Karol Polejowski – Vice president of the Institute of National Memory at the gathering of the legislature Committee on Human Rights and the Law of Law stated that there was no breakthrough on the exhumation of victims of the Volynský Crimes.
He recalled that the IPN had filed 26 requests for exhumations, 1 of which was examined, concerning works in Lviv-Zboiski, related to the remains of soldiers of the Polish Army who died in September 1939 in defence of Lviv. He pointed out that the Ukrainian party's consent to the exhumation work in Puźniki, which was issued at the request of the Polish Foundation Freedom and Democracy, was “partial only, for 1 grave”, “And we know that there is simply a second grave with a akin number of victims,” he added. At least a 100 Poles murdered UPA in Puźniki. 42 people, including at least 16 women and 11 children and adolescents under the age of 18, were found at the first bottom of the death. The coffins and crosses under the force of the Ukrainians did not identify the perpetrators of the crimes.
Vice-President Polajowski stressed that the IPN does not agree with symmetrism in the treatment of victims. Unfortunately, in exchange for burials of innocent victims of genocide in Ukraine, Polish government authorities agreed to renovate monuments of thugs from UPA. This is simply a immense and shameful mistake, which means gathering the fundamental goal of the Ukrainian side, namely bringing about symmetry. And this is not a symmetry, due to the fact that in Poland there are bandits from UPA, who died in the fight against arms in clashes with the Polish army, and on the another side women, children, cruelly murdered and defenceless. Paweł Kowal, a tireless exponent of banner interests in Poland, called the expositions in Puźniki "a breakthrough event" in Polish-Ukrainian relations. The blacksmith belongs to those politicians and publicists who consciously support a policy of manipulation and forgetting. They relativize and justify the Ukrainian authorities in bringing murderers to their memorials and avoiding a full settlement with the criminal past. In the name of expected reconciliation, they cover the line between the executioner and the victim. The forgery of memory became their common vocation and enterprise. Their activities desecrate the memory of victims of the Volyn genocide. As long as Poland remains silent and its politicians kneel before false symmetry, the victims will stay in the pits of death, and the executioners – on pedestals.
Leszek Miller
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