanitarian considerations and because of numerous doubts.

6. Nevertheless, haste has been observed at all stages of this process: it all began with a surprisingly fast detention of the suspects and ended with a very hurried enforcement of the sentence.

7. All these allow us to draw the conclusion - it is not an execution! This is murder! Kanavalau and Kavalyou have been killed, but not executed.

Then, there is a natural question: who is going to benefit from such precipitance? What were Kanavalau and Kavalyou killed so fast for? And the answer arises by itself: they were killed to hide the witnesses and participants of the illegal process, the witnesses of the numerous infringements and official transgressions during the investigation and trial. They were killed to cover things up.

I do not insist that these statements of mine are true and that they contain nothing but the truth. These are only doubts. And these doubts are not only mine - they arise in the mind of any person who is able to reason and compare the facts.

And, nonetheless, I express my statements in sober earnest! These doubts should be dispelled, i.e. either confirmed, or denied.

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is what we need.

It is terrible and uncomfortable to live in the country where citizens cannot be sure that crime will be followed by inevitable punishment. While citizens are not sure of it, they feel defenseless before criminals; citizens live in fear.

It is terrible and uncomfortable to live in the country where innocent people are punished and executed. While citizens are not sure that retribution reaches not the innocent, but criminals, they live in fear. After all, the punishing machine of "justice" can descend upon any, even the most law-abiding citizen. And it does not depend at all on the citizen’s behavior and actions.

It is time for us to stop the legal lawlessness and arbitrariness in the country.

We must not live like this any longer!