Poles Picket Russian Embassy
Relatives of some of the 22,000 Polish prisoners of war murdered by Soviet forces in 1940 picketed the Russian Embassy in Warsaw Wednesday, demanding Moscow apologize for the killings and classify them as genocide.
The Polish prisoners were killed by the Soviet secret police in 1940 in and around the forest near the city of Katyn, in what was then the western Soviet Union.
The remains were uncovered in 1943 by the Nazis after they had overrun the area in their invasion of the Soviet Union.
Polish lawmakers have called for Moscow to classify the killings as genocide and bring the remaining perpetrators of the so-called Katyn massacre to justice.