Police: expert opinion concerning Karkoc image analysis within a month [OUR NEWS]
The possible date for a resolution at the Laboratory of Forensic Police Headquarters in Lublin for the analysis of images of the alleged Ukrainian war criminal, Mykhailo Karkoc is 15th January 2017 – announced Kresy.pl Police Voivodship Headquarters in Lublin.
In a letter received by the editor of Kresy.pl, the Police Voivodship Headquarters in Lublin, confirm that the evaluation of photographs, using facial recognition and comparative imagery analysis, of Mykhailo / Michael Karkoc, a former officer in the Waffen-SS suspected by the IPN of the murder of dozens of Poles during World War II, will be completed within a month. The expert evaluation by the Forensic Laboratory of the Police Headquarters in Lublin is due for completion by 15th January 2017.
The police in Lublin reported on 13th October this year, that the Forensic Laboratory in Lublin had received photographs from the Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation for analysis as well as a decision to appoint an expert in the field of facial recognition and comparative imagery analysis using photographs. For the availability of a concluding opinion, “the prosecutor specified a deadline of 15th February 2017.”
However, according to earlier unofficial information obtained by Kresy.pl, the experts who have to perform the analysis claimed that, due to their current outstanding workload, the analysis of the images of Karkoc would be delayed such that the results will only be known in February 2017.
Police in Lublin also report that, due to the quality of some of the available photographs to be studied, the significant time interval separating when the different images were taken and complicating factors associated with ageing process, it “should be assumed that an opinion on the available material to be tested will take about 150-200 hours.”Moreover, the Lublin police stated that “due to the special nature of the case, the matter is being treated by the Police Headquarters in Lublin as a priority.”
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– With this in mind, I kindly inform you that the possible date for the availability of an opinion by the Laboratory of Forensic Police Headquarters in Lublin is 15th January 2017– reports the Commander of Lublin Voivodship.
Unofficially, the experts believe that confident identification of a person based on photographs separated by over 40-year will be very difficult. However, there is one very important detail. According to our information, it would be possible to link a 1940 photo with a photograph of Karkoć and his brother. The date of this latter photograph is unknown, but the importance lies elsewhere: it was published in the local newspaper Star Tribune – as having coming from the family archive of Michael Karkoć’s family and according to the description by his son, Andriy, it is his father in the picture.
Mykhailo Karkoć, an officer of the Waffen-SS, has according to the findings of the British Holocaust researcher Dr. Stephen Ankier and AP journalists and portal Kresy.pl lived in the United States for decades. However, Karkoć is 97 years old which means that any delay in the comparative analysis of available photographs might mean that he will not be alive to face the consequences of the results.Karkoć was the co-founder and a company commander of the Ukrainian Self-Defense Legion, a collaborationist formation of the Third Reich composed of Ukrainian volunteers. On 23 July 1944, his company was responsible for the ‘pacification’ of Chłaniów villages in the Lublin region in retaliation for the killing by Polish partisans of the German liaison officer. As a result, 44 residents of Chłaniów and the neighbouring village of Władysławin were killed, including children. The evidence gathered by IPN about this incident is totally sufficient to prepare an indictment. Later Karkoc’s unit participated in, among others events, the pacification of Czerniakow during the Warsaw Uprising, and he later became part of the well-known Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS “Galizien” Division.
According to available information, after receiving a US visa Karkoć left for the US in 1949. He lied to the Americans by stating that he did not serve in the military at any time during the war. He continues to live in the Ukrainian part of Minneapolis, where he worked as a carpenter and was also active in local organisations uniting Ukrainians. He received American citizenship and is known as Michael Karkoc.
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Kresy.pl / Marek Trojan
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