Belarus KGB Spies a Threat in Lithuania
Belarus KGB has spotted in the neighboring Lithuania bases of oppositionists ready to act during presidential elections in Belarus, said Viktor Vigera, deputy head of the KGB, preferring not to elaborate on definite whereabouts of the camps.
“The young people of Belarus, including under age, were delivered to a NATO base in Lithuania. And they were trained in shooting there,” Vigera said Friday, adding young oppositionists were in Vilnius November 9-11, attending a seminar.
“There were attempts to transfer militant camps to Belarus past summer,” deputy head of Belarus KGB specified. “Back in Belarus, those persons tried to arrange similar camps in the Vileisky district, near the towns of Osipovichi and Lunenets. But those attempts were terminated by enforcement bodies,” Vigera said quite sure abroad training of militant oppositionists has long been underway.
As to the Belarus opposition, they say the authorities are intentionally scaring the society, the more so that no evidence has been provided. “I know the people who went to the seminar mentioned by Viktor Vigera. They discussed the situation in Belarus; military actions were out of the question,” said Alexey Shidlovsky from Zubr organization of oppositional youth.
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