The remains of Polish officers, victims of Katyn crime, exhumed from collective graves and examined by the IPN will be buried in the Polish Army Department. Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Maciej Żywno, Deputy Marshal of the legislature informed about this. The burial date is not yet known. It is considered September 17.
– The Polish Army remembers its officers, the elite of the Polish nation, murdered 85 years ago in Katyń forests. The Polish state remembers those who gave their lives for surviving in a free country present – said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz during a press conference at the Defence Ministry in Warsaw. The head of the MON reported that a burial of remains was planned victims murdered by the NKVD and exhumed from the collective graves in 1943–2000 and investigated in the framework of the investigation into the Katyn crime. The investigation was conducted by the Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish National Institute of National Memory.
He agreed to bury in the Cathedral he issued an IPN. Maciej Alivo, Vice Marshal of the Senate, called for this a while ago. As he said at the conference, the Katyń household Association asked for support in this case. “The families of the victims want to close down a period of trauma and mourning after officers murdered in Katyń,” the Vice Marshal of the legislature stated. He emphasized that for many years all possible examination of the remains had been done and so they could be buried with dignity without harming the investigation. – There are 12 skulls from exhumation works conducted in 1991 in Kharkov. However, the final number of remains will be given to the IPN," said the Deputy Marshal.
The place of burial of Polish officers is to be the Polish Military Department in Warsaw. – This place is very worthy to make this burial. It will be possible to honor and honor the murdered," said Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamish. He besides assured that the military would engage in the celebration. – We will work together with Katyn families, with representatives of different environments, with institutions of the Polish state specified as the IPN or the President's Office. We are open to cooperation on the issue of Polish memory policy – the Minister of Defence assured.
The burial date is not yet known. Depends on the IPN decision. It may be September 17, anniversary of russian aggression against Poland in 1939.
This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Katyn crime. In the spring of 1940, more than 14,400 officers were shot by orders of the highest authorities of the USSR. troops, police and another uniformed services held in camps in Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostashkov. Prisoners and prisoners were taken to places where they were shot in the back of the head and buried in mass graves.
