A spat just broke out between Poland and Ukraine over Ukraine renaming a Ukrainian army unit after a group of controversial World War Two fighters called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lye7…

So who were the UPA?

The number of Polish victims of the Ukrainian UPA is estimated at 100,000-500,000. A precise determination requires research and exhumations, which Ukraine has consistently refused.

The majority of those murdered were women and young children.

Methods used:

1. Killing by blows to the head with blunt instruments, including axes, hammers, shovels, or other farm implements.
2. Smashing, chopping, and piercing the head, including using axes, bayonets, nails, stakes, and sharp instruments.
3. Scalping, excoriation, and inflicting cuts on the face, head, and torso.
4. Throat slitting, strangulation, neck twisting, and other methods of inflicting death by damaging the neck and respiratory tract.
5. Chopping off the head, arms, hands, fingers, feet, and legs. Breaking the bones of arms, legs, ribs, and joints, also using tools or mechanical devices.
7. Inflicting stab and slash wounds with knives, bayonets, pitchforks, scythes, sickles, and other sharp instruments.
8. Cutting open the abdomen, chest, and torso, also with the removal of entrails or the insertion of foreign objects into the body.
9. Particular cruelty towards pregnant women, including cutting open the abdomen, killing unborn children, replacing them with a live cat or broken glass and stitching them shut.
10. Rape, including rape using sharp objects, and mutilation of the genitals of women and men.
11. Cutting off women's breasts and sprinkling salt or other substances into the wounds that cause additional suffering.
12. Piercing the body completely with wheels, stakes, wire, bayonets, pitchforks, or gun barrels.
13. Nailing victims to tables, doors, floors, thresholds, crosses, or trees.
14. Binding, tying, and constricting victims with barbed wire, rope, or chains.
15. Hanging victims from trees, beams, barbed wire, or other structures, including upside down.
16. Drowning in rivers, wells, or other bodies of water, often after binding or mutilating them.
17. Burning alive in buildings, bonfires, or after dousing them with flammable substances.
18. Burning the body, pouring boiling water on it, applying it to hot surfaces, and inflicting burns.
19. Sawing a living person with a handsaw from the groin toward the head, cutting open the torso, and tearing the body apart using horses, trees, chains, or vehicles. 20. Dragging victims along the ground, roads, and streets, often tied to carts or horse-drawn carriages.
21. Burying them alive, leaving them in the ground up to their necks, or finishing them off after burying them.
22. Throwing people into wells, fires, or from cliffs and other heights.
23. Cruel murder of children, including infants, by smashing them against buildings, impaling them, throwing them alive into fires, drowning them, nailing their heads, hands, and tongues, and quartering them.
24. Desecrating corpses, dismembering them, displaying them for public display, and inflicting wounds after death.
25. Mass torture against families and groups of residents, including tying them together, dragging them behind vehicles, or throwing them into common execution sites.
26. Killing them with agricultural, farm, and construction tools, which gave the crimes a particularly brutal and demonstrative character. 27. Blinding, tooth extraction, cutting off noses, ears, tongues, and lips, and other forms of facial mutilation.
These are just a few examples.

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