Khatyn Truth film disproves official version of tragedy

• 18.06.2008, 9:13

Khatyn Truth is a 35-minute documentary film, first run yesterday in Minsk. It shows the tragedy of Khatyn village (Lahoisk district), burnt with all its dwellers on 22 March 1943.

According to historian Ihar Kuznyatsou, film advisor, the film disproves the official version of burning Khatyn by Nazi occupants, BelaPAN reports.

Khatyn Truth suggests the facts that the village was burnt by a Ukrainian police squad. Kuznyatsou emphasises the collaborators committed a much more murderous crime, than the Germans had ordered.

The Belarusian documentary film is to be presented at international documentary film festivals and broadcasted on foreign TV channels.