The
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has drafted a bill asking democratic states to
recognize the Holodomor, the artificially-created famine of 1932-1933, in
Ukraine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Some 233 MPs supported the draft bill (No. 3525) on
Tuesday during a plenary session in the nation's legislature.
"Parliament is appealing to governments of the
world to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as an act of genocide
against the Ukrainian people," the document says.
"Ukraine during 1932 and 1932 suffered a horrible
tragedy – the Holodomor, which claimed millions of lives. The criminal Communist
totalitarian regime by means of confiscation of agricultural produce, blockades
of villages and entire regions, bans of leaving areas where people were
starving in Ukraine, the ruination of agricultural trade, repression against
dissidents. It deliberately created unlivable conditions in Ukraine with the
intent of physically destroying the population. The policy of the regime was
tantamount to a crime against humanity, according to the United Nations
Convention of December 9, 1948 on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly," reads the text of the draft
bill.
Ukrainian MPs noted that parliament on November 28,
2006 passed a law recognizing the Holodomor of 1932 and 1933 as genocide
against the Ukrainian people, and on April 9, 2015 the law On the Condemnation
of the Communist and National-Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine
and Ban on Circulation of its Symbols. The bill condemned the totalitarian
Communist regime, labeling it as criminal.
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