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06.02.2010
Only seven people came to bury him. He rests beneath a simple stone in New York’s Mount Hebron cemetery, the sole clue to his historical importance an inscription incised below his name - “Father Of The Genocide Convention.” As a graduate student I was obliged to read his book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress, frankly more door-stopper than page-turner. Nowadays, with advocates for “humanitarian intervention” shilling the notion of a “duty to intervene” whenever and wherever necessary to “stop genocide,” Dr. Raphael Lemkin’s name and words are better known. After all he fathered the term “genocide” by combining the root words... |
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18.10.2009
Honourable Madame Chancellor, We are writing to you in the matter of Mr. John Demjanjuk, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, who has been stripped of his US citizenship and deported from the United States to Germany at the request of German authorities. As you undoubtedly know, Mr. Demjanjuk was accused in the past of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II, including, in particular, of being the notorious guard called “Ivan the Terrible” in the infamous Treblinka extermination camp. He was stripped of his US citizenship and extradited in 1986 to stand trial in Israel on these charges. He was convicted in 1988 based on faulty eye witness identification and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. However... |
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04.06.2009
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics officially came to an end in December 1991. President Yeltsin apparently, forgot to tell the USSR Permanent Mission to the UN. On May 5, 2009 the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations held a briefing entitled “The Outcome and Lessons of World War II and the Present” at the UN headquarters in New York. The event was opened and presided over by Ilya Rogachev, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN. In his opening remarks Mr. Rogachev said... |
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04.06.2009
On May 22, 2009 the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) launched a criminal case against the perpetrators of the Genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933 under Article 442 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. "The case was started in response to the appeals of the Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Ihor Yukhnovsky, MPs Hryhoriy Omelchenko and Oleksandr Chernovolenko and numerous demands by Ukrainian citizens to investigate the evidence of genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933," stated the SBU press center... |
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09.05.2009
 Twenty thousand Ukrainians gathered on a remote plateau in the Carpathians in mid-March to honor those who fought for the independence of Carpatho-Ukraine that was declared as Europe braced for WWII. In Ukraine, the exact start (and end) dates of WWII depend on the history textbook you’re reading. Soviet apologists prefer to downplay the period of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact... |
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09.05.2009
The Holodomor Memorial Day Act, Private Member’s Bill 147 recognizing the Holodomor as an act of genocide was passed by the Parliament of Ontario on April 9, 2009. The Bill declared Holodomor Memorial Day on the fourth Saturday in November of each year in the province of Ontario, The passage of the bill represented the culmination of an arduous process that started more than two years ago. Then Minister of Labour and... |
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03.04.2009
 The Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union held its 51st annual Congress at St. Vladimir Institute in Toronto from February 20-22, 2009. Over 65 delegates arrived from post-secondary institutions all across Canada, including representatives from three newly-established Ukrainian student organizations. Participation nearly doubled for this, the second Congress since the revival of SUSK in Winnipeg in October of 2007. The Congress kicked off Friday... |
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03.04.2009
One of the greatest hidden tragedies of the twentieth century, on a scale comparable to that of the Holocaust, is the Soviet sponsored famine that ravaged Ukraine in 1932-33. Canada, unlike other countries, has officially recognized the Holodomor as genocide in 2008, only two years after Ukraine. International Holodomor Memorial Day, the last Saturday of every November, is monumental for civil liberties, as years of Russian and international denials have concealed this event from the public eye. Decades of history censored and rewritten... |
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03.04.2009
 On March 9 the Editorial Board of The Winnipeg Free Press was named recipient of the John Syrnick Award for Journalism. For the third time, the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko awarded its Syrnick Journalism award. According to Shevchenko Foundation President Andrij Hladyshevsky, Q.C., "The Winnipeg Free Press was chosen for best sustained coverage in 2008 of the 1932-33 Holodomor, a famine/genocide of historical significance to the Free World and the Ukrainian Canadian community.” |
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06.02.2009
 On January 22, 2009, Ukrainians around the world commemorated a significant day in their nation's history - the 90th anniversary of Unity Day. After centuries of foreign domination, the Act of Unity, merged the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian Republic into a single Ukrainian State. Although this period of sovereignty was short...
Members of the Ukrainian Youth Association, Etobicoke Branch, and Barvinok Dance Ensemble participate in opening ceremonies of Unity Day program in Toronto. At left, narrator Larysa Bajus. |
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