Sunday, November 25, 2007

A brief interruption for a genocide alert

I've blogged a couple of times about the not so well-knownArmenian Genocide, and Turkey's denial of that genocide. It's important to pay attention to genocide, so that the perpetrators cannot deny their actions.

On Nov 25, 2006, the President of the Ukraine, Viktor Yuschenko, decreed that flags be flown at half mast to commemorate the Holodomor, a genocide directed at Ukrainians during the Soviet era. This was apparently in retaliation for Ukrainian resistance to farm collectivization. Estimates of the number of deaths range from 3 to 10 million. That's roughly the whole population of Singapore (4 million), or Michigan

Mike Parker has a video which explains the genocide.


I believe there's a letter writing campaign to pressure the US government to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. There has been talk that the US government knew of the genocide as it was happening, but didn't want to antagonize Russia.

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