Evening star., 1953-01-18
Indictment Of Soviet
On Genoeide Charges
To Be Sought in U. N.
By the Associated Press

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Jan. ia drive to get the
U. N. General Assembly to indict
Russia and her satellites here
next month on a charge of crush
ing religious and national groups
was begun here today by Rafael
Lemkin, author Of the U. Ms
genocide treaty.
Mr.. Lemkin, whose one-man
campaign got 40 nations to rat
ify his treaty outlawing mass
destruction of any group because
of their religion, race or nation
ality, said he is certain the So
Wet bloc can be convicted of
practicing genocide.
A refuge from Poland, Mr..
Lemkin undertook his one-man
campaign to outlaw genocide-
and got it approved by the U. N.
After years of effort-because
his own family was exterminated
by Nazi gassing in death chan-
berS at Auschwitz in World War
II. He escaped and is the only
survivor of his immediate family.
He said today I'VE have to
show the thing Stain is doing
Gin the Communist anti-Semitic
campaign is exactly the same
as Hitler did"
Commission Proposed.
Between now and the return
of the assembly February "a,
Mr.. Lemkin said, he hopes to
persuade a number of countries
to bring the U. N. action. He
has begun by proposing a U. N.
commission to investigate the
charges, SIMILAR to the commits
sion set up by the assembly last
month to investigate charges of
racial disputes in South Africa.
But Mr.. Lemkin said all the
facts are there to convict Rus
Sia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and
her other satellites of the crime
of genocide.
The treaty defines genocide
as "actS undertaken with the in
tent to destroy in whole or in
part a national. racial, ethnic
or religious groups as such,
through killings, inf1icting seri-
ously mental or bodily harm,
creation of conditions of life
calculated to bring about physi-
cal destruction and even kidnap-
ing of children" Neither the
United States nor Russia has
ratified it. Russia signed the
treaty. however, in December
1949. without ratification, and is
therefore bound by it. Mr.. Lem
kin insists.
Czech Trials Cited.
CzechoSlovakia, which has rat
ifled the convention, singled
ants in recent purge trials. Mr.
out the Jewish aspects of defend
Lemkin said.
He charged that the kidnap-
ing Of children of Jews in Hun
gary to raise them as Commu-
nists was matched by the kid
naping of $4,000 Greek children
taken away from their parents
by Communist guerrillas in
1947.
Polish children are being
shipped to Red China now for
"reeducation," Mr.. Lemkin said.
The breaking-up of the .Latvi-
an, Lithuanian and Estonian re-
publics, killing of their nationals
and shifting of huge populations
to Siberia was part of the Soviet
plan, Mr.. Lemkin told reporters.
Moscow Charges Noted.
The accusations against the
Jewish doctors in Moscow in a
purported medical murder con-
spiracy revealed that the Soviet
government is acting in the
same way that the satellites
have been acting in disposing of
Jews, he said.
In addition. Romania is work.
ing Jews to death in drainage
projects in the Danube marshes;
Hungary resettled thousands of
Jews and caused a suicide wave
among them: and satellites pro-
ceed on direct instructions from
Moscow. Mr.. Lemkin charged.
Romania and Hungary also had