Poland to sue Russia over Gulag victims
The Polish Union of the Victims of Repressions has announced planns to summon Russia to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg and to demand compensation to the Polish victims of the Soviet Gulag, a system of labor and concentration camps in the Communist Russia. The Union's represnetatives said that after the World War II the Soviet authorities forcefully deported a million people to Siberia. Only 60,000 of them have currently survived, receiving $100 compensation from the Polish government.
Dozens of thousands of Belarusians were among those deported from the territories of the Western Belarus, which part of Poland before 1939. In March 2005, the Polish parliament sent a note to the Russian government, demanding to treate the 1940 execution of Polish officers in the woods near the village of Katyn as genocide.
This was the first attempt to raise the issue of the killed Poles in the USSR, writes Novye Izvestia newspaper.
Dozens of thousands of Belarusians were among those deported from the territories of the Western Belarus, which part of Poland before 1939. In March 2005, the Polish parliament sent a note to the Russian government, demanding to treate the 1940 execution of Polish officers in the woods near the village of Katyn as genocide.
This was the first attempt to raise the issue of the killed Poles in the USSR, writes Novye Izvestia newspaper.
