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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:05 administrator    .
September 15, 2011, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.


On the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the Soviet aggression on Poland,
an important conference took place on the Capitol Hill in Washington,
DC.  The conference entitled "Katyń - Unfinished Inquiry" was co-
sponsored by fifteen civic and academic organizations from all over
the United States, including representatives of the Katyń families and
Siberian deportees such as  the Katyń Forest Massacre Memorial
Committee of New Jersey, Kresy-Siberia Foundation USA, National Katyń
Memorial Foundation of Maryland, Polish Legacy Project of Buffalo, New
York, Siberian Society USA, Siberian Society of Florida, the Poles of
Santa Rosa in Chicago, the Polish Army Veterans Association in America
and the Polish American Congress.  The conference was co-organized by
Libra Institute and the Institute of World Politics with the support
of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.



While commemorating the Polish victims of the Soviet aggression of
September 17, 1939, the participants deliberated how to achieve
healing of the wounds and genuine reconciliation between the people of
Russia and Poland in the twenty first century.  The participants
acknowledged that the path to reconciliation leads through revealing
the full truth.

Professor David Crane who served as Chief Prosecutor of the Special
Court for Sierra Leone presented Expert Report from the Katyń
Symposium that took place at Case Western Reserve School of Law in
February 2011.  Referring to the Expert Report, he pointed out that
genuine reconciliation must be built on truthful accountability
through full disclosure, atonement, contrition and compensation. He
also stated that although various experts offer different
classifications of the Katyń crime, according to him Katyń qualified
as genocide.  Prof. Crane also stated that the United States should
consider forwarding the evidence, findings and recommendations of the
Madden Committee to the General Assembly of the United Nations with
the recommendations that the United Nations take appropriate steps to
have the case forwarded to the International Court of Justice and/or
seek the establishment of the international commission that will
investigate this case. The other ways in which the United States could
assist in seeking justice for the Katyń crime would be the full
disclosure of documents related to Katyń that are in the possession of
the US Government and adopting legislation that would recognize the
wrong that has been done by the United States as a result of the
suppression of evidence. The United States should also consider
issuing an apology to the Katyń victims and the Polish people,
providing compensation to the Katyń families who are US citizens
either directly or through the establishment of the Katyń Truth and
Reconciliation Institute, and sponsoring the educational outreach
program on the Katyń crime and the cover-up.


Dr. John Lenczowski, President of the Institute of World Politics, in
his opening remarks pointed out that the Katyń crime aimed at
eliminating the leadership class of Poland.  He criticized the Russian
anti-Katyń strategy by pointing out that the Soviet soldiers taken as
prisoners of war by Poland as a result of the 1920 Polish-Russian War
represented the invading army and died of communicable diseases.  He
also elaborated on the role of the US Government in covering up the
Katyń crime and suppressing all Katyń related information, including
the destruction of the key eyewitness reports by the top US Military
Intelligence Officer, in order not to upset Moscow.   He pointed out
that the key Katyń-related documents have never been released by the
US Government.  Apparently, there is never a good time to do so,
especially when the USA aims at resetting relations with Russia.

Frank Spula, President of the Polish-American Congress, spoke about
the significance of the Katyń crime for the Polish-American
community.  He stated that he was honored to be in this congressional
office building and participate in such a historical event, especially
considering that this building was named after Sam Rayburn who
initiated the original investigation into the Katyń crime sixty years
ago.  Back then Roman Pucinski, the Chief Investigator of the Madden
Committee led the struggle for truth and justice. Today his daughter,
Aurelia Pucinski, came to this congressional building to continue her
father's struggle for justice.  Katyń has a special significance to
the Americans of Polish heritage.  It also has a distinct personal
meaning to President Spula, who was invited to fly to Katyń with
President Lech Kaczynski on April 10, 2010.  He is still with us
because he was unable to accept this invitation.  President Spula
pointed out that the Katyń crime has the same importance to the Polish
community as the Holocaust has to the Jewish community.



The appearance on the Capitol Hill of the daughter of Roman Pucinski -
Honorable Aurelia Pucinski - sixty years after the issuance of the
Madden Committee Final Report was of painfully symbolic significance.
The world shall wonder whether the lack of resolve of the US Congress
to act on the 1952 recommendations of the Madden Committee brought
back the cry for justice for the Katyń victims to the Capitol Hill
sixty years later.  Honorable Aurelia Pucinski discussed her father's
struggle with the bureaucrats of the US and British governments who
for reasons of political expediency and short term gains purposely and
deliberately suppressed all evidence of the Soviet guilt in the Katyń
crime.  In her remarks, Honorable Aurelia Pucinski stated that the
execution of the Polish officers in the Katyń forest and other
locations throughout the Soviet Union constitute the most brutal act
of genocide against the leadership of the nation ever recorded in
history.

John Van Oudenaren, Director of the World Digital Library at the
Library of Congress reported on the UNESCO Declaration adopted on May
21, 2011 in Warsaw ("Warsaw Declaration") on the protection of
documentary heritage with respect to culture, memory and identity of
the world.  He expressed his willingness to work with the Polish-
American community along the lines of the spirit of the Warsaw
Declaration with respect to Katyń documentary heritage.



Three members of the 112th US Congress made their appearance at the
Katyń conference. Senator Mark Kirk was honored by the Illinois
Division of the Polish-American Congress with the 2011 Roman Pucinski
Award for Outstanding Leadership by undertaking legislative initiative
for the inclusion of Poland in the visa waiver program and for
supporting the strengthening of the defensive alliance between Poland
and the United States.  Senator Kirk declared that he would work to
assure that Poland remains free, independent, peaceful, and an
integral member of the Western Alliance.

The Roman Pucinski Award was established in honor of Representative
Roman Pucinski (1919-2002) for his unyielding courage and
determination to seek truth and justice for the Katyń victims. Roman
Pucinski served as the Chief Investigator of the Special Congressional
Committee for the Katyń Forest Massacre. In spite of great political
pressure, Roman Pucinski led the congressional investigation into the
Katyń Forest Massacre with the highest professional standards, open-
mindedness, fairness and impeccable objectivity.  Through the Roman
Pucinski Leadership Award, the PAC Illinois desires to encourage
political leaders to follow the highest professional standards in
public service as set forth by Honorable Roman Pucinski.



Representative Dennis Kucinich in his remarks pointed out that Poland
shall serve as an example that the cruel history can be overcome.  He
discussed the ways in which the United States can help in healing the
wounds of the Katyń crime.  Referring to the resolution of the Russian
Duma of November 2010, he emphasized that Russia must face its past
and the United States can play a constructive role in this process. He
also declared his support for the efforts to commemorate the lives of
twenty two thousand Polish officers murdered by the Soviets and to
find a meaningful path towards healing the heard of Poland over this
gravest assault on humanity. Representative Dennis Kucinich was
presented with the Honorary Membership in the National Katyń Memorial
Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland, by the Foundation Chairman -
Richard Poremski.  Foundation Director Carla Tomaszewski presented
Congressman Kucinich with eight drawings of the National Katyń
Memorial Monument.

Representative Marcy Kaptur, who was the congressional sponsor of this
conference, was honored with the Congressional Leadership Award by the
Ohio Division of the Polish-American Congress.  Congresswoman Marcy
Kaptur from Toledo, Ohio, is the most senior democratic woman in the
House of Representatives of the 112th US Congress.  In her remarks
Honorable Marcy Kaptur pointed underscored the persevering nature of
the Polish people.  This quality of perseverance is demonstrated by
the fact that today in the 112th US Congress the most senior
congressman in the House of Representatives is Representative John
Dingell of Polish heritage, she, herself of the Polish heritage, is
the most senior Democratic Congresswoman, and the most senior female
senator is Senator Barbara Mikulski also of Polish heritage.
Honorable Kaptur also pointed out that the history of World War II
remains incomplete.  Regrettably, the stories of the Polish veterans
of World War II to this day are not properly told either in Poland or
in the United States.



The closing remarks belonged to Wesley Adamczyk, Son of the Polish
Officer held in Starobielsk, murdered in Kharkov, and buried in the
Piatichatki forest. In June of 1989, after nearly six decades of
searching for his father, Adamczyk together with his son was finally
able to pay last respect to his father at the Piatichatki cemetery.
Upon leaving the cemetery, Adamczyk appealed to his son to never
forget that the truth always comes out despite the grinding of the
bones and planting of the trees over the graves. Adamczyk stressed
that the conspiracy of silence was born at the London meeting where
the Big Four victorious powers allowed the Soviets to handle the
prosecution of the Katyń crime, knowing that all arrows pointed to the
Soviet guilt.  The Western Allies won the war but justice for the
victims of Katyń was never sought or achieved.  Adamczyk appealed to
the Government of the United State to undertake pro-active steps
towards full disclosure and dissemination of all documents related to
the Katyń atrocity in the possession of the US Government.

Maria Szonert, Esq.

President

Libra Institute, Inc.

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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:05 administrator    .
September 15, 2011, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

On the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the Soviet aggression on Poland,
an important conference took place on the Capitol Hill in Washington,
DC.  The conference entitled "Katyń - Unfinished Inquiry" was co-
sponsored by fifteen civic and academic organizations from all over
the United States, including representatives of the Katyń families and
Siberian deportees such as  the Katyń Forest Massacre Memorial
Committee of New Jersey, Kresy-Siberia Foundation USA, National Katyń
Memorial Foundation of Maryland, Polish Legacy Project of Buffalo, New
York, Siberian Society USA, Siberian Society of Florida, the Poles of
Santa Rosa in Chicago, the Polish Army Veterans Association in America
and the Polish American Congress.  The conference was co-organized by
Libra Institute and the Institute of World Politics with the support
of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.

While commemorating the Polish victims of the Soviet aggression of
September 17, 1939, the participants deliberated how to achieve
healing of the wounds and genuine reconciliation between the people of
Russia and Poland in the twenty first century.  The participants
acknowledged that the path to reconciliation leads through revealing
the full truth.

Professor David Crane who served as Chief Prosecutor of the Special
Court for Sierra Leone presented Expert Report from the Katyń
Symposium that took place at Case Western Reserve School of Law in
February 2011.  Referring to the Expert Report, he pointed out that
genuine reconciliation must be built on truthful accountability
through full disclosure, atonement, contrition and compensation. He
also stated that although various experts offer different
classifications of the Katyń crime, according to him Katyń qualified
as genocide.  Prof. Crane also stated that the United States should
consider forwarding the evidence, findings and recommendations of the
Madden Committee to the General Assembly of the United Nations with
the recommendations that the United Nations take appropriate steps to
have the case forwarded to the International Court of Justice and/or
seek the establishment of the international commission that will
investigate this case. The other ways in which the United States could
assist in seeking justice for the Katyń crime would be the full
disclosure of documents related to Katyń that are in the possession of
the US Government and adopting legislation that would recognize the
wrong that has been done by the United States as a result of the
suppression of evidence. The United States should also consider
issuing an apology to the Katyń victims and the Polish people,
providing compensation to the Katyń families who are US citizens
either directly or through the establishment of the Katyń Truth and
Reconciliation Institute, and sponsoring the educational outreach
program on the Katyń crime and the cover-up.

Dr. John Lenczowski, President of the Institute of World Politics, in
his opening remarks pointed out that the Katyń crime aimed at
eliminating the leadership class of Poland.  He criticized the Russian
anti-Katyń strategy by pointing out that the Soviet soldiers taken as
prisoners of war by Poland as a result of the 1920 Polish-Russian War
represented the invading army and died of communicable diseases.  He
also elaborated on the role of the US Government in covering up the
Katyń crime and suppressing all Katyń related information, including
the destruction of the key eyewitness reports by the top US Military
Intelligence Officer, in order not to upset Moscow.   He pointed out
that the key Katyń-related documents have never been released by the
US Government.  Apparently, there is never a good time to do so,
especially when the USA aims at resetting relations with Russia.

Frank Spula, President of the Polish-American Congress, spoke about
the significance of the Katyń crime for the Polish-American
community.  He stated that he was honored to be in this congressional
office building and participate in such a historical event, especially
considering that this building was named after Sam Rayburn who
initiated the original investigation into the Katyń crime sixty years
ago.  Back then Roman Pucinski, the Chief Investigator of the Madden
Committee led the struggle for truth and justice. Today his daughter,
Aurelia Pucinski, came to this congressional building to continue her
father's struggle for justice.  Katyń has a special significance to
the Americans of Polish heritage.  It also has a distinct personal
meaning to President Spula, who was invited to fly to Katyń with
President Lech Kaczynski on April 10, 2010.  He is still with us
because he was unable to accept this invitation.  President Spula
pointed out that the Katyń crime has the same importance to the Polish
community as the Holocaust has to the Jewish community.

The appearance on the Capitol Hill of the daughter of Roman Pucinski -
Honorable Aurelia Pucinski - sixty years after the issuance of the
Madden Committee Final Report was of painfully symbolic significance.
The world shall wonder whether the lack of resolve of the US Congress
to act on the 1952 recommendations of the Madden Committee brought
back the cry for justice for the Katyń victims to the Capitol Hill
sixty years later.  Honorable Aurelia Pucinski discussed her father's
struggle with the bureaucrats of the US and British governments who
for reasons of political expediency and short term gains purposely and
deliberately suppressed all evidence of the Soviet guilt in the Katyń
crime.  In her remarks, Honorable Aurelia Pucinski stated that the
execution of the Polish officers in the Katyń forest and other
locations throughout the Soviet Union constitute the most brutal act
of genocide against the leadership of the nation ever recorded in
history.

John Van Oudenaren, Director of the World Digital Library at the
Library of Congress reported on the UNESCO Declaration adopted on May
21, 2011 in Warsaw ("Warsaw Declaration") on the protection of
documentary heritage with respect to culture, memory and identity of
the world.  He expressed his willingness to work with the Polish-
American community along the lines of the spirit of the Warsaw
Declaration with respect to Katyń documentary heritage.

Three members of the 112th US Congress made their appearance at the
Katyń conference. Senator Mark Kirk was honored by the Illinois
Division of the Polish-American Congress with the 2011 Roman Pucinski
Award for Outstanding Leadership by undertaking legislative initiative
for the inclusion of Poland in the visa waiver program and for
supporting the strengthening of the defensive alliance between Poland
and the United States.  Senator Kirk declared that he would work to
assure that Poland remains free, independent, peaceful, and an
integral member of the Western Alliance.

The Roman Pucinski Award was established in honor of Representative
Roman Pucinski (1919-2002) for his unyielding courage and
determination to seek truth and justice for the Katyń victims. Roman
Pucinski served as the Chief Investigator of the Special Congressional
Committee for the Katyń Forest Massacre. In spite of great political
pressure, Roman Pucinski led the congressional investigation into the
Katyń Forest Massacre with the highest professional standards, open-
mindedness, fairness and impeccable objectivity.  Through the Roman
Pucinski Leadership Award, the PAC Illinois desires to encourage
political leaders to follow the highest professional standards in
public service as set forth by Honorable Roman Pucinski.

Representative Dennis Kucinich in his remarks pointed out that Poland
shall serve as an example that the cruel history can be overcome.  He
discussed the ways in which the United States can help in healing the
wounds of the Katyń crime.  Referring to the resolution of the Russian
Duma of November 2010, he emphasized that Russia must face its past
and the United States can play a constructive role in this process. He
also declared his support for the efforts to commemorate the lives of
twenty two thousand Polish officers murdered by the Soviets and to
find a meaningful path towards healing the heard of Poland over this
gravest assault on humanity. Representative Dennis Kucinich was
presented with the Honorary Membership in the National Katyń Memorial
Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland, by the Foundation Chairman -
Richard Poremski.  Foundation Director Carla Tomaszewski presented
Congressman Kucinich with eight drawings of the National Katyń
Memorial Monument.

Representative Marcy Kaptur, who was the congressional sponsor of this
conference, was honored with the Congressional Leadership Award by the
Ohio Division of the Polish-American Congress.  Congresswoman Marcy
Kaptur from Toledo, Ohio, is the most senior democratic woman in the
House of Representatives of the 112th US Congress.  In her remarks
Honorable Marcy Kaptur pointed underscored the persevering nature of
the Polish people.  This quality of perseverance is demonstrated by
the fact that today in the 112th US Congress the most senior
congressman in the House of Representatives is Representative John
Dingell of Polish heritage, she, herself of the Polish heritage, is
the most senior Democratic Congresswoman, and the most senior female
senator is Senator Barbara Mikulski also of Polish heritage.
Honorable Kaptur also pointed out that the history of World War II
remains incomplete.  Regrettably, the stories of the Polish veterans
of World War II to this day are not properly told either in Poland or
in the United States.

The closing remarks belonged to Wesley Adamczyk, Son of the Polish
Officer held in Starobielsk, murdered in Kharkov, and buried in the
Piatichatki forest. In June of 1989, after nearly six decades of
searching for his father, Adamczyk together with his son was finally
able to pay last respect to his father at the Piatichatki cemetery.
Upon leaving the cemetery, Adamczyk appealed to his son to never
forget that the truth always comes out despite the grinding of the
bones and planting of the trees over the graves. Adamczyk stressed
that the conspiracy of silence was born at the London meeting where
the Big Four victorious powers allowed the Soviets to handle the
prosecution of the Katyń crime, knowing that all arrows pointed to the
Soviet guilt.  The Western Allies won the war but justice for the
victims of Katyń was never sought or achieved.  Adamczyk appealed to
the Government of the United State to undertake pro-active steps
towards full disclosure and dissemination of all documents related to
the Katyń atrocity in the possession of the US Government.

Maria Szonert, Esq.

President

Libra Institute, Inc.

   IT DOES LOOK THAT 'YOU' EITHER GUITY OR SPEAKING FOR THE GUILTY

THE TRUTH IS THAT THNIS IS USA FORCE THAT WAS USED IN B 51 'STRATEGIC
BOMBING' OF CIVILIANS
IN THE WESTERN UKRAINE,OF THE AT LEST 5 OLD POLISH CITIES WITH
TRADITIONS AND TREMENDOUS ARCHTECHITURE ( BUT POLISH MIND YOU) ON ONE
MORNING 5 AM; THE POWs OF THAT TERRITIORY
 THAN AND NOW ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION BY ANY UNDERSTANDING OF THE
WAR; ATTACKS
ON CIVILIANS WITH PURPOUSE OF ERRADICATIONG IT ARE WAR CRIMES.

INSTE3D , OF SAYIONG THE TRUTH, TEH OFFENDER IS GLORIFIED BY THE PALS
OF THE USA CONGRESS; AND ROOSELVELT PLAYED DUMMY OF THAT WAR IS BEST
PRESIDENT USA HAD , AGAIN. HE AT TAHT TIOME RESIDED IN POLAND,
VIRTUALLY FHIDING FROM THE WORLD. SUCHWAS HIS GREATNESS.

I AM A WITNES THAT HE DID; BUT DID NOT EVEN STOP THERE. NOW HE HIDES
IN THE SUA CONGRESS AS OLD MATE LOOKING KOREAN; USA CONGRESS KEEPS
SOME OF THESE POW STILL AND DOERS NOT SAY THE TRUTH; SOME OF THEM
PERHAPS EXECUTED POLISH HIGHT RANKING  MILITARY ( THEY SPEAK JUS A FEW
WARDS IN PEASAND SOUNDING DIALECT AN DCLAIM REPRESENTATION OF POLISH
INTEREST THERE; AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THATIT IS HOW ONE IS
'POLISH'. THEY ARE NOT POLISH

USA SENATE IS ALOS CONTROLLING DESTINY OF THE KIDNAPPED GOVERMENT OF
POLAND, AGAIN , ON 4/10/2010. SHAME ON YOU

WHAT HAS OCCURED IS BARBARITY.

THE COVER UP THAT MANY YERAS LATER IS A CONTINUATION OF IT.