BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

18/03/2010

Belarusian Katyn list found?

Katyn

Russia's PM Vladimir Putin is to present Poland's Donald Tusk with the so-called Belarusian Katyn list when the two meet for the commemoration at Katyn on April 7.

This would help determine the fate of some four thousand Polish citizens out of more than 7300 arrested on lands which after 1939 were incorporated into Soviet Ukraine and Belarus.

Moscow is said to be searching for the list in the archives of the FSB security service, which inherited the files of the KGB and NKVD.

Researchers say that the NKVD was very well organized and any traces of the fate of the Poles should be found in Russian archives. However, it is possible for such documents to be either in Moscow or still in Kiev, although after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian services removed files from the republics to Moscow.

Representatives of the families of the victims of the massacre from the Belarusian Katyn list say they have waited long for such a gesture. It is still not known where some six thousand from the list are buried. (ek)

Source: Gazeta Wyborcza

Source:

http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul127733_belarusian-katyn-list-found.html


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