December 9, Ukraine, together with the whole world, honors the memory of millions of innocent victims of genocides. On this day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine addressed the international community, the press service of the department informs.
“Today the world is familiar with convincing facts showing that the organization of an artificial mass famine, which led to multimillion human casualties among Ukrainians in 1932-1933, and the forced eviction of hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars from the Crimean Peninsula in 1944, were crimes of genocide committed by the Stalinist government.
Despite the established facts, irrefutable evidence of witnesses, shocking documents and archival materials, the Russian Federation continues to deny the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide by the Soviet regime against the Ukrainian people. This also applies to the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944.
In 2015, the Russian Federation included an article by Raphael Lemkin, the founder of the study of the crime of genocide, “Soviet genocide in Ukraine” in the so-called list of extremist materials.
The fact that Ukraine continues to suffer from external aggression and violence that was unleashed by the Russian Federation in 2014 in combination with the attempted annexation of Crimea confirms that the lack of recognition and condemnation of past crimes, as well as the assertion of respect for human and civil rights and freedoms, paves the way for flagrant violations of universal norms and rules, including crimes against humanity.
Ukraine calls on the international community to join efforts to prevent discrimination against a person on any grounds and prevent the repetition of such crimes, including by restoring and preserving historical memory,” the official commentary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says.
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