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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Former Belarusian operative under Lukashenko goes on Swiss trial over enforced disappearances

' KEYSTONE / Gian Ehrenzeller

A former member of Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces was going on trial Tuesday in Switzerland over the enforced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s — seen as a landmark case of international justice.

Yuri Harauski, a former member of a military unit known as SOBR, exited a tinted-window van wearing a hood as he entered the courthouse in the northern city of St. Gallen.

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