It's National Holodomor Awareness Week in Canada, this week, Nov. 23-29. The forced starvation took place in 1932-33 and had between 2.6 million to 10 million victims.
There is an article in the Free Press today, in which a member of the Israeli government commented on the Holodomor;
"...Jan. 28, 2009, pronouncement by Pinhas Avivi, deputy director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry: "We regard the Holodomor as a tragedy but in no case do we call it genocide...the Holocaust is the only genocide to us."
The article's author, Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada , goes on to say
Yet Ukraine's declaration that the Great Famine of 1932-1933 (known as the Holodomor) was genocide has secured very little official recognition from other states, Canada one of those few.
"Most have succumbed to an ongoing Holodomor-denial campaign orchestrated by the Russian Federation's barkers who insist famine occurred throughout the USSR in the 1930's, did not target Ukrainians and so can't be called genocide.
They ignore key evidence -- the fact that all foodstuffs were confiscated from Soviet Ukraine even as its borders were blockaded, preventing relief supplies from getting in, or anyone from getting out. And how the Kremlin's men denied the existence of catastrophic famine conditions as Ukrainian grain was exported to the West.
Millions could have been saved but were instead allowed to starve. Most victims were Ukrainians who perished on Ukrainian lands. There's no denying that.
A thirst for Siberian oil and gas explains why Germany, France and Italy have become Moscow's handmaidens, refusing to acknowledge the Holodomor and blocking Ukraine's membership in the European Union, kowtowing to Russia's geopolitical claim of having some "right" to interfere in the affairs of countries in its so-called "near abroad."
This year Nov. 28 is the date on which the Holodomor's victims will be hallowed. Thousands of postcards bearing Lemkin's image and citing his words have been mailed to ambassadors worldwide with governments from Belgium to Botswana, from Brazil to Bhutan, being asked to acknowledge what was arguably the greatest crime against humanity to befoul 20th century European history."
Is the Holocaust the only genocide?
There is an article in the Free Press today, in which a member of the Israeli government commented on the Holodomor;
"...Jan. 28, 2009, pronouncement by Pinhas Avivi, deputy director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry: "We regard the Holodomor as a tragedy but in no case do we call it genocide...the Holocaust is the only genocide to us."
The article's author, Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada , goes on to say
Yet Ukraine's declaration that the Great Famine of 1932-1933 (known as the Holodomor) was genocide has secured very little official recognition from other states, Canada one of those few.
"Most have succumbed to an ongoing Holodomor-denial campaign orchestrated by the Russian Federation's barkers who insist famine occurred throughout the USSR in the 1930's, did not target Ukrainians and so can't be called genocide.
They ignore key evidence -- the fact that all foodstuffs were confiscated from Soviet Ukraine even as its borders were blockaded, preventing relief supplies from getting in, or anyone from getting out. And how the Kremlin's men denied the existence of catastrophic famine conditions as Ukrainian grain was exported to the West.
Millions could have been saved but were instead allowed to starve. Most victims were Ukrainians who perished on Ukrainian lands. There's no denying that.
A thirst for Siberian oil and gas explains why Germany, France and Italy have become Moscow's handmaidens, refusing to acknowledge the Holodomor and blocking Ukraine's membership in the European Union, kowtowing to Russia's geopolitical claim of having some "right" to interfere in the affairs of countries in its so-called "near abroad."
This year Nov. 28 is the date on which the Holodomor's victims will be hallowed. Thousands of postcards bearing Lemkin's image and citing his words have been mailed to ambassadors worldwide with governments from Belgium to Botswana, from Brazil to Bhutan, being asked to acknowledge what was arguably the greatest crime against humanity to befoul 20th century European history."
Is the Holocaust the only genocide?
