Jurij Klufas has not met 98\u002Dyear\u002Dold Yaroslav Hunka, but said the treatment the veteran is getting is unfair.
“They represent this division as fighting not for Nazi Germany, but fighting for Ukrainian independence, even though there was never any opportunity to fight for any Ukrainian independence,” he said. “They were fighting under German command until the end of World War II.”
But Justice Jules Deschenes, who led the commission, said membership in the division did not in itself constitute a crime, and that “charges of war crimes against members of the Galicia Division have never been substantiated, either in 1950 when they were first preferred, or in 1984 when they were renewed, or before this commission.”Article content
“There are difficult and painful pages in the shared history of the communities who made their home in Ukraine,” congress CEO Ihor Michalchyshyn said in a statement. “The UCC acknowledges that recent events that brought these pages to the forefront have caused pain and anguish.” “Most of our Italian immigrants of the 1950s, if they were men of a certain age, had probably been in the Italian army and fought for Fascist Italy,” said Sysyn, who is a member of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
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