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Thu, 18 Mar 1999

Wasyl Odynsky Defense Trust Fund

In September 1997 the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada served Wasyl Odynsky with documents seeking to deport him for allegedly making false representations about his wartime activities in his application for Canadian citizenship. Wasyl Odynsky has not been charged with war crimes. Despite the lack of evidence of war criminality against Wasyl Odynsky the government of Canada is continuing with deportation proceedings against him.

Mr. Odynsky's trial began in January 1999 and is still going. It is estimated that his legal fees will exceed $250,000. Like Ivan Demjanjuk before him, even if Mr. Odynsky is successful, this trial will have cost him his life savings. The financial strain is more than he and his family can bear and his defense must not falter for lack of funds. The friends of the Odynsky family are turning to the Ukrainian community for its support. If this battle is won, maybe we will live to see the day that our people are no longer persecuted as scapegoats for crimes that they did not commit.

A trust fund has been created for Mr. Odynsky's defense expenses. Please contact us at AnatolUKE@aol.com for information about making contributions to this cause.

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