Victims of the Holodomor remembered amid ongoing warfare in Ukraine

Greater than a dozen individuals gathered within the wind and rain Saturday on the Charlottetown cenotaph to recollect the hundreds of thousands of people that died in Ukraine in 1932-33 in what is named the Holodomor.

In 2009, Canada adopted the Ukrainian Famine and Genocide Memorial Day Act that acknowledges the Holodomor as an act of genocide. It’s marked yearly on the fourth Saturday in November.

Elina Lialiuk, one of many organizers of the Charlottetown occasion, spoke about how the Stalinist regime sought to destroy the Ukrainian nation by turning meals right into a weapon, basically ravenous the individuals demise by confiscating meals and grain.

“Tens of millions of harmless individuals died, and so they died not as a result of they dedicated a criminal offense,” she stated.

“They died as a result of they wished to reside in a free land, they wished to talk their language, they wished to have a good time their traditions and tradition.”

The Holodomor comes 9 months after Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues.

Tetiana Lysak, who got here to Canada two months in the past, stated she worries about her family and friends again in Ukraine.

“It is very important keep in mind about genocide as a result of one other genocide is going on proper now. That is what Russia is doing.”