Фото: пресс-служба Лукашенко
Alyaksandr Lukashenka, appointing Dzmitry Hora as prosecutor general — who previously headed the Investigative Committee and worked in the KGB — instructed him to focus in his new position on what Lukashenka called “true human rights.”
“The bodies of the prosecutor’s office are intended to oversee the uniform and precise observance of laws in our country. This must be understood. We have somewhat worn out the thesis of human rights. It is not our fault. But true human rights… You must ensure that all this is implemented in Belarus. The right to work, to wages. The right to justice — every person has it here.
Therefore, based on real life and our legislation, it is necessary to see the true rights of our Belarusians. And not only Belarusians, but also those people who come to us. I have spoken about this many times in the context of migration,” Lukashenka said.
It should be noted that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not draw distinctions between different rights, as Alyaksandr Lukashenka is attempting to do. Alongside the right to work, it also enshrines the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to move freely and choose one’s residence within each state, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and others.
Among Lukashenka’s other instructions to the new prosecutor general are to turn the prosecutor’s office into a headquarters and take over part of the functions of the Security Council apparatus, to present a bill in the case of the alleged genocide, and to fight corruption — otherwise, he warned, there would be war.