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The Campaign

Welcome to the Holodomor.org.uk site, associated with the campaign for UK government to recognise the Holdomor, or genocidal famine, of 1932-33 in Ukraine as genocide. The aims of the site are:

To enable people campaigning for recognition of the Holodomor to coordinate their work

To promote awareness of the Holodomor among the British public and politicians.

The Holodomor, or Hunger plague, was a famine engineered by the Soviet Union as part of a series of actions, including mass executions, designed to destroy the Ukrainian nation. Census data reveal a shortfall of 11,000, 000 in the Ukrainian population by 1937. Before and during 1937 large numbers of Ukrainians would be executed in the Great Terror which, although all the Soviet Union was affected, had a specifically Ukrainian dimension.

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Steve Komarnyckyj is the editor of this site. if you have any queries please contact him at: steve(at)writerandtranslator.co.uk

For information about the events designed to raise awareness of the Holodomor and contemporary genocides please see www.rockagainstgenocide.co.uk

Holodomor.org.uk is pleased to announce the development of a new campaign for Holodomor recognition and for combatting genocide- Rage Against GEnocide was launched with a concert on April 13th, Rock Against GEnocide. The next concert is at 7pm on 25th May at the Fiddler's Elbow in Camden

For further information please visit

www.rockagainstgenocide.co.uk

www.myspace.com/bandsfordarfur

We would like to thank everyone who signed the petition to the government- you will find their response here

and the lamentable research note outlining their arguments here. I also advise you to read the e mail from the expert approving the note here. However the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is withholding information about the drafting of the document on the grounds that it might damage relations with Ukraine.

holodomor.org.uk of course will not accept that starving people to death to destroy a nation is not genocide- the campaign continues. A selection of the research that the government has ignored will be published on the site over the coming weeks and our letter writing campaign will be relaunched- further demonstrations will be organised under the RAGE over the coming months as we ask our government to display compassion and courage.

HOLODOMOR 1932-33