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Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, marking the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, announces plans to build a Wall of Remembrance in Warsaw for identified victims of the Volhynia massacr
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In Short: Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced plans to build a Wall of Remembrance in Warsaw to honor victims of the Volhynia mass killings, marking the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
In a statement, Tusk emphasized the importance of remembering and acknowledging the past to build a better future, stating, 'memory and truth must help us build a better future, without hatred and without contempt.
The monument will feature an eternal flame and the names of every victim who has been identified, with the Wall of Remembrance to be erected in Warsaw.
At a commemorative ceremony in Olyka, Ukraine, Poland's Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz called for both Warsaw and Kyiv to move forward together, accepting responsibility for the past to build a better future.
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- Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said “memory and truth must help us build a better future, without hatred and without contempt”.
- WARSAW – Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on July 11 announced the creation of a new monument to civilian victims of what he called a “genocide” by “Ukrainian nationalists” in World War II.
- “A Wall of Remembrance will be erected in Warsaw, with an eternal flame and the names of every victim who has been found and identified,” he said on social media.
- In Olyka, north-west Ukraine, Poland’s Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told a commemorative ceremony that Warsaw and Kyiv needed to “move forward together” to “build a better future by accepting…
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- Straitstimeslink