1946 Pacification Of Villages By PAS NZW
The 1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW was the killing of 79 Polish nationals of Belarusian ethnicity in Bielsk County, north-eastern Poland, by partisans, members of the Polish Extraordinary Special Actions unit of the National Military Union ( pl, Pogotowie Akcji Specjalnej Narodowego Zjednoczenia Wojskowego (PAS NZW)). The murders took place in the aftermath of World War II. In January and February 1946, units of the PAS Special Forces burned down the villages of Zaleszany, Hajnówka County, Zaleszany, Wólka Wygonowska, Zanie, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Zanie, Szpaki, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Szpaki, and Końcowizna. They also executed 30 coachman, coachmen on 30 January 1945 near Puchały Stare, and a similar number of armed resistors in Zanie on 2 February 1946. Since 1995, the mass killing of civilians was the subject of official investigation by the government-affiliated Institute of National Remembrance. The inquiry resulted in the publication of a final report in ...
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Anti-communist Resistance In Poland (1944–46)
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