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To recognise Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, as an act of genocide.

Submitted on Wednesday 16th September 2015

Published on Tuesday 22nd September 2015

Current status: Closed

Closed: Tuesday 22nd March 2016

Signatures: 1,904

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To recognise Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, as an act of genocide.

Petition Details

The Holodomor, was engineered by the Soviet government. Seven and a half million people died of starvation over a period of one year. Twenty Five countries have currently recognised this as an act of genocide, as defined by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

Additional Information

Article 2 of the 1948 Convention defines genocide as:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


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