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From a Government Proclamation
To the People of the Ukraine Riwne, April 12, 1919 To preserve the peace and to maintain public law and order � as the first condition of a free life for all citizens of the Ukrainian Democratic Republic � the Ukrainian Government will fight with all its power against violations of public order, will strike the brigands and pogrom instigators with the severest punishment and expose them publicly. Above all the Government will not tolerate any pogroms against the Jewish population in the Ukraine, and will employ every available means for the purpose of combating these abject criminals, dangerous to the State, who are disgracing our nation in the eyes of all the civilized nations of the world. The Government of the Ukrainian Democratic Republic is certain that the Ukrainian people � who themselves have suffered national slavery through many years and are conscious of the worth of national freedom and therefore proclaimed before all things the national-personal autonomy of the minorities in the Ukraine � will support the Ukrainian Government in eliminating these evil-doers who are the scum of humanity.
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