The Ukrainian Weekly 1983, No.13
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www.ukrweekly.com Swrc > r- - a !| Hr published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! tn f m K a ;. 2 О M О ^ -1 31 О" О 2 > -П о - о о ж о Ukrainian Weekl ї 02 Vol. LI No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1983 2icwits Catholic bishops Afghan government forces massacre civilians NEW YORK - Afghan government the killings, calling on the government included Dr. Hassan Kakar, a historian issue famine appeal forces are reported to have killed 120 to establish an inquiry into the incidents of international repute; Fazl Rabbi unarmed villagers in Logar province, and urging the authorities to charge and Pazhwak, professor of law and former An appeal of the Ukrainian Catho south of the capital of Kabul, in August try the responsible officials if the chancellor of Kabul University, and Dr. lic bishops in the U.S.A. commemo 1982, according to information reach allegations proved correct. Tarzi, a lecturer in law at the university. rating the tragic 50th anniversary of ing Amnesty International recently. AI also protested to the Afghan According to information received by the artificially created Great Famine The killings are reported by Al's government about the execution of 10 AI, there is no evidence that the three in Ukraine. sources to have taken place in the village anti-government "rebels" on December men were involved in any acts of of Keshem Kale. No further details are 4, 1982, and appealed for the commuta violence. The organization urged the Dear Brothers and Sisters in Chris!: yet available. tion of the death sentences passed on six government to ensure that the three The sacred scriptures warn us to be In another widely reported massacre other men in two separate trials in men were released immediately or carefuHrrot to enact unjust laws. in mid-September, government forces December. These death sentences were charged and tried in open court if they "Woe to those who enact unjust are alleged to have killed 10S unarmed the first to be reported in the Afghan had committed any criminal acts. statutes and who write oppressive people in the village of Padkhwab-e- press for over a year. AI has recently received a list of 15 decrees" (Isaiah 10,1). Fifty years ago Shana, also south of the capital. In its letter, the international human- women reportedly detained in prison in in Ukraine a most tragic event took On January 25, AI wrote to Af rights organization also inquired about Afghanistan for political reasons and is place wherein millions of people ghanistan's president, Babrak Karmal, the reasons for the detention of several currently investigating the reasons for perished in an artificially contrived expressing concern about the reports of academics arrested in May 1982. They their detention. famine, engineered by the godless regime of Soviet Moscow. In order to physically compel the agricultural class of eastern Ukraine to join the State Department holds seminar Ukrainian groups collective fanning concept of the state and in order to do away with consolidate forces free enterprise, a diabolic plan was for East European ethnic press editors conceived to literally destroy the by Dr. Walter Dushnyck Another high-ranking diplomat, breadwinners of the nation. Entire asked about the possibility of reopen to aid Polovchak towns and villages starved to death, WASHINGTON - A special se ing the U.S. Consulate in Kiev, said: "It NEWARK, N.J. - "At the age of 12, ironically in the land that has been minar on U.S. policy on Eastern Europe was a great error to have closed the U.S. Walter Polovchak chose freedom in the called in history "the breadbasket of and the USSR' was held on Friday, Consulate in Kiev, because it was the United States rather than a life in the Europe." The world was unaware of March 11, at the State Department for only way that we could have relations USSR, where the rights of citizens are in what was happening because of the editors of East European ethnic with the Ukrainian people." total subjugation to the state." This is an deceitful propaganda that was dis newspapers in the United States. He added that the closing of the U.S. excerpt from a letter sent by Edward A. seminated from the regime in Mos The conference-seminar, initiated by Consulate in Kiev "was contingent on cow. These people that survived the Zetick, commander of the Ukrainian Edward J. Derwinski, former U.S. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan." American Veterans, to all members of horrors of that artificially created If Moscow withdraws from that Asian congressman from Illinois and now a the U.S. House of Representatives. famine have documented their testi State Department counselor, was for country, the reopening of the U.S. monies into a terrible tale of man's "background only," so no specific Consulate in Kiev would follow. He The letter further explained that inhumanity to man. official can be cited. said that the United States is still paying when Walter's parents returned to the We appeal to you at this time that In all, nine highly specialized offi yearly rent for the Consulate premises Soviet Union, he chrse not to go with you remember all those brothers and cials of the State Department spoke on in Kiev. them and was granted political asylum sisters of ours in the Lord who such topics as overview of the present in the United States. Over the past several years his case gained worldwide perished so tragically. At the same administration's foreign policy, Eastern U.S. foreign relations time we must be mindful of those Europe, human rights, U.S.-Soviet attention when his parents challenged the decision of the U.S. Immigration who still suffer oppression, hunger relations, emigration policies of the The over-all image of the United and Naturalization Service and tried to and want in Ukraine. We ask all of USSR and its satellites, and arms- States abroad has improved considerably , force young Walter, through court our priests to celebrate the divine control issues. After each presentation, from what it used to be in the past. The action, to return to Ukraine. liturgy on Sunday, May 15,1983, for participants were allowed to question the rivat of the United States, the USSR, the intentions of those who perished speaker on the issue related to his despite its massive propaganda, does "At present his case is pending in the so tragically in that famine of the presentation. not fare well abroad because of its State of Illinois and there is a danger of 1930s. In this we join our non- Following is a summation of the pre aggressive policies in Afghanistan and court-ordered deportation." stated Catholic, Orthodox brothers and sentations. Poland, to say the least. Zetick. sisters, in common prayer for our U.S. policies regarding the. six coun As the legal battle rages on in the brothers and sisters. At the same time Problems related to Ukraine tries under discussion vary from country Illinois courts, the Ukrainian American we pray the Lord grant our people a to country. Veterans (UAV) and Americans for better tomorrow, so that "with one At least two speakers referred to the U.S. relations with Yugoslavia are Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) mind and one heart, we may glorify oppression of the Ukrainian people. quite satisfactory, especially because it have launched a double-pronged cam the name of the Father and the Son One, in commenting on Soviet jamming does not belong to the Warsaw Pact paign to involve members of Congress and the Holy Spirit" (divine liturgy). of Radio Liberty and Radio Free bloc, and the post-Tito "collective from all the states, urging them to Europe, said that "the Ukrainians and leadership" is trying to avoid taking become co-sponsors of H.R. 25, intro Stephen the Uzbeks in the USSR do not have part in the East-West conflict, but it duced by Rep. Frank Annunzio of Archbishop-Metropolitan of Phila self-determination." He added that in does play a leading role among Third Illinois. delphia the United Nations some thoughts are World countries. The purpose of this bill is to amend being expressed that the USSR should Bulgaria's stock in U.S. policies was the Immigration and Nationality Act in Basil give Ukraine and Byelorussia "a full almost down to a "zero" rating due to order to clarify the status of any indivi Bishop of Stamford status of independence and have them mounting evidence of Bulgaria's in dual granted political asylum. Upon establish embassies all over the world volvement in the plot to assassinate the enactment, this amendment will protect Innocent and end the anomaly that, though being pope. On that score, the U.S. govern persons who have been granted political Bishop of Chicago members of the United Nations, they are ment is cooperating fully with Italian asylum and would prevent them from not sovereign states" at home. The same authorities. The speaker flatly denied being deported from the United States, Robert diplomat further said that in the "not- allegations to the effect that the CIA thus superceding the decision of state Auxiliary Bishop of the Philadelphia too-distant future, we are going to tried to cover up alleged links between courts or state laws. Metropolitan speak for self-determination for the the KGB and Bulgarian officials now Specifically, it would clarify the Ukrainians." (Continued on pap 3) (Continued on ptfe 3) 2 g THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MARCH 27. 1983 No. 13 Dissident profile Port construction project in Estonia seen as tool of Russification Mylchailo Lutsyk: TALLINN, Estonia — The construc noted that by the time the new commer imprisoned for 31 years tion of a new commercial harbor here in cial harbor is fully operational, Tallinn's the Estonian capital, a major Baltic Estonian population will have dropped to 35 percent.