It certainly is fitting that on the same day that politicians from across Europe are recognizing and honouring the memory of Babyn Yar at ceremonies led by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, that at the United Nations in New York, Ukraine is appealing to the UN to recognize the massive Soviet-engineered famine of 1932-33 as genocide.
Foreign minister Borys Tarasiuk appealed to the United Nations to recognize Stalin's artificial, forced famine of 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people, deliberately organized by Stalin's totalitarian regime in order to destroy the basis of the Ukrainian nation – the peasantry.
He made the appeal in his address to the UN General assembly in New York. Tarasiuk said the UN should condemn the Holodomor as genocide in two years time, when the 60th anniversary of the UN Convention on Genocide will be marked. Ukraine lost over 10 million people, a quarter of its population in the Soviet-engineered famine.
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