FOR UK CITIZENS: To recognise Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, as an act of genocide.

The Holodomor, was engineered by the Soviet government. Seven and a half million people died of starvation over a period of one year. Twenty Five countries have currently recognised this as an act of genocide, as defined by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

Article 2 of the 1948 Convention defines genocide as:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group...............

SIGN PETITION HERE: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/108650/signatures/new

Deadline: 22 March 2016

Petition current totals and further information click here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/108650