1. MELBOURNE: UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY MARK 80th ANNIVERSARY OF HOLODOMOR-FAMINE - GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE IN1932/33
Ms Sonia Ramza to SBS.
Ukraine remembers - the world acknowledges! Nearly three hundreds of people marched through the city to commemorate a forced famine that killed millions of Ukrainians under Soviet rule in the 1930s. Up to 10 million people died in 1932-33 when Soviet leader Josef Stalin engineered a famine in a bid to break the spirit of Ukraine. Ukrainian community members placed white crosses at Fitzroy Gardens to symbolise the victims and then marched to Federation Square for a prayer vigil, speeches and cultural performances… Ms Liana Slipetsky, Chair of the Holodomor-Genocide Commemoration Committee from the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations - speech…
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