Engineered Famines Still Used As Weapon: Ukrainian Envoy

Ukrainian Ambassador Volodymyr Lakomov Saturday said by making the case of the Holodomor as genocide, the government seeking to increase the international community's awareness of the fact that engineered famines were still being used as a weapon and through this awareness to help prevent such deplorable acts elsewhere in the world

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Nov, 2017 ) :Ukrainian Ambassador Volodymyr Lakomov Saturday said by making the case of the Holodomor as genocide, the government seeking to increase the international community's awareness of the fact that engineered famines were still being used as a weapon and through this awareness to help prevent such deplorable acts elsewhere in the world.

The ambassador said this at the opening topical exposition in remembrance of those Ukrainian Compatriots, who were killed by man made artificial Famine-Genocide of 1932-33 (also known in Ukrainian asHolodomor) designed Stalin's Soviet regime, a press release said.

He said since2006, Ukraineofficially marking as�Holodomor�Memorial�Day�on�the�fourth�Saturday�of�November.� The�term�Holodomor�(death�by�hunger)�referred�to�the�starvation�of� seven to ten millions�of�Ukrainians�in�1932�33�as�a�result�of Soviet�policies, he said.

The ambassador said on November 28, 2006, the�Verkhovna� Rada�of Ukraine passed�a Law declaring the�Holodomor�as genocide.

To date,�the legislative bodies�in�a�number�of�countries�throughout�the�world, including Australia, Canada, Poland, the USA�and so on referred to the 1932-1933�Holodomor�as Ukrainian genocide and hoped that Pakistan would soon�join those countries.

By�the�end�of�the�1920s,�Soviet�leader�Joseph�Stalin�decided�to�curtail�Ukraine�s� cultural�autonomy,�launching�the intimidation,arrest,�imprisonment�and�execution�of�thousands�of�Ukrainian�intellectuals,�church�leaders,�as�well�as Communist�Party functionaries�who�had�supported�Ukraine�s�distinctiveness.

At�the�same�time,�Stalin�ordered�the�collectivization�of�agriculture.�The�majority�of�Ukrainians,�who�were�small-scale�orsubsistence�farmers,�resisted.�The�state�confiscated�the�property�of�the�independent�farmers�and�forced�them�to�work�on government�collective�farms.