Civil society activists
held a ceremony in the village of Drazhna near Staryya Darohi, Minsk region, on April 15 to commemorate
peaceful villagers massacred there by Soviet partisans during World War II, BelaPAN reported. Participants visited the
village cemetery to light candles and lay flowers at the graves of the victims.
They also commemorated
the Soviet partisans who had been killed in a combat with a nearby garrison of
Nazi police collaborators shortly before the massacre.
A round-table discussion on the role of the partisans was held in Minsk on April 15 and the
trip to Drazhna was its continuation, the agency quoted Uladzimir Ramanouski, an
activist of the Belarusian Voluntary Society for Historical and Cultural
Heritage Protection, as saying.