The Partyja BPF (Belarusian Popular Front) was established in 1988 as a political party and cultural movement for democracy and independence, à la the Baltic republics’ popular fronts. The discovery of mass graves in <answer>Kurapaty</answer> outside Minsk by historian Zianon Pazniak, the Belarusian Popular Front’s first leader, gave additional momentum to the pro-democracy and pro-independence movement in Belarus. It claimed that the NKVD performed secret killings in <answer>Kurapaty</answer>. Initially the Front had significant visibility because its numerous public actions almost always ended in clashes with the police and the KGB.
Where were the graves found?
Kurapaty