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Babi Yar

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Ba·bi Yar  (bäb yär, bäby)
A ravine outside Kiev in north-central Ukraine where the Jews of the city were killed by German troops in 1941. The massacre is commemorated in Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem "Babi Yar."


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They were fed to the crematoria of Auschwitz; mowed down into the Babi Yar ravine; devoured by the Soviet Gulag prison camps; murdered by degrees through forced labor; starved to death through engineered famines in the Ukraine, China and Ethiopia; butchered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; and hacked to death by machete-wielding government mobs in Rwanda.
At Babi Yar John Paul II paid tribute to the 200,000 (mostly) Jews who were massacred there by the Nazis.
In today's International Herald Tribune they report on the first reparation payments for slaves captured during the Second World War, the Russians who mark the 61st anniversary of the invasion of their country by Hitler and the Pope who is visiting the monument at Babi Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev where the Nazis massacred more than 30,000 Jews in two days.
 
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