The Muczne massacre of 16 August 1944 was the massacre of

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civilians committed by the

Ukrainian Insurgent Army The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During World ...

(UIA) in village Muczne located in Bieszczady County in

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. Among the Poles were mainly refugees after the repression of the population in Volhynia and retreating in front of - 70 Poles were murdered. They were residents of nearby villages such as foresters, priests and children. Members of the UPA murdered Poles with axes, pitchforks and scythes. In place of the murder in 2010 the memorial and a wooden

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was erected.Bieszczadcy leśnicy postawili pomnik dla pomordowanych przez UPA
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Grzegorz Motyka Grzegorz Motyka (born 1967) is a Polish historian and author specializing in the history of Poland–Ukraine relations. Since 1992 he served at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of National ...

, "Tak było w Bieszczadach. Walki polsko-ukraińskie w Polsce 1943-1948", Warszawa 1998 {{DEFAULTSORT:Muczne Massacre 1944 murders in Poland Massacres in 1944 Poland in World War II Massacres of Poles in Eastern Galicia August 1944 events