In a resolution of 15 December 2022, the municipal council in Farsund recognized the famine in Ukraine, the Holodomor, as genocide.
(photo fra Farsund municipality TV)
This is the second public recognition that has been made in Norway.
The Holodomor, which means "killing by hunger", was caused by Joseph Stalin's agricultural collectivization policy, because human life meant nothing compared to the regime's gigantic economic and military plans. It is estimated that up to 7 million people died as a result of executions, deportations and starvation during the Stalin-era campaign. It is important to gain knowledge about this Holodomor genocide that happened in 1932-1933, also to prevent similar crimes in the future.
The UN General Assembly adopted a joint declaration on the famine on 10 November 2003, recognizing it as a "national tragedy" for Ukraine.
In a resolution adopted on 28/04/2010, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) strongly condemned "the cruel policies pursued by the Stalinist regime" which triggered the great famine of 1929 in the grain-growing areas of the former Soviet Union, which culminated in 1932- 33. As of December 2015, a number of countries including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Italy, Poland and Germany recognize the famine as an act of genocide.
The resolution (pdf in norwegian)
From left: the mayor of Lyngdal Jan Kristensen, dr. Liliia Honcharevych, Charge'd affair at the Ukrainian Embassy in Norway and the mayor of Farsund Arnt Abrahamsen
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