The Polish soldier-defector Emil Chechko, who asked for asylum in Belarus, applied to the Hague Tribunal with a statement about the events with migrants on the Belarusian-Polish border.
The organization “Systemic Human Rights”, which represents the interests of Chechko in Belarus, prepared and sent a statement to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague with a request to initiate a criminal case under the article “On genocide and crimes against humanity“in relation to Poland and Lithuania.
Chechko is ready to testify in court that from June 9 to June 18, 2021, Polish border guards and military personnel shot up to 20 migrants daily on the Polish-Belarusian border.
“During the ten days of my participation in the executions, from 200 to 700 people could have been killed,” Chechko explained. RIA News. The first execution with his participation was committed on June 9, 2021.
“My colleague and I were ordered to kill two groups of people. After we shot the first group of migrants, a second group of migrants got out of the truck,” Chechko admitted.
According to him, the corpses were thrown into prepared pits. “My colleague claimed that one such pit could accommodate up to 72 people,” Chechko added.
The court in The Hague confirmed that it had received a statement from Chechko.