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UKRAINE REPORT - AUR - Number 906
Mr. Morgan
Williams, Publisher and Editor, SigmaBleyzer
WASHINGTON,
D.C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
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Olena Honcharenko, Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv,
Ukraine, July 21, 2008
The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv,
Ukraine, Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Genocide caused the death of millions of Ukrainians
in 1932-1933
By Clark Kim, Inside Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, Tue, Sep 9, 2008
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. PRESIDENT
YUSHCHENKO HANDS OVER LISTS OF GERMANS WHO
DIED
OF FORCED STARVATION IN 1932-1933 TO GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERKEL
Olena Honcharenko, Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv,
Ukraine, July 21, 2008
KYIV - President Viktor Yuschenko handed over to Chancellor of
Germany Angela Merkel lists of Germans who died of starvation in
1932-33 in Ukraine
[Holodomor]. He announced this at a joint
press-conference with Merkel.
"I handed over to madam Merkel lists of those people who in 1932-33
died from starvation in those German settlements, which were situated
in eastern part of Ukraine," Yuschenko said. President hopes,
that Merkel will hand over this data to relatives and close people of
those perished.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, on July 3 Parliamentary Assembly of
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
recognized the Holodomor famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine.
Between three million and seven million people died in the 1932 — 1933
famine in Ukraine, according to various estimates. Moreover,
according to several historians, there were famines in Ukraine in the
1921 — 1923 and 1946 — 1947 periods.
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. OSCE
PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY RECOGNIZED THE HOLODOMOR OF
1932-1933 IN UKRAINE AND ADVISED ALL PARLIAMENTS TO DO THE SAME
The Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv,
Ukraine, Tuesday, July 8, 2008
KYIV - The 17th session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) passed
a resolution on the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine last Sunday in
Astana.
OSCE PA,
[1] “pays tribute to the innocent lives of millions of
Ukrainians who perished during the Holodomor of 1932 and 1933 as a
result of the mass starvation brought about by the cruel deliberate
actions and policies of totalitarian Stalinist regime”,
[2] “welcomes the recognition of the Holodomor in
the United Nations, by the United Nations Educational and Scientific
Organization and by the national parliaments of a number of the OSCE
participating States,”
[3] “endorses the Joint Statement of 31 OSCE participating
States on the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in
Ukraine, delivered at the 15th Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial
Council,” the resolution says in particular. Besides, OSCE PA
[4] “supports the initiative of Ukraine to reveal the full
truth of this tragedy of Ukrainian people, in particular, through
raising public awareness of the Holodomor at international and national
levels, organizing the commemorations of the Holodomor as well as
academic, expert and civil events aimed at discussing this
issue.” OSCE PA
[5] “invites the parliamentarians of the OSCE Member States
to participate in the events, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the
Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine” and “strongly encourages all
parliaments to adopt acts regarding recognition of the Holodomor.”
COMMENTARY
Stanislav KULCHYTSKY , Deputy Director, Institute of the
History of Ukraine (National Academy of Sciences):
“For the world community to recognize the 1932-1933 Holodomor as
genocide, we should cooperate more with unbiased foreign historians. As
it has already been reported, the book Why Was He Destroying Us? Stalin
and the Holodomor in Ukraine of The Day Library series was recently
launched in Bucharest.
Speaking at this ceremony, member of the Rumanian Academy of
Sciences Florin Constantinium noted that it is strange that the
polemics, which has lasted for 20 years now since the publication of
Robert Conquest’s Harvest of Sorrow , is inadequately based on the
findings of Ukrainian historians.
As is known, in this polemics the Ukrainian side does not
deny the fact of an all-USSR famine in 1932-1933, but it speaks about
something entirely different - the Holodomor in Ukraine, and it has
enough facts to differentiate between the two phenomena. As for the
attitude of Russia to this subject, we should react to the way it
treats this ticklish question by way of third countries’ mediation.”
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. HOLODOMOR WILL
BE RECOGNIZED IN TORONTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Genocide caused
the death of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933
By Clark Kim, Inside Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The Holodomor, an event during the early 1930s in the Ukraine where
millions died of famine, will now be recognized on the fourth Friday of
November in all Toronto public schools starting this year.
The motion by Ward 12 (Willowdale) Trustee Mari Rutka to honour those
who died during the Holodomor was unanimously approved at the last
Toronto District School Board meeting in late August.
Several countries, including Canada, recognized the Holodomor as an act
of genocide caused by the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin to
"systematically destroy the Ukrainian people's aspirations for a free
and independent Ukraine, and subsequently caused the death of millions
of Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933."
"A lot of people don't know about it," said Rutka, noting the old
Soviet government had suppressed the information until recently. "At
least five million died as a result of Stalin's policy."
But recognizing the Holodomor at the TDSB is just the first step, Rutka
said, acknowledging the Ukrainian-Canadian community in Toronto for
bringing the Holodomor to the attention of the school board.
"In order to support that (motion), there will be another motion to the
programs committee this month to develop resource materials for
teachers so they can discuss this issue with their students," she said.
Eugene Yakovtich, chair of the famine genocide committee with the
Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Toronto Branch, said he hoped the school
board will vote to see the Holodomor in the history curriculum as early
as next school year.
"It's a significant part of history in the last 100 years," said
Yakovitch, adding more documentation of the Holodomor is being revealed
since Ukraine declared independence from the former Soviet Union in the
early 1990s. "This could be a lesson from history."
The motion to include the Holodomor into the public school board's
curriculum will be brought forward to the program and school services
committee
Wednesday, Sept. 10.
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