Operation Wisla was the codename for the 1947 deportation of Ukrainian, Boyko and Lemko populations from southeastern Poland, which was carried out by the Polish Army with the connivance of Soviet and Czech authorities.
The operation was aimed at suppressing the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which had been terrorizing and murdering Poles in the country's southeast since 1944.
Over 150,000 people, mostly Ukrainians, residing in southeastern Poland were resettled, often forcibly, in the so-called Recovered Territories in the north and west of the country. The operation was named after Poland's Wisla River.
The press service quoted Yushchenko as saying: "Unfortunately, Operation Wisla and the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland in 1944-1946 as a planned action by former totalitarian regimes has not been assessed yet in terms of politics and human rights in a sovereign Ukraine."
Motivated by a self-professed need to establish historical justice toward former Ukrainian deportees, Yushchenko asked Oleksandr Moroz, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament, the Supreme Rada, to discuss the issue in parliament and to give a political and human rights evaluation of the tragedy, the source said.
This April marks the sixtieth anniversary of Operation Wisla.
