(September 6) – The Ukrainian Canadian Congress says it plans to go to court to stop the federal government from making public the names of alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to this country.
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress or UCC is now circulating a letter asking for donations to finance the proposed legal challenge in federal court.
The organization, which states that it represents the Canadian-Ukrainian community, wants to raise $150,000, according to a copy of the Aug. 28 letter obtained by the Ottawa Citizen.
A number of the alleged war criminals on the federal government list are believed to be originally from Ukraine or other eastern European nations.
At issue are documents created by a 1986 federal government war-crimes commission led by Justice Jules Deschenes. One of the documents is titled “Master List of alleged war criminals resident in Canada with a list of sources.” It contains 774 names. Other records held by the inquiry included additional names of alleged war criminals as well as Nazi scientists and technicians who came to Canada. The total number is around 900.
The records have been requested under Canada’s access to Information law and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa still has to decide whether to release the documents.
LAC consulted in June and July with what it called a “discrete group of individuals or organizations” about whether the list should be made public, according to documents obtained by the Ottawa Citizen.
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