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Date Posted: 27/11/10 1:54:01
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HolodomorA child victim of Holodomor Period 1932–1933 Total deaths 2.6 - 10 millionObservations Considered genocide by thirteen modern states. A part of the Soviet famine of 1932-1933.
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As of March 2008, several governments[18] have recognized the actions of the Soviet government as an act of genocide. The joint statement at the United Nations in 2003 has defined the famine as the result of actions and policies of the totalitarian regime that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians, Russians, Kazakhs and other nationalities in the USSR.[19] On November 28, 2006, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) narrowly passed a law defining the Holodomor as a deliberate act of genocide and made public denial illegal.[20][21] Even though in April 2010 newly elected president Yanukovych reversed Yushchenko's policy on the Holodomor famine,[22] the law has not been repealed and remains in force.[23] On 23 October 2008, the European Parliament adopted a resolution[24] that recognized the Holodomor as a crime against humanity.[25]
On January 12, 2010, the court of appeals in Kyiv opened hearings into the "fact of genocide-famine Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-33". In May 2009 the Security Service of Ukraine started a criminal case "in relation to the genocide in Ukraine in 1932-33".[26] In a ruling on January 13, 2010 the court found Joseph Stalin and other Bolshevik leaders guilty of genocide against the Ukrainians. The court dropped criminal proceedings against the leaders, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Stanislav Kosior, Pavel Postyshev and others, who had all died years before.[27] This decision became effective on January 21, 2010.[28]
On April 28, 2010, the Council of Europe stated that Stalin's regime was guilty of the Holodomor famine that killed millions in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, having rejected several amendments to the resolution, which proposed the Holodomor be recognized as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.[29]
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