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25-05-2009 17:21 Security Service of Ukraine instituted criminal proceedings on charges of genocide activities in Ukraine in 1932 - 1933
In cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, a check was conducted to establish that, after downfall of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1921, the bolshevist rule launched in its territory unlawful activities to prevent the creation of an independent Ukrainian state, aimed at denationalization of Ukraine and its conversion into an administrative territorial unit of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
To this end, the authorities arranged mass forcible collectivization of agriculture, dispossession and deportation of Ukrainian peasant families, illegal confiscation of their property, reprisals and physical elimination of people. The said performance was aimed at organizing hunger to kill the Ukrainians as an ethnic group. Representatives of some other nationalities also fell victim of the authority's crimes. The officials in charge collected evidence of witnesses of the evens in Ukraine during the Holodomor of 1932 - 1933, obtained declassified archives and scientific studies by domestic and foreign scientists, historians and human right activists. In launching these criminal proceedings, the Security Service of Ukraine was guided by the norms and principles of the appropriate international conventions signed by Ukraine. During the investigation, the Security Service will follow the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the Law on the Holodomor of 1932 - 1933.
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