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Babi YarRavine near Kiev, Ukraine, where more than 100,000 people (80,000 of whom were Jews, the remainder being Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians) were murdered by the Nazis in 1941. The site was ignored until the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem called ‘Babi Yar’ (1961) in protest at plans for a sports centre on the site.
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| They were fed to the crematoria of Auschwitz; mowed down into the Babi Yar ravine; devoured by the Soviet Gulag prison camps; murdered by degrees through forced labor; starved to death through engineered famines in the Ukraine, China and Ethiopia; butchered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; and hacked to death by machete-wielding government mobs in Rwanda. At Babi Yar John Paul II paid tribute to the 200,000 (mostly) Jews who were massacred there by the Nazis. In today's International Herald Tribune they report on the first reparation payments for slaves captured during the Second World War, the Russians who mark the 61st anniversary of the invasion of their country by Hitler and the Pope who is visiting the monument at Babi Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev where the Nazis massacred more than 30,000 Jews in two days. |
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