Catryna Bilyk (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that 2013 is the 80th anniversary of Holodomor, an enforced famine in Ukraine caused by the deliberate actions of Stalin's Communist Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR];

(b) recalls that it is estimated up to 7 million Ukrainians starved to death as a result of Stalin's policies between 1932 and 1933 alone;

(c) condemns:

(i) these acts aimed at destroying the national, cultural, religious and democratic aspirations of the Ukrainian people, and

(ii) all similar acts during the 20th century as the ultimate manifestations of racial, ethnic or religious hatred and violence;

(d) honours the memory of those who lost their lives during Holodomor;

(e) resolves to annually mark Holodomor on or about the international 'Holodomor Remembrance Day', being 24 November;

(f) joins the Ukrainian Australian community and the international community in commemorating this tragic milestone; and

(g) recognises the importance of remembering and learning from such dark chapters in human history to ensure that such crimes against humanity are not allowed to be repeated.

Question agreed to.