This year marks the 85th anniver­sary of the “Holodomor” or “Death by Hunger” – a man-made famine imposed on Ukraine and its peo­ple by the com­mu­nist regime that result­ed in the delib­er­ate death by star­va­tion of rough­ly ten mil­lion inno­cent Ukrain­ian men, women and chil­dren.

Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion of South Africa is urg­ing you to sign the peti­tion that urge Nation­al Assem­bly of RSA to rec­og­nize the orches­trat­ed famine of 1932–1933 as an act of geno­cide against Ukrain­ian peo­ple by the com­mu­nist regime of USSR. Please sign this peti­tion and share it with your friends so that this crime against human­i­ty is not for­got­ten. We need to stand for each oth­er when geno­cide against peo­ple hap­pens any­where in the world.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/to-recognize-that-the-orchestrated-famine-of-1932–1933-was-an-act-of-genocide-against-ukrainian-people-and-a-crime-against-humanity.html

Dur­ing 1932, the Sovi­et gov­ern­ment increased Ukraine’s grain pro­duc­tion quo­tas by 44%, ensur­ing that they could not be met. Star­va­tion became wide­spread and secret decrees were imple­ment­ed allow­ing arrest or exe­cu­tion of any starv­ing peas­ant found tak­ing as lit­tle as a few stalks of wheat, or a pota­to from the fields he worked. By decree, dis­crim­i­na­to­ry vouch­er sys­tems were imple­ment­ed, and mil­i­tary block­ades were erect­ed around Ukrain­ian vil­lages pre­vent­ing the trans­port of food into the vil­lages and the hun­gry from leav­ing in search of food. Brigades of young activists from oth­er Sovi­et regions were brought in to con­fis­cate hid­den grain, and even­tu­al­ly all food­stuffs from the peas­ants’ homes.

By 1933, Ukraini­ans were dying at the rate of 25,000 peo­ple per day, more than half of which were chil­dren. In the end, up to 10 mil­lion starved to death, 3 mil­lion of which were chil­dren. Stal­in denied to the world that there was any famine in Ukraine, and pre­vent­ed inter­na­tion­al aid from enter­ing the coun­try.

Present­ly, the Holodomor geno­cide has been rec­og­nized by an increas­ing­ly large num­ber of coun­tries includ­ing Aus­tralia, Brazil, Cana­da, Esto­nia, Geor­gia, Hun­gary, Italy, Latvia, Lithua­nia, Mex­i­co, Poland, and the Unit­ed States regard the Ukrain­ian Famine from 1932–1933 as a geno­cide.

On behalf of the “Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion of South Africa” (www.uaza.co.za ) and sup­port­ed by South African cit­i­zens, we urge you to rec­og­nize the Holodomor famine as an act of geno­cide, an atroc­i­ty of unpar­al­leled pro­por­tion and yet anoth­er heinous crime against human­i­ty.

For more infor­ma­tion about Holodomor you can go to http://memorialholodomor.org.ua/eng

We urge the Par­lia­ment to adopt an appro­pri­ate leg­is­la­tion con­demn­ing any and all attempts to deny or mis­rep­re­sent the facts about the Holodomor in Ukraine.

For more infor­ma­tion about Holodomor:

Nation­al Memo­r­i­al of Holodomor: http://memorialholodomor.org.ua/eng

Holodomor: Stal­in’s Secret Geno­cide (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr5WkhEiqcY

Doc­u­men­tary: Ukraine’s Holodomor suf­fer­ing under Sovi­et ‘death by hunger’ pol­i­cy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDgiVgW4iI

(NPO 189 ‑705 Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion in South Africa (UAZA)

Join on our Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion in SA here  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdobcTI_S6PfS3_ngxxme3F8mJ1Xl0mtuNTO0XBkJ-QhSVZKw/viewform