This is how the historical and local history youth traveling camp "Proshchanytsia - 2003" ended, which took place on July 8-11, 2003 in the Lokachyn and Ivanychiv districts of Volyn. \n \nAccording to the Chairman of the Volyn organization of the Youth Nationalist Congress, deputy of the Lutsk City Council Ihor Huz, "if a film were made about the events that took place around the camp participants, it could compete with Hollywood comedy thrillers. \n \nThe thing is that on July 11 at 7:15, units of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and "Berkut" surrounded the youth camp (participants' age from 14 to 22 years), using force, "loaded" the participants into buses and took them in an unknown direction. \n \nIn this regard, the Leadership of the Volyn Regional Organization of the Youth Nationalist Congress adopted a statement, which in particular speaks of violations of the rights and freedoms of Ukrainian citizens, such as: the right to dignity, inviolability, the right to assemble peacefully, freedom of movement, thought, speech, etc. \n \nThis is also mentioned in the appeals of the camp participants to the President of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General, the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor of the Volyn region, in which they demand to look into this situation and explain on what grounds they were detained. \n \nFor greater objectivity, we present the chronology of events: \n \nBeginning of June 2003 - according to the Decree of the President, decisions of the Volyn Regional and Lutsk City Councils, the Volyn organizations of "Young Rukh" and the Youth Nationalist Congress, with the support of the Volyn Regional Organization of the Ukrainian People's Party and its head, People's Deputy of Ukraine Borys Zahreva, decided to hold a historical and local history camp, whose participants would meet with witnesses of events within the framework of the "Ukrainian-Polish conflict" and thus contribute to "establishing historical truth". To the surprise of the organizers, they immediately encountered a number of obstacles from the authorities - they were refused permission to hold the camp on the territory of the Ivanychiv district, although it is precisely here that "establishing historical truth" is most relevant. \n \nHowever, the necessary permits were obtained and on July 8, 2003 at 14:00 the camp participants, namely young people from Volyn, Sumy region, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Rivne and Ternopil regions, gathered near the regional philharmonic, where ordered buses and ... the watchful eye and video cameras of Ministry of Internal Affairs and SBU officers were waiting for them. After traveling less than 200 meters, the campers were forced to stop at the demand of traffic police officers. Only the arrival of journalists and the intervention of People's Deputy of Ukraine Borys Zahreva exhausted this conflict and the young people arrived without further adventures in the village of Vilka Sadova, where they spent the first night. \n \nJuly 9-10, 2003 - the camp took place on the territory of the Lokachyn district. The young people collected considerable material and testimonies about the events of the turbulent 1940s, visited the villages of Khoriv, Rykovychi, Staryi and Novyi Zahoriv, and others. These materials will be systematized and published. \n \nJuly 11, 2003 - village of Pereslavychi, 5 km from the village of Pavlivka - 7:15 - vehicles with detachments of internal troops and "Berkut" began arriving at the camp. Command: Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Savchenko, Deputy Head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Volyn region P.Ya. Bondar, Head of the Ivanychiv District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs V. Hus. They reported that there were complaints from the local population that potatoes had disappeared and suggested that the camp be folded up and that they voluntarily get into the vehicles that had been prepared in advance. \n \n8:00 - after the refusal of the camp leadership (commandant - assistant-consultant of People's Deputy of Ukraine Borys Zahreva Serhii Hodlevskyi), "Berkut" detachments rudely began carrying people into the buses. \n \n8:30 - the Deputy Head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Volyn region reported: "You will be taken to clarify the circumstances, and at 10:30 you will be delivered to Pavlivka." The buses set off in the direction of Horokhiv. \n \nAround 10:00 - the movement of buses was stopped near the village of Uhryniv due to the blocking of the road by People's Deputies of Ukraine Borys Zahreva, Vasyl Chervoni, Heorhii Manculenko and Serhii Oleksiuk, who demanded explanations. \n \n10:30 - the camp participants were released, the column set off for Pavlivka. \n \nAlready in Lutsk it became known that Ministry of Internal Affairs officers had come to the parents of camp participants from Kovel and the Kovel district and said that their children had been detained and were in a pretrial detention cell. \n \nContact phone numbers: Ihor Huz 8-067-332-20-17; Alina Shpak 8-067-975-36-65 \n