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24 january 2008
16:58
Bill to recognize OUN-UPA fighters as WWII combatants tabled in Verkhovna Rada
Jan. 23, a bill to recognize the fighters of OUN-UPA as WWII combatants was registered in Verkhovna Rada. The bill is authored by Ivan Stojko, Roman Tkach and Yaroslav Kendzior (NUNS), VR press service told the ZIK information agency.In a memo to the bill, the authors say that one of the reasons for OUN-UPA army formation was NKVD-organized atrocities against civilian Ukrainian population. The authors also point out that the fight by OUN-UPA for Ukraine’s freedom and independence acquired the dimensions of the national liberation struggle as of September 1939 through the late 50s, that OUN-UPA became a warring side in the conflict and its fighters, accordingly, must be treated as WWII combatants. Under the bill, the government undertakes guarantees of social protection for OUN-UPA veterans.
Under the bill, the appropriate funding is to be entered when the 2008 is revised later in the year.
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Look up Genocide in Volhynia.