Sejm pays tribute to murdered Poles at 60th anniversary of Katyn massacre

Yesterday, the Sejm paid tribute to the 22,000 Poles murdered by Soviet security forces (NKVD) at Katyn on its 60th anniversary. The Sejm stated that those to be blamed have yet to be punished and emphasized that revealing the whole truth about the massacre will contribute to improved relations between Poland and Russia. Father Zdzislaw Peszkowski criticized the statement saying it lacked "a clear statement that mass murders in Katyn, Miednoje, Kuropaty and other places were proof of a common Soviet-German decision to exterminate the Polish nation. In the meantime, Russia's deputy prosecutor general Stefan Sniezko announced that the Russian prosecutor's office will probably discontinue the investigation as there's no one alive to be tried. (Zycie, page 3) A.Z.