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Revelations in the Maidan Massacre trial in Ukraine go unreported in the west
https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/revelations-in-the-maidan-massacre-trial-in-ukraine-go-unreported-in-the-west/
By Ivan Katchanovski, on Facebook, July 22, 2015
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=170423#170423
A delayed trial of two Berkut police members in
the Maidan Massacre case [1] have produced
striking new revelations providing further
confirmations of major findings of my Maidan
“snipers’ massacre” study about Maidan snipers
killing both police and protesters and subsequent
cover up and falsification of the official
investigation.[2] But these striking revelations
have not been reported by the Ukrainian and
Western media, even though the trial proceedings
were open to the media, were streamed live over
the Internet and their recordings were posted on YouTube.
On July 15, 2015, the prosecution made public in
court for the first time its charges alleging
that two arrested members of the Berkut special
company massacred 39 out of 49 killed protesters on February 20, 2014.
However, the prosecution’s case unraveled on July
17 when the brother of one of the victims stated
during his questioning by the prosecutors that
Andrii Saienko was killed not from Berkut
positions but from a top floor of the
Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina. He made this
conclusion on the basis of his brother’s position
as shown in a video at the moment of his killing
and an entry wound location in upper right chest
area and a steep wound channel to the backbone.
The prosecutors and relatives of some of the
victims reported during the trial that technical
expert reports in the investigative file
established that Saienko and at least 9 other
protesters were killed from the same exact 7.62mm caliber weapon.
This revelation alone means that a significant
proportion of the protesters were shot from this
Maidan-controlled hotel, since this caliber
bullets were extracted from bodies of 16
protesters. But the prosecution charged two
Berkut members with their killings, even though
Saienko’s brother and his lawyer officially
handed to investigators the aforementioned video file in October 2014.
His brother identified the moment when Saienko
was killed on Instytutska Street, at 9:08:34am in
the video, which was initially filmed from the
Hotel Ukraina by Radio Svoboda and then
synchronized and time-stamped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQkB0jZ39k. This
video also shows the moment when Bohdan Solchanyk
was killed at 9:08:16am, less than 20 seconds
before Saienko in the same area, reportedly with
a 7.62mm bullet. His apparent position, the blood
on the right side of the neck, and louder and
different sounds of several shots in rapid
succession, compared to the AKMS shots fired by
Berkut at the same time, indicate that Solchanyk
was most likely shot dead from the Hotel Ukraina.
At that time, the Berkut policemen were in front
and somewhat to the left from Solchanyk and the
other protesters; and a specific shot, which was
presented in the video synchronization, made by
his acquaintance, as the evidence of his killing
by Berkut, was from a 12mm caliber Fort pump rifle.
In the same video, Ihor Zastavnyi is seen in a
yellow helmet falling nearby several seconds
after Solchanyk was killed. Zastavnyi said in
various interviews that he fell to the ground
after he was wounded there third time and his leg
was severed. He stated that the prosecution
informed him earlier this year that they lost a
bullet extracted from his body:
http://hromadskeradio.org/…/slidchi-prokuraturi-zagubili-ku….
The analysis of the content of the same video and
photo compilation indicates that Maksym Shymko
was killed in the same area at about the same
time, since he was last seen alive at 9:07:15am
and by 9:07:46am he was shot and his stick was on
the pavement near a wooden shield. Although the
exact moment of his killing is missing from the
video, his mother in her court testimony
confirmed this location and indicated that the
investigation found that he was killed from the
same weapon as 9 other protesters, including Saienko.
Another bullet, which was stuck in Shymko’s neck
and which was publicized as evidence of
government snipers, was not of 7.62mm caliber.
His mother supported the prosecution charges that
Berkut killed her son, but she stated that he was
wounded in his neck with an exit wound below his
shoulder blade. This indicates a sharp angle,
which is consistent with the similar location of
the Saienko’s killer and an announcement from the
Maidan stage at 9:10am about two or three
“snipers” on the pendulum floor of the Hotel
Ukraina. This announcement relayed reports of
Maidan protesters concerning the killings of
Shymko, Solchanyk, and Saienko, since they were a
part of the first group of the protesters that
came under deadly live ammunition fire. One of
the charged Berkut members indicated during the
trial that the investigative file contained
testimonies of protesters about Maidan “snipers” at the Hotel Ukraina.
The list of the 39 protesters whose killing the
prosecution attributed to Berkut was only
released nearly one and a half years after the
massacre. The killings of the other 10 protesters
were simply omitted from the charges, even though
8 of them were shot dead at the same time and
place as these 39 protesters. The special Council
of Europe investigative panel reported that the
Ukrainian investigation had evidence that ten
protesters were killed by “snipers” from top of
the buildings, but that investigation did not
found any evidence that these were snipers from
the Security Service of Ukraine Alf unit and
other government units. [See here for an April
2015 news report. And here is the 188-page report
of the panel, dated March 31, 2015.]
The omitted list confirmed information that the
investigation omitted the killings of Oleh
Unshnevych, Evhen Kotliar, Ustym Holodniuk and
Oleksander Kharchenko because of clear evidence
they were killed from the Maidan-controlled
locations, such as Hotel Ukraina. In addition,
the prosecution charges also omitted the killings
of Vasyl Aksenyn, Vladyslav Zubenko, Volodymyr
Chaplynsky and Volodymyr Melnychuk. My study
presents various evidence that these protesters
were also killed from the Maidan-controlled
buildings, mostly Hotel Ukraina, starting from
about 9:18am till almost 5pm. For instance, the
much publicized Zelenyi Front video shows at
10:26am (32:13) that Chaplynsky was shot dead
when he was running away from the massacre area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFHNE8WxOA. A
Spline TV recording of its live broadcast, which
is now removed from a list of its videos on the
Internet, shows sparks flying from the Hotel
Ukraina when a loud gunshot killed this
protestor. Zubenko was killed in the same area at
9:49am, reportedly with a 5.45 caliber bullet.
The prosecution charges confirmed earlier reports
that the investigation did not find specific
evidence linking specific Berkut members to
specific killed protesters. But these charges
also revealed that the prosecution did not
specify the exact time of killing of specific
protesters and policemen, although such
information can be determined from live
broadcasts and synchronized and time-stamped
videos, and it is presented in my study. These
charges deliberately omitted various evidence,
including videos, interviews, and public
admissions, of Maidan “shooters” of the police.
The prosecution case for the first time de facto
admitted an absence of a specific top government
order to massacre the protesters on February 20.
The prosecution stated that after an unspecified
escalation of the conflict around 8am on February
20, the Berkut commander himself ordered the
commander of the special Berkut company to
disperse the protesters on the Maidan and block
them from advancing to the parliament and
presidential administration. It would have been
irrational for the Berkut commander to issue such
an order on his own and use only about two dozen
members of a special company. The prosecution
itself stated that then-president Viktor
Yanukovych and the Minister of Internal Affairs
ordered to disperse the protesters on the Maidan
by force close to midnight on February 18. The
attempt to storm the parliament on February 18
was presented by the prosecution as a peaceful
rally, and subsequent clashes, the killing of
some 30 policemen and protesters and a computer
technician at the office of the Party of Regions were omitted.
The charges stated that following the Berkut
commander order, the Berkut special company
commander ordered the use of AKMs and Fort 500
pump guns with lead pellets, although no evidence
was presented as to why this elite police unit
would start using hunting ammunition. Contrary to
the prosecutor charges account, various evidence
cited in my study and later confirmed by BBC and
other sources show that the Maidan protesters
forced Berkut and Internal troop units, which did
not have then live ammunition, to flee from the
Maidan around 8:50am by killing and wounding
about 20 of them, specifically with pellets and
7.62mm bullets, from the Music Conservatory and
Trade Union buildings. The Berkut special company
was first filmed being deployed and shooting with
live ammunition on Instytutska street at 9:05am
and then briefly moving to Zhovtnevyi Palace to
allow remaining policemen there to flee.
The prosecution claimed that around 9am on
February 20, 2014, unidentified persons of
unknown allegiance started to shoot at the police
and that they killed from an unknown weapon one
member of the Berkut special company and wounded
another. In response to this, the accused from
the Berkut company and unidentified members of
this company and other law enforcement units
became hostile to protesters and started to shoot
in the direction of the unarmed protesters with
AKMS and Fort 500 with lead pellets in order to
kill them. This timeline is also deliberately
misleading, because recordings of live
broadcasts, time-stamped and synchronized videos,
cited in my study, show that at least five
protesters were killed starting at exactly 9:00
am before the member of the special Berkut
company was shot dead with pellets at 9:16am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYjEp1C4hzI.
The prosecution charged two Berkut members with
being a part of an organized group that killed 39
protesters with 7.62mm caliber AKMS during the
assault of the Maidan and from two barricades on
Instytutska Street from 9am till 1pm. During the
testimonies and cross-examination of relatives of
six killed protesters, only one single direct
witness of the killing of one of these protesters
(Eduard Hrynevych) was identified. This witness
now happens to serve in a paramilitary unit of
the Right Sector, which was involved in the
massacre. My study cited videos of protesters
referring at 10:25am to the killing of Hrynevych
by a shot to his head several meters from them
and referring to “snipers” on the pendulum floor
of the Hotel Ukraina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUingq7eyI. This
and other videos show many protesters and
journalists witnessing and recording shooting of these protesters.
Remarkably, a recently posted video, which shows
“snipers” on the top floors of the Hotel Ukraina
shooting at the Maidan protesters was referred to
during the trial as evidence of the killing of
Ihor Kostenko by Berkut. This video shows
Kostenko seconds before and after (0:59) when he
was shot at 9:29am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVXLbkJsX0. At
least seven other protesters were killed within
less than three minutes in the same area.
My study presents various evidence, such as
videos and eyewitness testimonies, indicating
that these and almost all other 39 protesters
were also killed from the Hotel Ukraina and other
Maidan-controlled buildings, and that the Right
Sector, Svoboda, and Fatherland parties were
involved in the “snipers” massacre. There are a
few protesters whose location and time of the
killing are still publicly undisclosed.
A Google News search shows that none of these
revelations during the Maidan Massacre trial have
been reported by the media in Ukraine and the
West. In contrast, there were numerous reports in
the Ukrainian media about each of these
protesters. Similarly, The New York Times, The
Telegraph, and Associated Press previously
published articles, respectively, about the
killings of Solchanyk and Saienko and wounding of
Zastavnyi. The ‘Maidan’ documentary film by
Sergei Loznitsa, shown at the Cannes Film
Festival this year, included the above-mentioned
excerpts of the Radio Svoboda live Internet video
stream showing the killings of Shymko, Solchanyk,
and Saienko. In media reports and in this
documentary, these and other killings of the
protesters were typically directly or indirectly
attributed to Berkut or government snipers.
In contrast, the Maidan stage announcements
concerning the “snipers” at the Hotel Ukraina and
other various evidence of the concealed Maidan
shooters there and in other Maidan-controlled
areas were omitted. The failure to report the
striking new revelations from the ongoing trial
suggests that the misrepresentation in Ukraine
and the West of the Maidan mass killing is driven
not by lack of information but by politics.
Notes:
[1] The two Berkut policemen currently on trial
were arrested last year. Three other policemen
were arrested on similar charges this year but their trial has not yet started.
[2] See: The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in
Ukraine (revised and updated version), by Ivan
Katchanovski, Ph.D, published on Academia.edu, Feb. 20, 2015.
Read also:
Investigation of Snipers Massacre on Maidan
Square: Interview in Danish newspaper with Ivan Katchanovski, June 19, 2015
View:
BBC reports on neo-Nazi rally in Kyiv on July
21. Its reporter fails to mention their role in
the Sniper Massacre in Kyiv on February 20, 2014
and the Odessa Massacre (May 2, 2014). BBC News,
ten minute video, July 22, 2015
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