BBC: Were British AVK Sniper Rifles Used To Kill Ukraine's Kiev Demonstrators?

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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2014 · News & Politics

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Rada Commission Determines Who Shot People in Kiev
Author  Voronz, Vsk, 23/02/2014 - 13:22
The Verkhovna Rada [parliamentary] commission to investigate the massacre in Kiev, chaired by Hennadiy Moskal, deputy from the Bitkivshchina [Fatherland] Party, has determined that the sniple rifles with which people were shot in Kiev on the morning of 20 February were purchased for the Crimean Territorial Department of Internal Forces, UNIAN reported, citing a statement from commission chairman Moskal.
This special sub-division was created personally by Stanislav Shulyak, a commander of the Ukrainian internal troops; its commander is Col. Sergei Asavalyuk, Moskal stated.
According to Moskal's report, soldiers from the Crimean special division were captured on video by journalists, and their radio chatter was recorded. Information about the purchase of 80 British AVK type sniper rifles for this sub-division is contained in the Vestnik gosudarstvennykh zakupok Ukrainy [Bulletin of State Purchases of Ukraine].
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The secrets of Gladio 
Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Observer, 7 June 1992, pages 53-54
...In Belgium, for instance, all evidence points to the fact that a US-born Gladio agent, Wood Gardiner, infiltrated the Belgian pacifist movement and persuaded some of its members in 1984 to steal shells from the missile base at Florenne. When the theft was discovered it did the pacifist cause no good at all.
More important were the apparently random shootings in Belgian supermarkets which ended with a particularly nasty incident in 1983 in the town of Aalst, a few miles from Brussels, which became known as the Brabant-Walloon massacres. Senator Lallemand has linked the killings to 'the work of foreign governments or of intelligence services working for foreigners, a terrorism aimed a destabilising democratic society'.
Martial Lekeu, a former member of the Belgian gendarmerie who was close to the investigation of the atrocities, that members of his own force were involved in the murders and that official inquiries into it were aborted.
The British authorities, leaders with Washington in the scheme, are refusing all comment on Gladio. But information about Britain's role has come from parliamentary and other investigations carried out elsewhere in Europe.
Belgian documents, starting with Spaak's letter of 1949, show what a major role Britain has constantly played. Papers presented to the parliamentary inquiry set up in Belgium on Gladio show that in Belgium in 1981 and in Britain in 1982 Belgian personnel received training from British instructors. In April 1982 Belgians prepared for a Gladio exercise involving Britain and the US, codenamed Blackbird, which was called off at the last minute when Argentina invaded the Falklands.
In 1990 Colonel S. Schwebach of Belgian intelligence reported to his Defence Minister that an exercise called Waterland had taken place the previous year. In it, members of the Royal Marines Special Boat Squadron parachuted into the seas off the coast of Flanders, were guided ashore by Belgian civilians and went on to simulate the dynamiting of the massive canal locks at Zeebrugge.
There were even reports, so far unconfirmed, in Belgium that Belgian personnel had been part of a recent Gladio exercise in Britain aimed at demonstrating that Dover docks could be put out of action were the Russians to occupy Kent.
Britain was active too in the Gladio operation in Switzerland. Effrem Cattalan, who headed the Swiss P26 intelligence organisation and helped to organise Gladio in his country, told us how his organisation 'has English colleagues who instructed them in general training, like covert operations and parachute jumps at night in which England has had exceptionally good experience since the war'.
The British also collaborated, he said, with his predecessor at P26, Colonel Albert Bachmann, for the possible evacuation of the headquarters of a Swiss resistance movement to Britain, known as Operation Edelweiss. The report of the Swiss official investigation into the Gladio affair, led by Judge Pierre Cornu and published last September, shows that, with admirable meticulousness, a supply of Swiss army buttons and other insignia was lodged, against the day they might come in useful, in the safe of the Swiss embassy in Bryanston Square....
http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/gladio_obs_7jun1992.html

MI6 officer and author of The Last Days Of Hitler (1946) Hugh Trevor-Roper argued that history should be understood as an art, not a science, and that the key attribute of a successful historian was their power of imagination 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper#Academic_controversies

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