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Families of Katyn victims to launch legal case (against Russia)
Radio Polonia ^ | 21.04.2006

Posted on 04/21/2006 12:56:52 PM PDT by lizol

Families of Katyñ victims to launch legal case

21.04.2006

Relatives of Polish officers – victims of the Katyn Forest Massacre in 1940 are to lodge a complaint against Russia before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Their lawyer has said that Russia’s failure to carry out a preliminary investigation to find those responsible for the murder is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties.

Russia’s military prosecutor closed the case recently, refusing to recognize the massacre as either a war crime or a crime against humanity. Some 22 thousand Poles were killed in April 1940 on the orders of Stalin.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: humanrights; katyn; poland; russia
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1 posted on 04/21/2006 12:56:55 PM PDT by lizol
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2 posted on 04/21/2006 12:57:35 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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I'm with the Israelis and these Poles on this issue - there is not, nor should there ever be, a statute of limitations on murder.


3 posted on 04/21/2006 1:21:12 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: lizol

good. Russia needs to face and acknowledge the horrors of Communism if they are not to repeat them.


4 posted on 04/21/2006 2:14:41 PM PDT by monday
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To: monday
After watching Putin lately, I am not sure that the horrible behavior is all communism.
Just like most bad behavior from Muslims has not a lot to do with Islam( spit).
People are who they are, sometimes ideology trails them, not the other way around Evil is what it is
5 posted on 04/21/2006 3:24:01 PM PDT by Roverman2K
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To: lizol

And what do they want ? Money ?


6 posted on 04/21/2006 5:02:00 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: vox_PL

They just want to punish the perpetrators of the crime, at least in moral aspects by making the cause present and well-known in the European media.==

Who are the "perpetrators of crime"? Stalin and Beria. DOes they both russians? No they are Georgians.
So what it all has to be with Russia? Maybe you should file suit against Georgia?


9 posted on 04/22/2006 5:14:32 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: vox_PL

Hitler was Austrian, however it is Germany who pay billion dollars of compensation for war crimes. ==

Hitler was ELECTED by germans on free election as head of goverment. Stalin wasn't elected by Russians.

Russia is a legal succesor of The Soviet Union and is fully responsible for the Soviet war crimes. ==

Who told you such nonsense?:) Really man you need to read something diffrent of russophobic propaganda:).

Russia isn't legal successor of Soviet Union. She just pays its debts for soviet abroad property. They say that the debts are lesser then abroad property. So Russia accepted them. That is all.


11 posted on 04/22/2006 5:59:56 AM PDT by RusIvan
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As Head of the Directorate of POW Affairs NKVD USSR, Petr Karpovich Soprunenko ==

Ok "Suprunenko" is ukranian given by name. So go ask Ukraine for him. Who else you want to know about?


12 posted on 04/22/2006 6:01:10 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: vox_PL

RUSSIANS WHO MURDERED POLISH OFFICERS IN KATYN==

Let see.

Stalin - ethnic georgian.
Beria - ethnic georgian.
Lazar Moiseevich KAGANOVICH - jew.
Mikhail Ivanovich KALININ - this bastard is russian I accept it.
Anastas Ivanovich MIKOYAN - armenian.
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich MOLOTOV - it is nickname. His real name is Skriabin. He is russian:(.
Kliment Yefremovich VOROSHILOV - ukranian.

2 Russians about of 7 bastards. Harly for ONLY Russia is responsible for Katyn.

BTW when Poland accept responcibility for 100 thousands Red army POWs who died in polish concentration camps? Seem like you do not see polish bastards.


15 posted on 04/22/2006 6:09:09 AM PDT by RusIvan
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Soprunienko is Russian and lives in Smolensk. He is still alive!!!==

May be you know his address? Fairy tales again.


16 posted on 04/22/2006 6:09:51 AM PDT by RusIvan
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!!! All countries in the world recognise Russia as a legal successor of the Soviet Union.!!!==

Yeah?:) Someone lied to you:).

"..The USSR collapsed in the early 1990s. Eleven of the twelve members of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed a declaration on December 21, 1991 agreeing that "Member states of the Commonwealth support Russia in taking over the USSR membership in the UN, including permanent membership in the Security Council. ..."

That is it. Russia will never accept on herself the wrongdoings of USSR.

Soviet Union was created by nonrussian international bolshevicks after 4 -years long Civil war. The war where polish guys Dzerzhinski and Menzhinskii crezted Soviet secret police.
WHy Poland doesn't accpet on herself the crimes commited by poles Dzerzhnskii and Menzhnskii? Thier mutual creation letter in 1940 executed polish officers.


17 posted on 04/22/2006 6:20:30 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: lizol
The Russians have never been made to admit 70 years of either 1) their stupidity and/or 2) their Evil, hence the current machinations of the Fascist Spook Pooty-poot and the rest of the sock-puppet POS's that seem to always rise to the top of the bowl in that country.

Bttt

18 posted on 04/22/2006 6:31:41 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!)
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BTW when Poland accept responcibility for 100 thousands Red army POWs who died in polish concentration camps?

When russia will provide a proof for that photo?

20 posted on 04/22/2006 2:47:38 PM PDT by twinself
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