Katyn

A fifth Katyn case has been lodged at the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, with Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor accused of failing to clarify the circumstances of the fate of 20,000 Polish officers killed by Stalin’s security service (NKVD) in 1940.
 
The current, individual complaint has been made by the family of Jozef Dawda.
 
“My grandfather Jozef Dawda was an officer of the Polish police force stationed in the vicinity of Kolomea,” recounts Dariusz Dawda, who lives in Canada. .

The death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, along with his wife and other senior government figures, has come at a time when the tragedy can only be viewed with great suspicion. Kaczynski had placed considerable pressure on the Russian authorities to finally admit to the murder of 22,000 Polich officers and others at Katyn forest, in 1940. For many years, the Russians blamed the Nazis for the murder of the men, who were prisoners of war. It was only in 1990 that Mikhail Gorbachev admitted to the truth - to this day, many Russians still believe the lie.