Chuck Konkel and the Polish intelligence service during World War II

"WHO HAS BURIED THE DEAD?" is a shocking global thriller by Kazimierz GE "Chuck" Konkel set in Poland during World War II. It presents the realities of pain and suffering that Poles endured both during the German-Russian invasion and during the occupation of our nation, and tells little-known stories about the Polish underground and Poles fighting on the Western Front.

"WHO HAS BURIED THE DEAD?"

The Pole's book also reveals one of the last great secrets of World War II, which, like Enigma, contains a very important Polish element. The heroes of the novel are faithfully recreated real and fictional characters, all while maintaining the historical truth. From great personalities such as: Churchill, Zhukov and Beria, Władysław Sikorski, Zygmunt Berling and Harry Truman, to places and events known from the pages of history, such as: the Nanjing Massacre, the Russo-Finnish Winter War, the Katyn massacre, the siege of Sevastopol, the famous great escape from Stalag Luft 3 in Kagan Poland, Warsaw Uprising and atomic bomb tests in New Mexico.

The book "WHO HAS BURIED THE DEAD?" is so faithful to the facts that it also reflects the mechanism of what is happening today with Russia in Ukraine. This novel is a must-read for all Poles around the world, and is especially recommended for future generations, as it provides valuable historical context and describes Poland's role in the fight for freedom. It contains a rich legacy that must not be allowed to disappear. The millions of victims who died in Nazi extermination camps and on the streets of European cities during air raids code-named "Night and Fog" - the total destruction of Warsaw and the devil's desire to completely destroy the Polish nation, are, unfortunately, again what is happening today in front of the eyes of the world, but this together, the oppressed nation is the Ukrainian nation.

The last great secret of World War II

Russian artillery strikes in Ukraine continue unabated. Putin works from Stalin's manual…and adds new, more violent chapters every day. After years of research, author Konkel is convinced he has uncovered one of the last great secrets of World War II - a secret so groundbreaking in the world order that the NKVD, Gestapo, MI5/6 and Allied forces launched a desperate battle to be the first to find it. in the final days of global conflict.

The author - Kazimierz GE "Chuck" Konkel - is a Polish senior Toronto police investigator who was sent to Poland by the FBI to train the Polish federal police after the fall of communism. He was a personal adviser to the late Marek Papala, Chief Commander of the Police. Konkel was warned by the Allies to leave Poland immediately as his and Papala's lives were in danger. Soon after Konkel left Poland, Marek Papała was murdered. In a separate case, Konkel executed a search warrant in a closed area near Moscow for cars stolen from Chicago and given as "gifts" to the highest figures of Russian politics. Said site turned out to be an integral part of the investigation related to the production of rocket components. The order issued by a high-ranking Russian judge was blocked by the Kremlin authorities. Currently, Konkel works closely with Interpol, the National Police Forces of Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the RCMP and the FBI on international organized crime cases. Konkel's father, Edward, was a Polish veteran of World War II, who survived a POW camp and two concentration camps before being captured, and collaborated with the Dutch and French underground. Edward Konkel was eventually placed on death row where he spent two weeks at the infamous Oranje Hotel outside Den Haag in the Netherlands. However, he was allowed to live.

Two earlier Konkla thrillers

KGE Konkel has two thrillers to his credit - "The Glorious East Wind" about the last years of British Hong Kong, in which he predicted the massacre at Tiananmen Square. As a result, he has been featured on major North American media outlets including Larry King Live, NBC-National with John Miller, PBS National Radio, and David Letterman among others. The second novel set in Mexico - "Evil Never Sleeps" deals with criminal cartels.

Where to buy the Polish thriller "WHO HAS BURIED THE DEAD?"

"WHO HAS BURIED THE DEAD?" is a world-class thriller, available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble in the US and Chapters in Canada.

www.whohasburiedthedead.com. The last North American bestseller about Poland during World War II was "THE THOUSAND HOUR DAY" by WS Kuniczak in 1966. Since then, no novel about Poland during World War II has been published until "WHO HAS BURIED THE DEAD?" which was written about Poland and for Poland and the world's Polonia. The book also arouses the interest of filmmakers who want to bring it to the screen

Why is Canada failing to act on its responsibility to protect Uyghurs?

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has concluded that the Chinese government’s actions 'may amount to international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.'

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, with Defence Minister Anita Anand, left, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. As one of the fundamental forces behind the international Responsibility to Protect norm, one would expect Canada to lead the international response to the Uyghur genocide, writes Dolkun Isa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

OPINION | BY DOLKUN ISA | January 30, 202

“A failure of humanity” is what retired senator and former Canadian Forces lieutenant-general Roméo Dallaire, who led the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, called the Rwandan genocide. Barely one year after the atrocities in Rwanda, events in the Bosnia town of Srebrenica again highlighted the failure of the signatories of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention to uphold their promise to prevent and punish genocide. 

Out of this failure to prevent the atrocities in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was born as “an international norm that seeks to ensure that the international community never again fails to halt the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity,” according to the Global Centre for the R2P.

Canadian leadership was instrumental in the establishment of R2P. In 2000, the Canadian government set up the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, which led to the initial creation of the norm of R2P in 2001 and its unanimous adoption at the 2005 UN World Summit.

Dolkun Isa is the head of the World Uyghur Congress. Photograph courtesy of Optimum Publishing International

Since 2005, it has become evident that the international community can respond to atrocity crimes. In the case of Myanmar, for example, we have seen an UN-mandated Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, and investigations at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

But this also raises an important question: why are we not seeing similar efforts to end the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people?

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Since 2017, millions of Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic people have been arbitrarily detained, tortured, sexually abused, indoctrinated, and subjected to forced labour. Uyghur children are systematically separated from their families, and Uyghur women are forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations. As a result, Uyghur birth rates have dropped dramatically, putting the future of the Uyghurs as an ethnic people at risk.

These deplorable acts meet the critical criteria of crimes against humanity and genocide, which the United States government and parliamentary bodies in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Taiwan, and the European Union have affirmed. The independent Uyghur Tribunal reached a similar conclusion and presented its verdict after 18 months of investigations and three in-person hearings.

At a UN level, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has concluded that the Chinese government’s actions “may amount to international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.” And most recently, acting under its Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination referred this matter to the special adviser of the secretary-general on the Responsibility to Protect.

One would expect Canada, as one of the fundamental forces behind the R2P norm, to lead the international response to the Uyghur genocide. Indeed, the Canadian House of Commons was the first Parliament to adopt a genocide resolution in October 2021 and has repeatedly urged the Canadian government to take firm action. 

On Feb. 1, the House of Commons will vote on Motion 62, which would create a resettlement program to expedite the entry of 10,00 Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic people. This is the first motion of its kind worldwide and of invaluable support to Uyghurs in third countries who are at risk of being sent back to China. 

Nevertheless, a big gap remains between what the House of Commons wants and what the Canadian government actually does to help end the Uyghur genocide. One area in which Canada is still seriously lagging is ending the complicity of Canadian companies in the Chinese government’s crimes. 

As Uyghur forced labour taints many industries, including textiles, apparel, solar, automobile, construction, technology, and finance, virtually every Canadian consumer is still at risk of buying products made by forced labour.

While the United States has its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, and the European Union and other countries are in the process of adopting similar legislation to ban the imports of forced labour products, Canada has made no such efforts. It has merely debated a law which requires companies to report on what steps they have taken to identify forced labour in their supply chains. This is not nearly close enough to an import ban, which is the bare minimum to stop the harm Canadian companies are doing to Uyghurs in East Turkistan.

It is not yet too late. During the 2005 UN World Summit, the Canadian government affirmed its preparedness “to take collective action, in a timely and decisive manner, [if …] national authorities are manifestly failing to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”. 

To prevent another “failure of humanity,” Canada would do well to act in accordance with this commitment.

Dolkun Isa is the head of the World Uyghur Congress and author of The China Freedom Trap, My Life on the Run, to be published this May by OPI Books.





Optimum sponsors Centre Ice Conservatives conference in Edmonton

August 10, 2022

For immediate release

Optimum Publishing International (OPI) is pleased to announce that it is a proud sponsor of the Centre Ice “Let’s Grow, Canada!” Policy Conference taking place Thursday, August 11, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta.

The conference features OPI author Tasha Kheiriddin’s new book, The Right Path: How Conservatives can Unite, Inspire and Take Canada Forward, which proposes a roadmap for the Conservative Party of Canada to win the next federal election. Kheiriddin is also a member of the advisory board for Centre Ice and is serving as a panelist and moderator at the event.

“Canadians deserve a choice of governing party if we are to have a functioning democracy in this country,” said Kheiriddin. “Based on research, data, and interviews, The Right Path prescribes how the Conservative Party can build a big tent that both respects its principles and addresses today’s issues with inclusive, pragmatic, centre-right policies that appeal to mainstream Canadian voters.”

OPI will also be showcasing a number of its key books on national and international political and geopolitical issues, including the #1 Globe and Mail bestseller What We Lost by Tawfiq Rangwalla, which details the demise of WE Charity at the hands of unscrupulous politicians, and Sam Cooper’s Wilful Blindness, a Globe and Mail, Amazon and Toronto Star bestseller and the definite exposé on the nexus of transnational organized crime with the Chinese Communist Party in Canada. 

“The mission of OPI Books is to provide readers an inside perspective on critical national and geo-political events by the foremost thought leaders of today,” said publisher and President of OPI, Dean Baxendale. “In this time of political uncertainty it is clear we must combat the rise of authoritarian political movements and parties as democracy comes increasingly under threat at home and abroad.”

For media inquiries and to arrange for interviews with authors or Optimum staff:

Publicity@optimumpublishinginternational.com or 647 970 1973

 

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