Source: https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/holodomor-is-a-genocide/
Timestamp: 2020-08-08 17:58:33
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 9', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 442', 'Art. 7', 'art. 1', 'art. 1', 'Art. 442']

The Holodomor as Genocide | Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду
On December 9, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Genocide Convention. Soviet Ukraine signed the document in 1949, and in 1954 ratified it.
“Article II” of Convention states:
Raphael Lemkin, the author of the word “genocide” and initiator of the Genocide Convention, called the destruction of the Ukrainian nation “a classic example of the genocide”. In accordance with the UN Convention, Lemkin considered the following items as an integral part of the genocide against Ukrainians: starvation of Ukrainian farmers, extermination of Ukrainian intelligentsia and elimination of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
In Ukraine, the first legal act which qualified the crime as genocide was the Law “On the Holodomor of 1932 – 1933 in Ukraine”, passed by the Parliament on November 28, 2006. Article 1 of this document states: “The Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine is an act of genocide of the Ukrainian people.” The law became a political and legal basis for large-scale official investigation of the 1932–1933 crime of genocide in Ukraine.
The criminal case initiated by the Security Service of Ukraine was guided by standards of both national legislation and the international treaties (especially Art. 9 of the Constitution of Ukraine and Art. 3 of the Criminal Code are part of criminal law.
Addition to UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide for it of 1948 it deals with such international legal acts as the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, dated November 4, 1950, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, dated 1966 and The UN Convention “On the Non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity”, dated November 26, 1968.
During the investigation,the intent of the Soviet Union authorities to destroy the Ukrainian nation was proven, which is a priority for recognition of genocidal nature of the crime. The conclusion about the existence of intent to commit genocide and awareness of this can be done with the relevant facts and circumstances. That intention does not have to be clearly stated in the documents or oral expressed in public speeches. It can be argued, based on the facts and circumstances of the crime.
“blacklisting” of districts, population centres, collective farms, and village councils, thus blockading them by military forces, preventing the population from leaving the black-listed areas, authorising the full confiscation of foodstuffs, and prohibiting trading activities;
isolating Ukraine’s territory by task armed groups, military units and militia;
The resolution of the Appeal Court stated: “The pre-trial investigatory body has fully and comprehensively established the specific intent of J.V. Stalin (Dzhugashvili), V.M. Molotov (Skriabin), L.M. Kaganovich, P.P. Postyshev, S.V. Kossior, V.Ya. Chubar, and M.M. Khatayevich to destroy in part specifically the Ukrainian (and not any other) national group. It has also been objectively proven that this intent applied specifically to a part of the Ukrainian national group as such.” The subject of special attention of the Appeal Court was the question of retroaction according to Art. 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Based on the provisions of Art. 7 of the the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and art. 1 of the UN Convention “On the Non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity”, the court acknowledged that was “there are no legal prohibitions to apply Part. 1, Art. 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in reverse time “action of persons who committed the genocide of 1932 – 1933 in Ukraine”.
735 settlements, collective farms, village councils and regions of Ukraine, where the authorities introduced the regime of “black boards”;
Through its activities on bilateral and multilateral levels Ukraine supports the establishment of historical truth and the commemorating of international community the memory of millions of Ukrainians, which was deliberately killed by Stalin’s regime.
Most objections of Holodomor as genocide have been heard from Russia today, which is the successor of the Soviet Union. That trend is very worrying for the citizens of Ukraine. That trend is very worried for the citizens of Ukraine. Annexation of Crimea and the Russian aggression East of Ukraine preceded statements of the Russian Federation about “one nation” Ukrainians and Russians and non-recognition of detached Ukrainian nation. All this is a source of concern to the Ukrainians, who survived the genocide.