Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly Vol. LVIl No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1989 50 cents Lviv residents protest unjust elections Dzyuba focuses on Ukrainian language's as thousands march through city center perilous situation in Edmonton speech JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Thousands while two local police chiefs using by Marco Levytsky Pavlychko and myself. Therefore, I can of Lviv residents gathered on March 12 megaphones ordered the people to leave Editor, Ukrainian News of Edmonton tell you first hand, that it looks like this in the city center for a pre-elections the area. bill will indeed be made into law. The meeting which turned into an angry Meanwhile several police units, EDMONTON - Ivan Dzyuba, au­ government is receiving tens of thou­ demonstration after local police vio­ coming from all directions, surrounded thor of "Internationalism or Russifica- sands of letters that demand that lently attempted to scatter the crowd, the square and forced the crowd away tion?," focused his remarks here on Ukrainian be made into the official reported the External Representation from it and toward the city arsenal and March 3 on the perilous situation of the language of the republic," Mr. Dzyuba of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union last regional party committee headquarters. Ukrainian language, noting, however, said, speaking through an interpreter. week. Some people panicked and fell on the that "after decades and centuries of "We do not require such a law in Thousands of people had already pavement. The militiamen reportedly being suppressed and rooted out," the order to discriminate against other gathered at noon for the public meeting kicked them, while those who protested language may 'linally take its place in languages, just that the Ukrainian lan­ about the March 26 elections to the new were grabbed and shoved into police the world" after the Ukrainian SSR guage — after decades and centuries of Soviet parliament, which was scheduled cars. Supreme Soviet adopts a law declaring being suppressed and rooted out could for 2 p.m. in the square in front of the As the police directed their attention it the republic's state language. finally take its place in the world... all Church of the Assumption in this against the people who found them­ The Supreme Soviet of Ukraine is we desire is that our people should get western Ukrainian city. At 1:30 p.m., selves near the Korolivskiy (King's) currently preparing a law declaring what every civilized nation on earth however, three local officials appeared Arsenal and the Dominican Church, a Ukrainian as the official language of the should have. That's why all our ideals before the gathered crowd, declared the group of activists representing various Ukrainian SSR, Mr. Dzyuba told his are associated with democratization, rneeting illegal because permission had local informal associations decided to Edmonton audience. A working com­ with the flower of our society in the not been granted by local authorities, transform the meeting, which had mission of the Supreme Soviet held its direction of humanism in the direction and demanded that the crowd disperse turned into chaos, into a demonstra­ organizational meeting on February 7. of every nation's human goals and immediately, according to an eyewit­ tion. "The working commission which is aspirations," Mr. Dzyuba said. ness account reported by the UHU. The protesters formed a column, assisting the presidium to prepare this Recognition of Ukrainian as the Petro Kalhuy, a local activist who which was led by members of the law includes several prominent Ukrai­ official language of the Ukrainian SSR was supposed to run the meeting, initiative committee for a popular front, nian writers, Yuriy Mushketyk^ Ivan (Continued on page 13) declared before the crowd that the the Lviv branch of the Ukrainian meeting would go on despite the official Helsinki Union and the Compassion ban and was immediately apprehended (Myloserdia) Society, who distributed Soviets suggest Ukrainian Catholics by police and pushed into a vehicle. hundreds of yellow and blue flags of the Police reportedly quickly surrounded Ukrainian National Republic among worship in Latin rite churches the ruins of an ancient wall fortification, the crowd. ROME — Local Soviet authorities conducted an ecumenical panakhyda which was used as a speakers'platform. (Continued on page 14) and the KGB in Ukraine have ap­ with Ukrainian Orthodox priest proached Ukrainian Catholic bishops Mykhailo Nyshkohus on Sunday, with an offer to hold their services February 26, on the 128th anniversary Iryna Ka/ynets receives W-day sentence without interference, if they are held in of death of Ukraine's national bard, JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Ukrainian kraine's national poet. The people also Latin rite churches in Ukraine, report Taras Shevchenko, was to begin his national rights activist and member of demanded that Mr. Horyn be released leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic detail on March 5. It is unknown where the newly formed Marian society Com­ because of his poor health and weak Church in Ukraine. he has been assigned. passion (Myloserdia) Iryna Kalynets of heart. The Catholic Press Bureau in Rome This is not the first time as Ukrainian Lviv was sentenced to 10 days' impri­ Mr. Horyn was released and sent reported on March 15 that under­ Catholic priest has been assigned to sonment for organizing an unsanc- home, his trial postponed until March ground Church sources have dismissed army duty. The Rev. Mykhailo Havryliv tioned meeting in front of St. George's 20. It has been reported by Lviv UHU this offer as a manuever to avert serious was charged with cleaning up nuclear Cathedral, reported Anatoliy Dot- spokespeople that the militia did come discussion of the legalization of the waste in Chornobyl in 1987 after his senko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian to claim Mr. Horyn at his house on Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine. book, "Every Person is First of All a Helsinki Union in Moscow. March 10, however, they did not find "This offer has been made to Ukrai­ History: The Story of a Ukrainian Mrs. Kalynets, who was sentenced on him at home and departed. nian Catholic bishops before and has Catholic Priest in Ukraine," was pub­ March 10 and is due to be released on The women of the Initiative Group of always been declined," said Cardinal lished in the West. March 20, was found guilty of orga­ the Compassion society, however, have Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, head of It is not known whether the Rev. nizing a meeting of a political, not begun protesting the imprisonment of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, who Nyshkohus was punished for his partici­ religious nature, on January 22. Mrs. Mrs. Kalynets with a declared hunger resides in Rome. "We are Catholics in pation in the requiem service, after Kalynets contends that the January 22 strike. In a letter dated March 15 and full communion with Rome, but we which the two priests addressed the event was a religious service, a moleben sent to the procurator general of the follow the Byzantine rite. It is our 25,000-30,000 faithful, stating that the for the unity of the Ukrainian people, Soviet Union, Moscow Patriarch tradition and we will not compromise it. Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian and for the health of the children of Pimen and the procurator of the Lviv Before the liquidation of the Ukrainian Orthodox have always wanted to live Ukraine and Armenia. oblast, the women - among them, Catholic Church in Ukraine in 1946, we together in peace and Christian love, On March 9 and 10, Mykhailo Stefania Shabatura, Maria Babiy, had over 4,000 churches and chapels." but that the Soviet authorities kept Horyn's trial also was scheduled to Maria , Kruhlova, Anna Moroz, them from doing so. begin in another courtroom. Mr. Horyn Maria Bocharska, V^enovia Zarytska, There are an estimated 80 Latin rite Additional reports from Ukraine was accused along with Mrs. Kalynets Ulana Hnativ and Maria Fedak — Catholic churches in Soviet Ukraine. indicate that the threats against Ukrai­ by the Russian Orthodox Church's Lviv protest the "amoral actions of the These churches could not serve the nian Catholic believers continue. The eparchy of instigating religious conflicts clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church needs of the estimated 5 million prac­ Rev. Havryliv reported that KGB and among believers at the January 22 and St. George's Cathedral in Lviv, who ticing Ukrainian Catholics, reported the local police travel through villages and service. arbitrarily charged Myloserdia member press bureau. conduct house-to-house interviews and However, according to UHU spokes- Iryna Kalynets in organizing a prayer Repressions against practicing U- searches. The authorities ask if any people in Lviv more than 2,000 people for the unity of the Ukrainian people krainian Catholic and Ukrainian Or­ family members consider themselves gathered at the courthouse on March 9 and the health of the children of U- thodox faithful continue in Ukraine, as Ukrainian Catholics. If the people and began singing Shevchenko songs, kraine and Armenia." news reached the West that Ukrainian respond that this is their faith, they are among them "Testament" and "My "We are outraged at the obvious Catholic Redemptorist priest the Rev. threatened with job loss or homeless- Thoughts," and in this way marking the breach of procedural norms, the cynical Mykhailo Voloshyn was sentenced to a ness, the Ukrainian Catholic Press 175th anniversary of the birth of U- (Continued on page 14) six-month Army detail. The cleric, who Bureau reported. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1989 " No. 12 250,000 Latvians rally in capital GLASNOST DIARY: for recognition of native language MOSCOW - Some 250,000 Lat­ They also wanted to say that democrati­ recording changes in the USSR vians rallied on March 12 in the capital zation cannot be stopped in Latvia." city of Riga to urge official recognition Vitaliy Korotich, editor of Ogonyok, of Latvian as the republic's state lan­ reportedly told the crowd: "If pere- The cost of cool Aeroflot's perestroika guage.