Ukraine’s leader says he is “deeply concerned” by Poland’s adoption of a controversial Holocaust bill.
The Polish legislation stirred outrage in Israel as it sets penalties for anyone who refers to Nazi German death camps as Polish or accuses Poland of complicity in the Third Reich’s crimes.
But a different passage of the bill allows for the prosecution of anyone who denies war crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists in a move which has sparked an outcry in Kiev.
“I am deeply concerned by the decision of the Polish parliament,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko writes on Facebook.
“Historical truth calls for a frank conversation and dialogue and not prohibitions. The assessments which this decision contains are totally biased and completely unacceptable.”
Poroshenko says the legislation violated principles of “strategic partnership” between the two countries, saying Ukraine remembered “common victories and the fight against totalitarian regimes.”
Some historians say Ukraine’s UPA nationalists committed atrocities during World War II, notably against Poles in Ukraine.
— AFP
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