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 Russias 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.
Russias 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.
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.
good. Russia needs to face and acknowledge the horrors of Communism if they are not to repeat them.
And what do they want ? Money ?
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?
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.
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?
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.
Soprunienko is Russian and lives in Smolensk. He is still alive!!!==
May be you know his address? Fairy tales again.
!!! 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.
Bttt
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