Pavel Sharamet Murdered Two Years Ago. Colleagues and family paid tribute to the memory of Pavel

— Just the oth­er day some­body asked me about the most sig­nif­i­cant jour­nal­is­tic inves­ti­ga­tions in the his­to­ry of Belarus. The first thing that came to my mind was The Wild Hunt film by Pavel Sharam­et. They also did an excel­lent inves­ti­ga­tion piece togeth­er with Dzmit­ry Zavad­s­ki on the trans­paren­cy of the Belarus-Lithua­nia bor­der. These are the exam­ples of risky and high-qual­i­ty jour­nal­ism done by Pavel Sharam­et.

They show­case his courage and pro­fes­sion­al­ism. These traits made Pavel a well-known jour­nal­ist in Belarus, in Rus­sia, and in Ukraine. Pavel’s tal­ent drew a large num­ber of fans to him, but also a large num­ber of ene­mies, — said BAJ chair Andrei Bas­tunets dur­ing the com­mem­o­ra­tion meet­ing.

He said, Belaru­sian col­leagues would always remem­ber Pavel and are look­ing for­ward to the results of the inves­ti­ga­tion into the mur­der and pun­ish­ment of the per­pe­tra­tors.

— Pavel’s cause lives on. One can see this in new inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism projects, and, of course, in his web­site Belarus­Par­ti­san, which con­tin­ues to work, and has received the pres­ti­gious Free Media Award this year, — added Bas­tunets.

Pavel Sharam­et’s moth­er Liud­mi­la also took part in the meet­ing.

— Pavel said he would nev­er for­give the mur­der­ers of Dzi­ma Zavad­sky, and would nev­er stop search­ing for them. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, today we do not know the cir­cum­stances of both mur­ders, — Liud­mi­la Sharam­et said.

Promi­nent jour­nal­ist and broad­cast­er Pavel Sharam­et was killed in Kyiv on July 20, 2016. The jour­nal­ist is buried at the Paunochnya Ceme­tery in Min­sk.

In April this year a tomb­stone was installed on his grave.

Pho­to by Vol­ha Khvoin