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Agence France-Presse: Ukraine marks 75 years since Babi Yar mass slaughter

Published Sept. 29, 2016. Updated Sept. 29 at 9:26 am

A Jewish woman lays flowers during the 70th memorial ceremony tribute to victims of the 1941 Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev, on October 3, 2011. The Nazis murdered 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar on September 29 and 30, 1941, in an atrocity that has only been properly commemorated in recent years as the deadliest shooting massacre of the Holocaust. (AFP)

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A sombre Ukraine on Thursday marks 75 years since the World War II slaughter of some 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev, one of the largest massacres of the Holocaust.

The carnage by Nazi forces at the Babi Yar ravine has caused years of soul-searching and debate in Ukraine over the participation of local collaborators in the killings and atrocities that followed.