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The Supreme Court has issued another verdict in a genocide case, its fifth such decision.
According to the court’s press service, the deceased Alyaksandr Yarmolchyk, who died in 1984, was found guilty of genocide (Article 127 of the Criminal Code). Verdicts in such cases are issued without sentencing.
During the Second World War, Yarmolchyk served as a member and later as the head of the Khoyniki unit of the auxiliary police. The indictment stated that he “deliberately took the lives of at least 246 people, including at least 37 children, and attempted to take the lives of at least eight more people.”
Earlier verdicts in similar cases were issued against the deceased Vladimir Katryuk, Konstantin Smovsky, Semyon Serafimovich and Osip Vinnitsky.