Published September 24,2024
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The decrease chamber of the Swiss Federal Assembly on Tuesday acknowledged the “Holodomor” famine as an act of genocide.
In the session of the National Council, which might be adopted by way of livestream, 123 MPs voted in favor of the popularity, and 58 voted in opposition to it. There have been seven abstentions.
The declaration was requested and formulated by the National Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
The time period Holodomor, which implies “killing by hunger” within the Ukrainian language, refers back to the hunger of individuals within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the course of the Soviet Union period within the Thirties.
An estimated three to seven million individuals fell sufferer to the “Holodomor” famine within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since gaining independence in 1991, Ukraine has been in search of worldwide recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide.
The declaration within the Swiss parliament was requested and formulated by the National Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
“The National Council recognizes as an act of genocide acts that are demonstrably systematic, that lead to large-scale and targeted starvation and that are committed with the intention of destroying a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such in whole or in part,” the National Council writes on its web site.
According to the decision, “around four million Ukrainians, around 2 million Kazakhs and several hundred thousand Russians fell victim to starvation as a result of the ‘Holodomor.'”
The decision is now being disseminated by way of the diplomatic community of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, the National Council writes on its web site.
Russia vehemently rejects the genocide label, and calls it a tragedy.
In an announcement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry in 2007, Moscow described the genocide designation of Holodomor as a “one-sided distortion of history.”
”The announcement of the tragic events of those years as ‘genocide’ against the Ukrainian people is a one-sided distortion of history in favor of modern political and ideological guidelines,” the assertion stated.
Source: www.anews.com.tr