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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko said on Saturday it was time to apportion blame for the man-made famine that killed millions of his compatriots under Soviet rule in the 1930s.
Yushchenko was addressing a candlelight ceremony marking the 1932-33 famine induced by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's orders to requisition grain and break the spirit of Ukraine's "kurkuly" farmers who resisted his drive to collectivise agriculture.
The day had been chosen as the official commemoration day for the famine that was never recognised by the Soviet Union.
The president told 5,000 people in a Kiev square that up to 10 million died in the famine and pressed his case for the United Nations' to declare it a genocide. Historians' estimates put the figure at about 7.5 million. "The famine was a crime against humanity which had perpetrators, but from the legal standpoint, no guilty parties have been found," Yushchenko said before kneeling by a monument to the victims erected in the 1990s.
"A murderer may be found responsible for killing one person, but for the destruction of millions, no one is held responsible. Perhaps this is why we in Ukraine have such difficulty today restoring the rule of law, good and social justice."
Yushchenko said the failure of the Communist system to repent for the famine "stood behind further misfortunes. Perhaps this is why we encounter such difficulty in changing our consciousness, haunted by fear and ideological slavery."
The pro-Western Yushchenko, brought to power on a wave of "Orange Revolution" rallies against election fraud, says freedom of speech is one of the chief gains of his first year in office.
He has pledged to improve the judicial system and develop post-Soviet civil society. Officials vow to pursue prominent criminal cases -- notably the murder of an investigative journalist in 2000 and the dioxin poisoning the president suffered during last year's election campaign.
Mourners placed 33,000 candles in Mykhailov Square, corresponding to the number of lives the famine claimed daily at its height. Flags on public buildings bore black ribbons.
The sound of a young woman wailing wafted through loudspeakers and the names of countless victims were read out.
The systematic confiscation of grain and livestock in Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, left millions to die in their homes or in the street, with soldiers dumping bodies into pits. Cannibalism became rife.
The famine was only commemorated after the fall of Soviet rule as Communist authorities for decades denied it had taken place. Historians have also focused on mass famines which beset Ukraine in 1921 in the "confused" aftermath of the (Jew led )Bolshevik Revolution and in 1946 after World War Two.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko said on Saturday it was time to apportion blame for the man-made famine that killed millions of his compatriots under Soviet rule in the 1930s.
Yushchenko was addressing a candlelight ceremony marking the 1932-33 famine induced by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's orders to requisition grain and break the spirit of Ukraine's "kurkuly" farmers who resisted his drive to collectivise agriculture.
The day had been chosen as the official commemoration day for the famine that was never recognised by the Soviet Union.
The president told 5,000 people in a Kiev square that up to 10 million died in the famine and pressed his case for the United Nations' to declare it a genocide. Historians' estimates put the figure at about 7.5 million. "The famine was a crime against humanity which had perpetrators, but from the legal standpoint, no guilty parties have been found," Yushchenko said before kneeling by a monument to the victims erected in the 1990s.
"A murderer may be found responsible for killing one person, but for the destruction of millions, no one is held responsible. Perhaps this is why we in Ukraine have such difficulty today restoring the rule of law, good and social justice."
Yushchenko said the failure of the Communist system to repent for the famine "stood behind further misfortunes. Perhaps this is why we encounter such difficulty in changing our consciousness, haunted by fear and ideological slavery."
The pro-Western Yushchenko, brought to power on a wave of "Orange Revolution" rallies against election fraud, says freedom of speech is one of the chief gains of his first year in office.
He has pledged to improve the judicial system and develop post-Soviet civil society. Officials vow to pursue prominent criminal cases -- notably the murder of an investigative journalist in 2000 and the dioxin poisoning the president suffered during last year's election campaign.
Mourners placed 33,000 candles in Mykhailov Square, corresponding to the number of lives the famine claimed daily at its height. Flags on public buildings bore black ribbons.
The sound of a young woman wailing wafted through loudspeakers and the names of countless victims were read out.
The systematic confiscation of grain and livestock in Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, left millions to die in their homes or in the street, with soldiers dumping bodies into pits. Cannibalism became rife.
The famine was only commemorated after the fall of Soviet rule as Communist authorities for decades denied it had taken place. Historians have also focused on mass famines which beset Ukraine in 1921 in the "confused" aftermath of the (Jew led )Bolshevik Revolution and in 1946 after World War Two.
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