People send letters and postcards of support to Liubou Kavaliova
In the middle of March there turned a
year since the execution of death convicts Uladzislau Kavaliou and
Dzmitry Kanavalau. These days Uladzislau's mother Liudmila Kavaliova
has received many letters and postcards from the people who don't
believe her son is guilty and think that the trial was unfair and the
verdict to the Vitsebsk boys was groundlessly severe.
Postcards
and letters keep coming from various countries. Among them, there are
letters from human rights organization "Amnesty International",
from ordinary Belarusians and foreign citizens. Those who writes to
Uladzislau's mother and sister wish them spiritual strength and
express the hope that the case of the explosion in Minsk metro will
receive a fair trial in the future and, the real protractors will be
punished and the innocent will be justified.
Liubou Kavaliova
recollects that she saw her son for the last time on 11 March 2012.
Her daughter and she were urgently summonsed to the KGB remand prison
that day. The prison administration didn't agree to delay the meeting
for one day and the prison workers were expressly polite with the
visitors during the meeting. This is one of the reasons Liubou
Kavaliova has to think that the convicts were shot dead not on 15
March, as written in the official notice, but earlier, may be even on
the day of the last meeting...
Liubou Kavaliova has repeatedly
addressed the Belarusian authorities, asking to be issued with the
body of her son, whom she considers as groundlessly accused and
punished, or to be shown the place of his burial. However, she
received only formal replies with references to the norms of the
Belarusian legislation which prohibited such actions.
L.
Kavaliova is sure that such secrecy is plainly inhumane.
"Earlier
they mocked at Uladzislau, beating him so that he would give the
necessary testimonies. Now they are torturing me. I think that it is
totally necessary to make them give me the son's body, and also
abolish the death penalty, as it is irreversible – nothing can be
changed even if some evidence of the man's innocences is found...
Moreover, Uladzislau's last will remains unimplemented: he asked me
to preserve the records he kept during the trial at the remand prison
of the KGB. However, the yellow file where he kept these records, was
sent to us empty after his execution. I don't know who hides these
records and what for. They disappeared somewhere in the KGB prison,
as well as the powers of attorney that were to have been signed by
the administration. If it was done, I would have been able to do much
more on behalf of my son, but I wasn't allowed to do it."
On
10 December 2012 Belarusian human rights defenders declared Liubou
Kavaliova the human rights defender of the year for her selfless
struggle for the son's good name. She was also declared "Person
of the year 2012 in Vitsebsk" as a result of the voting at
"People's News of Vitsebsk" website.
