Between 1932 and 1933, Ukrainians experienced what Prime Minister Stephen Harper called “one of the great crimes of history,” the Holodomor. Each year on the fourth Saturday of November, we pay our respects to the victims of the Holodomor on Ukrainian Famine and Genocide Memorial Day. This day of commemoration is a solemn occasion when we raise international awareness about this act of genocide, and make sure that the victims of the Holodomor are never forgotten. Indeed, Canada is proud of the fact that we became the first country in the world to recognize that this deliberate starvation of millions of men, women and children was an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:07:00 +0000