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Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
For Immediate Release (Toronto/Calgary)
26 November 1999
Co-ordinating their efforts with an international movement working
to mark the fourth Saturday of every November as a DAY OF
REMEMBRANCE for the millions of Ukrainian victims of the
politically engineered GREAT FAMINE OF 1932-33 IN SOVIET
UKRAINE, Canada's Ukrainian community will be holding a
series of memorial prayer services across Canada tomorrow.
This year special commemorative services will be held in Edmonton,
Calgary and Winnipeg, as each of these cities already has a designated
Genocide-Famine memorial.
As well, across Canada and abroad, Ukrainian parishes and communities
will, acting in concert with the GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE, renew
their calls for bringing those who were responsible for this CRIME
AGAINST HUMANITY to justice. It is thought that at least some of the
communist and Soviet WAR CRIMINALS responsible for this catastrophe
remain alive in Russia, Ukraine, Israel and, possibly, in Canada and the
USA.
According to some scholars over 7 million lives were lost in UKRAINE
during the man-made famine of 1932-33, communist regimes being
responsible, according to the scholars responsible for THE BLACK BOOK
OF COMMUNISM: CRIMES, TERROR, REPRESSION (Harvard
University Press, 1999) for as between 85-100 MILLION VICTIMS in
Europe, Asia and Africa.
Commenting on the importance of this NATIONAL DAY OF
REMEMBRANCE, Mr John B Gregorovich, chair of the UKRAINIAN
CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION, and of CANADIANS
FOR A GENOCIDE MUSEUM, said:
"Just a week before our elected representatives are due to discuss a Private
Member's Bill in the House of Commons which proposes the development
of an inclusive Canadian Genocide Museum in our nation's capital, Ukrainians
worldwide will be remembering the millions of people who fell prey to the
communists, in particular the 7 million who starved during the genocidal
Great Famine of 1932-33."
"We hope that Canada's MPs will recall that genocide, war crimes, and crimes
against humanity devastated many different communities, peoples and nations,
not only in Europe but in Africa and Asia as well, during and even before
the 20th century.
"We call upon all of them, regardless of political affiliation, to support
Mr Assadourian's bill by voting to have it VOTED ON in the House of Commons.
"We believe Canada's MPs should not only talk about the tragedies that
befell many nations and peoples in the past but act to ensure that all the
many millions of murdered victims of genocide, atrocities and crimes against
humanity are remembered, among them the millions of Ukrainians who fell
victim to
Soviet tyranny."
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Mr J B Gregorovich, Chair, UCCLA, (519) 323-9349
Dr L Luciuk, Director of Research, UCCLA, (613) 546-8364
http://www.infoukes.com/uccla
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