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Date of my letter

Subject of my letter

Date of Attack

Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

15May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?

April 1979

30Jun99

Who murdered Vadim Boyko?

February 14, 1992

Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

09Apr99

Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?

Summer 1995

17May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?

July 7-8, 1997

01Jul99

Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?

August 11, 1997

As the conclusion of your 23Oct94 60 Minutes story, The Ugly Face of Freedom, was that

Ukraine is a place in which Ukrainians practice violence against Jews, it is highly

relevant that Borys Derevyanko is Ukrainian and Eduard Hurvits is Jewish. You went to

Ukraine looking for evidence of Ukrainians harming Jews, you failed to find such

evidence, but you broadcast your conclusion anyway. The true story that you would not

broadcast, and that was readily documentable, is that Ukraine is a place in which Jews

harm Ukrainians. The plainest moral to be drawn from the Derevyanko-Hurvits story is

that when a muckraking Ukrainian editor takes on a corrupt Jewish politician, the

Ukrainian editor ends up dead. That is the reality of Ukraine. It was the reality of

Ukraine when you visited it in 1994, it was the reality of Ukraine before 1994, and it

has been the reality of Ukraine since 1994.

As in earlier letters, I fault you for not reporting such incidents as are in the above

table that took place before 1994, and I fault you for precipitating such incidents that

took place after 1994. Thus, to the blood that is already on your hands, I add the

blood of Borys Derevyanko. You had the opportunity in your 1994 broadcast to come out

on the side of the victims against the butchers, but you preferred to side with the

butchers against the victims, and Borys Derevyanko has been one of the casualties of

your decision.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,

Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.

Michaud refuses to apologize,

Bouchard facing PQ split

WebPosted Thu Dec 21 08:51:59 2000

QUEBEC CITY - A controversy within the Parti

Quйbйcois has escalated and could threaten the

leadership of Premier Lucien Bouchard.

It began last week when an influential member of

the PQ, who wants to run in a byelection, made

comments about the Holocaust.

Bouchard demanded the comments be withdrawn.

Yves Michaud refused.

Now people within the PQ are taking sides.

On Wednesday, as the

National Assembly was

wrapping up for the

Christmas break, the

controversy took a

sharp turn for the worse.

Michaud said he has no

reason to apologize.

"I have never said or written anything that

minimizes the Nazi horror against the Jews," he

said. "What you are doing to demonize a member

of your party is a dishonour and not worthy of a

premier."

"Michaud said he was fed up with Jews always

saying they're the only people to have suffered, and

I won't have it," said Bouchard.

Michaud has been around the PQ a long time. He

is a committed, hardcore sovereigntist, part of a

faction in the party that's often doubted Bouchard's

commitment.

Last week, on radio, and at a commission studying

the French language, he said Quebec's Jews were

intolerant, voting as they do en masse against

sovereignty, and they believe they're the only

people to have suffered throughout history.

Michaud wants to be a PQ candidate in an

upcoming byelection, but Bouchard's answer came

Tuesday after a meeting with his caucus. Withdraw

either your remarks, or your candidacy.

Michaud will do neither. And now, he's gathering

powerful support.

He has the backing of Bouchard's predecessor,

Jacques Parizeau, and some influential

sovereigntist groups. They say his remarks were

inelegant, inopportune, but not anti-Semitic.

Bouchard in the meantime says the sovereignty

movement must show the world it will not tolerate

Michaud's opinions. He has the backing of his

caucus, but in some cases, it sounds almost

reluctant.

Now, an emerging question: Can a split become

an irrevocable rupture costing Bouchard the

leadership?

He asked his party to think about it over the

holidays. But there's no apparent solution.

In February, the party must choose its byelection

candidate and right now, both sides seem locked

into their positions facing a deadline they cannot

avoid.

POSTED AT 4:04 AM EST Wednesday, December 20

Bouchard courts confrontation

By RHЙAL SЙGUIN

Globe and Mail Update

Quebec - Premier Lucien Bouchard is prepared to

put his leadership on the line if the Parti Quйbйcois fails to support him on several

contentious issues, including his intention to ban a prominent PQ member from running in

a by-election next spring.

"He is prepared to take on the party," said a senior party member. "We get the sense that if

the party executive goes against him on the Yves Michaud affair, on language or on his

strategy for achieving sovereignty, the party will shatter. The mood is such that we may be

looking at a confrontation between the leader and the party. He warned us it could be

fatal."