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The
applicant
contests
the
factual
findings
of
the
domestic
courts
.
In
his
estimation
,
all
the
victims
of
the
attack
were
collaborators
and
traitors
who
had
delivered
Major
Chugunov
's
platoon
into
the
hands
of
the
Germans
in
February
1944
by
ruse
,
while
Meikuls
Krupniks
and
Bernards
Šķirmants
were
Schutzmänner
(
members
of
the
German
auxiliary
police
force
)
.
In
February
1944
Chugunov
's
group
of
Partisans
–
comprising
nine
men
,
two
women
and
a
small
child
–
had
taken
refuge
in
Krupniks
'
barn
.
Three
women
(
Krupniks
'
mother
and
wife
and
Bernards
Šķirmants
'
wife
)
brought
them
provisions
and
assured
them
that
the
Wehrmacht
was
some
distance
away
.
However
,
while
the
women
kept
watch
,
Šķirmants
sent
Krupniks
to
alert
a
German
garrison
stationed
in
the
neighbouring
village
.
On
arriving
in
Mazie
Bati
,
the
German
soldiers
had
machine
-
gunned
the
barn
with
incendiary
bullets
causing
it
to
catch
fire
.
Any
member
of
Chugunov
's
group
,
including
the
women
and
the
child
,
who
tried
to
escape
was
shot
dead
.
After
the
carnage
,
Krupniks
'
mother
had
removed
the
coats
from
the
bodies
.
For
its
part
,
the
German
military
command
had
rewarded
the
villagers
concerned
with
firewood
,
sugar
,
alcohol
and
a
sum
of
money
.
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