Polish charg\u00e9 d’affaires Piotr \u0141ukasiewicz faces fierce backlash after invoking Ukrainian victims of pre-war Polish state violence during commemorations of the Volhynia Massacre held on July 11 in O\u0142yka. <\/p>\n
While honoring Polish victims of Ukrainian violence in Volhynia, Piotr \u0141ukasiewicz, Poland’s charg\u00e9 d’affaires in Ukraine, stated that he could not ignore the Ukrainian victims of Polish state violence during the Second Polish Republic. He described the events of the Second World War as both terrible and unnecessary.<\/p>\n
\u0141ukasiewicz clarified that he was not attempting to establish symmetry or equate the scale and quality of suffering between the two sides. Instead, he emphasized the necessity of remembering the past, including elements that were shameful and unworthy.<\/p>\n
The speech drew immediate criticism from Law and Justice (PiS) MP Mariusz B\u0142aszczak, who noted the presence of Defense Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz at the event. B\u0142aszczak demanded to know if the minister accepts the diplomat’s words, arguing that the memory of genocide should not be relativized.<\/p>\n
B\u0142aszczak stated that he expects a clear response and an adequate reaction from the Defense Minister, emphasizing that the minister remained silent while the Polish diplomat suggested a balancing of history during the commemoration of the Bloody Sunday.<\/p>\n
Other politicians joined the criticism of the diplomat. Janusz Kowalski of PiS called the words shameful and demanded that there be no place for such individuals in Polish diplomacy or state structures.<\/p>\n
Konrad Berkowicz of the Confederation party also censured the speech. He accused \u0141ukasiewicz of spitting on the memory of murdered Poles by contrasting the massacre with allegations of pre-war persecution against Ukrainians, labeling the diplomat\u2019s address a disgrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Polish charg\u00e9 d’affaires Piotr \u0141ukasiewicz faces fierce backlash after invoking Ukrainian victims of pre-war Polish state violence during commemorations of the Volhynia Massacre held on July 11 in O\u0142yka. The Statement in O\u0142yka While honoring Polish victims of Ukrainian violence in Volhynia, Piotr \u0141ukasiewicz, Poland’s charg\u00e9 d’affaires in Ukraine, stated that he could not ignore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}