www.ukrweekly.com VOL. LXXWl. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1979 25 CENTS The UNA is 85 years old To the members of the Al says rights violations Uкгаіпіап National Association exist in 110 countries by Borys Potapenko on the occasion of the 1' visti'' World News Service NEW YORK, N.Y. - Amnesty in– science. Other areas of human rights UNA'S 85th anniversary ternational published its report for do receive some treatment, but officers 1978 and charged that human rights vi– of Amnesty international's executive February 22, 1979, is a double olations continue in 110 countries. committee, Jose Zalaquett and holiday, for on that day we cele– The organization, which was award– Andrew Blane, explained that their brate not only the birthday of the ed the United Nations Human Rights mandate is limited to the three areas of founder of our country, but the Prize in December 1978, made the an– concern. birthday of the Ukrainian Na– nouncement in its annual report which While it may appear on the surface tional Association. was prepared as of July 1978, but not that Amnesty international is limited Yes, it was 85 years ago, on released until a January 31 press con– by the parameters of its self-proc!aim– ference held at the Church Center for ed mandate, the annual report demon– February 22, 1894, that the Uk– the United Nations. rainian National Association was strates the broad implications of its The scope of the report covers three concerns. The problems of conscien– born in the town of Shamokin, 1 specific areas: torture, the death pen– tious objectors in Switzerland receive Pa. alty and release of prisoners of con- (CoBtlantd OB ptfe 3) it can be assumed that the ex– pectations of the founding fa– thers of our Association have been exceeded by far by the Ukrainian philologist gets accomplisjynents of our Soyuz during the past 85 years. The three-year sentence Soyuz is the oldest Ukrainian NEW YORK, N.Y. -vasyl Ovsien– organization in the free world. ko, a philologist and instructor of The oldest and the greatest! Ukrainian language and literature, was The Ukrainian National Asso– sentenced in the Zhytomyr oblast to three years imprisonment, reported the ciation has been in-the forefront press service of the Ukrainian Supreme of all Ukrainian organized life in the United States. Through4ts publica– Liberation Council (abroad). tions, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, it has been a stimulus to the it appears that Ovsienko was arrest– formation of a one Ukrainian community out of the entire Ukrainian immi– ed and sentenced for his refusal to gration to the United States and Canada; through these publications it has allow KGB agents to conduct a search formulated our public opinion and strengthened our community's feeling of of his apartment. national consciousness. Ovsienko was born in 1949. He grad– , The Ukrainian National Association, in addition to offering its fraternal uated from the University of Kiev in members low cost life insurance, has helped to make us all, immigrant and 1972. He taught Ukrainian language American born, proud of our national traditions, customs, culture and his– and literature in the high school in Ta– tory. shan, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytsky region, The Ukrainian National Association embraces members of all religious Kiev oblast. He was first arrested on March 5, denominations and political persuasions, it has financed the publication of 1973, and sentenced to four years the children's magazine "veselka," books on Ukrainian subjects, and in this imprisonment for "anti-Soviet agita– manner has helped preserve and develop our national heritage. tion and propaganda." The Ukrainian National Association awards scholarships, operates chil– After the completion of his term in dren's camps, conducts cultural courses and provides vacation facilities for Mordovian camps, Ovsienko moved to vasyl Ovsienko its members. the village of Lenino, Radomyshl re– The Ukrainian National Association is a patron of our Ukrainian com– gion, Zhytomyr oblast, where his 67- concerning the case of Mykola Matuse– munity's cultural and religious activities. Point to the leadership of any year-old mother resides, in Lenino he vych and Myroslav Marynovych. On organization, point to any worthy Ukrainian cause, point to any worthwile could not find employment in his field August 26, Zhytomyr KGB agents accomplishment of the Ukrainian community — and there you will see the - he was told "there were no job Chaikovsky, Shyshuk and Kotvytsky openings." helping hand of the Ukrainian National Association. The magnificant mon– threatened Ovsienko with arrest be– On April 3, 1977, Ovsienko wrote to cause he supposedly gave "false testi– ument to Taras Shevchenko erected in Washington, D.C., was initiated by the Ministry of Education of the mony." the Ukrainian National Association. Ukrainian SSR asking the ministry to On February 3, 1978, Zhytomyr KGB We, members of the Ukrainian National Association, can be justly proud either provide him with a job or certify agent Protasov interrogated Ovsienko of our accomplishments during the past 85 years. him as unemployed and allocate assis– about the case of Lukianenko. (Prota– We, members of the Ukrainian National Association, bow our heads in tancc for his mother and him. sov had also interrogated Ovsienko (Conlinurd on page 3) On August 2, 1977, Ovsienko was about the case of Heli Snehiriov in the called in for questioning in Zhytomyr autumn of 1977.) 2 ^^^^.^^^^^^^^^^ ^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1979„„„„„.^No.38 Grigorenko protests arrest of Dzhemilev Recent emigre from Ukraine NEW YORK, N.Y. - Referring to According to the statement, Dzhemi– Mustafa Dzhemilev as "the first vic– lev was under constant surveillance visits Svoboda, UNA offices tim" of "a new wave of arrests of Cri– after his release from a concentration mean Tatars," Gen. Petro Grigorenko camp 13 months ago. He was not JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - victor He was expelled after completing an has spoken out in defense of the recent– allowed to move about freely - not Borovsky, a Ukrainian dissident who assignment on the 20th congress of the ly arrested leader of the Crimean Ta– even in the city of Tashkent where he was twice confined in.Soviet "psykhu– Communist Party of the Soviet Union, tars in the USSR, by sending telegrams was forced to live. shky," visited the Svoboda and UNA during which Nikita Khrushchev con– to President Jimmy Carter and George Dzhemilev was arrested as a result of offices here on Friday, February 9, and demned the policies of Joseph Stalin. Meany, president of the AFL-CiO, provocation by the KGB, wrote Gen. spoke with Svoboda and The Weekly Having no source materials for the as- and by issuing a public statement. Grigorenko. in an ambiguous state– editors and UNA supreme officers. He signed report and no access to party ment, Dzhemilev was told that after was accompanied by Osyp Zinkewych. documents, Mr. Borovsky based his re- Dzhemilev was arrested in Tashkent, port on the detailed information contain– Uzbek SSR, on February 7 for alleged the conclusion of a period of supervi– Mr. Borovsky had previously sion he had the right to find himself a ed. in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag violations of passport regulations. appeared at the third World Congress Archipelago." "The arrest of the seriously ill Mus– place of permanent residence. The of Free Ukrainians, when he testified authorities knew very well that he had tafa means certain death for him. We at a panel of that body's Human For this, Mr. Borovsky was not only nowhere to go but to his parents' home appeal to you to save his life," the gen– Rights Commission. forced to leave the institute, but was in Crimea. Soviet officials waited for eral and his family stated in the tele- also confined for three months in 1i Dzhemilev at the airport and arrested Mr. Borovsky was born November grams. psychiatric hospital. According to Mr.– him on the spot for violation of pass- 27, 1956. He studied at the pedagogical "His arrest causes great grief for the Borovsky, the term in the "psykhu– port regulations. institute in Slovianske until he was ex– entire Crimean Tatar nation and the shka" led him onto the dissident path. entire rights defense movement in the Gen. Grigorenko expressed his belief pelled for his dissident views. USSR and Eastern Europe," Grigoren– that Dzhemilev "can be saved only by Later, he established contacts with ko said in his public statement. a firm protest." the rights activists in Moscow, espe– cially with Gen. Petro Grigorenko. la Dzhemilev renounces Kiev, he was in touch with Petro vins, Oksana Meshko, Oleksander Berdnyk Al picks Osadchy as prisoner of month Sovietcitizenship and Nina Strokata. NEW YORK, N.Y. - Amnesty in– Rhodesia, Ciro Molina of Nicaragua MOSCOW, USSR. - Mustafa ternational has selected Ukrainian poli– and Boris Evdokimov of the Soviet Mr. Borovsky was once again sent to Dzhemilev, a leader of the campaign to a psychiatric institution in 1977 — this tical prisoner Mykhailo Osadchy for its Union. allow Crimean Tatars exiled to Central prisoner-of-the-month campaign. Al requested its readers to send time for a period of 40 days. He was Asia in World War 11 to return to their then offered the "opportunity" to emi– The winter 1979 edition of Match- "courteously worded" tetters to Soviet homes, has renounced his Soviet citi– box listed Osadchy in its monthly officials requesting Osadchy's immedi– grate from the USSR. He did so by zenship and applied to emigrate to the means of an isreali visa after realizing campaign along with John Chirisa of ate release. United States, reported the Associated that he had no other choice. Pressl in a statement given to Western re- in answering the questions of Svo– Moroz embodies Ukrainian spirit porters, Dzhemilev, 35, said he had boda and The Weekly editors, 22-year- acted because the police had harassed old Mr.