Puchały Stare massacre
1946 CE.
Shown on the map at 52.667°, 22.867°.
In the aftermath of World War II, between 79 and 87 Polish nationals of Belarusian ethnicity were killed in Białystok Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, by partisans, members of the Polish Extraordinary Special Actions unit of the National Military Union (Polish: Pogotowie Akcji Specjalnej Narodowego Zjednoczenia Wojskowego). In January and February 1946, units of the PAS Special Forces burned down the villages of Zaleszany, Wólka Wygonowska, Zanie, Szpaki, and Końcowizna. They also executed 30 coachmen on 30 January 1945 near Puchały Stare, and a similar number of armed resistors in Zanie on 2 February 1946. Since 1995, the killing of civilians was the subject of official investigation by the government-affiliated Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The inquiry resulted in the publication of a final report in June 2005, summarizing the case.
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