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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 22
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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CHURCH PREVENTS TSAR'S REBURIAL
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Electronic Telegraph Friday 9 February 1996
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[Home News]
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Church prevents Tsar's reburial
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BY ALAN PHILPS IN MOSCOW
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THE reburial of the remains of Tsar Nicholas II has been
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postponed because the Russian Orthodox Church does not accept
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scientific findings that the bones are genuine.
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DNA tests on the remains found in a mass grave outside the Urals
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city of Yekaterinburg in 1991 convinced scientists last year that
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the bodies were those of the last Tsar and his family, shot by
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the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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Russian judicial authorities closed the case and a provisional
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burial date of Absolution Sunday, which this year falls on Feb
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25, was chosen by the mayor of St Petersburg. But the Russian
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Orthodox Church opposes the reburial, saying that it is not
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convinced the remains are genuine.
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This has forced the Russian government, which had endorsed the
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identification, to continue its investigations, although it is
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hard to imagine what firmer scientific proof could be found.
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"This year is clearly not possible for the reburial. Next year on
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Absolution Sunday perhaps, but it depends on the Church," said
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Andrei Sebentsov, of the government commission on identification
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of the remains of the imperial family.
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Mr Sebentsov said he was convinced by the DNA tests, made at the
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Home Office Forensic Science Service, in Aldermaston with blood
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donated by Prince Philip, a kinsman of the Tsar, and separately
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in Washington. "But the whole world has to be convinced, too."
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The Russian government believes the church is stalling for
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internal political reasons, the main one being whether the Tsar
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should be canonised as a saint and martyr, as desired by some
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churchmen. Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitskoye and Kolomna
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acknowledged it would be a "big scandal" if the Tsar was
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canonised, only for it to emerge that the remains were not
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genuine.
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The church's case for not accepting the DNA test results rests in
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part on reports that the bodies were destroyed by fire and acid.
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Although no one cares to say it, a vision or a miracle would do
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more than a thousand scientific tests to convince the deeply
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traditional Orthodox Church of the authenticity of the remains.
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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For related info, see CN 4.17, CN 4.21, CN 4.25, CN 4.26
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Archived at: ftp.shout.net pub/users/bigred
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