Łukasz Jasina made the statement in an interview with the state news agency PAP on Monday.
It came in the wake of reports that the graves of Poland’s World War II Home Army soldiers in the northwestern Belarusian town of Plebanishki, near Grodno, had been desecrated.
Jasina told PAP: “We are looking into the matter. Sadly the dictator Alexander Lukashenko continues to victimise Polish people, both dead and alive.”
The independent Belarusian website Mostmedia.io reported that the damaged burial site in Plebanishki housed the remains of four Home Army soldiers, three men and a woman, who had been killed in a skirmish with Nazi Germans in 1943.
Their bodies were found and buried by the locals and in the 1990s a cross was erected beside the collective grave, the Belarusian outlet said.
Vandalism against Polish memorial sites in Belarus
Earlier, graves and memorial sites for Polish soldiers were razed to the ground in several western Belarusian towns and villages, including Mikulishki, Vawkavysk and Surkonty, the PAP news agency reported.
Poland’s foreign ministry condemned the vandalisation of the Mikulishki cemetery as “an inexplicable, unprecedented act of bestiality and an incomprehensible violation of Poland’s and Belarus’ mutual obligations as regards the protection of memorial sites.”
The Belarusian foreign ministry responded by saying there were “no registered burial sites” in Mikulishki, PAP reported at the time.
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Source: PAP, interia.pl