Anniversary of the genocide, Volyn July 11, 1943, Wrocław, POLAND

            The inscription on the monument "If I will forget Them, You, God in heaven, forget about me."-  Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ( 24 December 1798 – 26 November 1855)   Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist. 

The Volhynian,  massacres, were anti-Polish genocidal ethnic cleansings conducted by Ukrainian nationalists. 
The massacres took place within Poland’s borders as of the outbreak of WWII, and not only in Volhynia, but also in other areas with a mixed Polish-Ukrainian population, especially the Lvov, Tarnopol, and Stanisławów voivodeships (that is, in Eastern Galicia), as well as in some voivodeships bordering on Volhynia (the western part of the Lublin Voivodeship and the northern part of the Polesie Voivodeship. The time frame of these massacres was 1943-1945. The perpetrators were the Organization
 of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera faction (OUN-B) and its military wing, 
called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
 Their documents show that the planned extermination of the Polish population was called an “anti-Polish  operation.” 

Criminal Investigations
Genocide is a legal category. The Volhynian massacres have all the traits of genocide listed in the 1948 
UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which defines genocide
 as an act “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,
 as such.” In Polish academia the Volhynian massacres are referred to as genocidal ethnic cleansings, 
the Volhynian (or Volhynian-Galician) slaughter, or, in legal terminology, the crime of genocide. 

Polish historians are emphasizing that the Volhynian bloodbath is the uncleared crime of genocide still, and praise of Stepan Bandera and  members murderous party of OUN-UPA by the current Ukrainian authorities.



   

Taken on: July 10, 2016

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