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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline
Vol. 6, No. 132, Part II
17 July 2002
Construction workers at a monastery in western Ukraine have
uncovered about 130 skeletons that officials believe may have
been victims of a post-World War II massacre of members of
the Greek Catholic Church, Reuters reported on 16 July. The
agency added that the remains, some of which are those of children,
were found under the floor of a facility that once housed a Greek
Catholic Church, which was banned by Joseph Stalin in 1946.
"These people were buried so secretly that even the locals did not
know they were in the monastery. It looks like entire families were
killed here," Reuters quoted Evhen Yanushevych, deputy head of
the Zhovka regional administration, as saying. "We presume they
could have been killed by the NKVD [Soviet secret police], but
we need to carry out more tests." AH
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