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IPN to begin its investigation to Katyń massacre

25th May 2004

The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) will launch an investigation into the Katyń crime at the beginning of August.

The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) will launch an investigation into the Katyń crime at the beginning of August. "More and more information we had no idea about is cropping up. We will do everything to explain the crime, which according to our law was genocide," said Leon Kieres, IPN's president. He added that "public expectations and honesty" are the reasons behind initiating an investigation. Katyń, where the Soviet NKVD murdered 25,000 Polish army officers, is a sensitive issue in Polish-Russian relations, as the Russians do not consider crimes committed in the USSR in the 1940s as genocide. The Russians are currently conducting their own investigation into the case, which is why IPN may have problems in gaining access to certain documents. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A3) E.B.
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