Media Advisory -- Ottawa Holodomor (Ukrainian Famine Genocide) Commemoration

OTTAWA, Nov. 26 /CNW/ - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Ottawa, along with members of the Ottawa community, will be commemorating the 1932-1933 Famine Genocide in Ukraine.

When:	Saturday, November 27, 2010
	Human Rights Memorial (Elgin Street at Lisgar)
	2:30 PM

The fourth Saturday in November each year is international Holodomor Memorial Day to commemorate the millions who perished in the genocide-by-famine in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, perpetuated by the Soviet regime of Josef Stalin.

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On May 27, 2008, the House of Commons passed Bill C-459 as an Act to establish a Ukrainian Famine and Genocide ("Holodomor") Memorial Day and to recognize the Ukrainian Famine in 1932-33 as an act of genocide. Several provincial governments have followed suit.

Last month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared the Holomodor to be "one of the great crimes of history," and laid grain at the foot of the national Holodomor memorial in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine. 

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http://www.holodomoreducation.org/
http://www.holodomorsurvivors.ca/

For further information:

Adriana Buyniak-Willson
President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Ottawa Branch
613-255-8213 or [email protected]