"The European Parliament's decision to recognize the famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine as a crime against Ukrainians and humanity is correct but incomplete, the head of Russia's Memorial human rights organization Arseny Roginsky said on Thursday.
"We welcome the European Parliament's decision, in particular the qualification, not as 'genocide' but as 'crime against humanity'", Roginsky said.
"But if this decision was related not just to Ukraine but also to the other famine-stricken territories, I would consider it completely right," he said.
"We think it necessary to raise the issue of expanding the European Parliament's decision and changing the qualification: the artificial famine in Ukraine, a whole number of Russian territories and Kazakhstan," Roginsky went on.
He added that Russian human rights defenders had backed the European Parliament's call on former Soviet republics to open archives related to the famine.
Memorial is a leading independent human rights organization dealing with rehabilitation of victims of political repressions in the former USSR.
On Thursday, the majority of European deputies supported a resolution qualifying the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine as a crime against the Ukrainian people and against humanity."
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
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