jueves, 5 de febrero de 2015

Holodomor genocide question

The Holodomor genocide question consists of the attempts to determine whether the Holodomor, the disastrous man-made famine in 1933 that claimed millions of lives in Ukraine, which is recognized as a crime against humanity by the European Parliament, was an ethnic genocide, an unintended result of the "Soviet regime's [re-direction of already drought-reduced grain supplies to attain] economic and political goals'," or democide.
Currently, there is no international consensus among scholars or politicians on whether the Soviet policies that caused the famine fall under the legal definition of genocide. As of April 2008, the parliament of Ukraine and the governments of 19 countries have recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide.
Holodomor
The Ukrainian famine (1932–1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор) (literally in Ukrainian, "death by hunger"), was one of the largest national catastrophes in the modern history of the Ukrainian nation....

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