(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, NOV 25 - Germany is to declare the 1930s
starvation of millions in Ukraine under Joseph Stalin a
"genocide", adopting language used by Kyiv, according to a draft
text seen by AFP on Friday. The joint resolution by deputies
from Germany's centre-left-led coalition and the opposition
conservatives is also intended as a "warning" to Russia as
Ukraine faces a potential hunger crisis this winter due to
Moscow's invasion. Lawmakers plan to vote on the resolution next
Wednesday following Ukraine's memorial day for the Holodomor, as
the famine is known, which falls on the last Saturday in
November each year. The Holodomor belongs on "the list of
inhuman crimes by totalitarian systems in which millions of
human lives were wiped out" in the first half of the 20th
century, the draft text reads, including those committed by Nazi
Germany. "People across Ukraine, not just in grain-producing
regions, were impacted by hunger and repression," an
orchestrated policy that "meets the historical-political
definition from today's perspective for genocide". German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock
lent their backing to the parliamentary declaration on Friday
via their spokespeople. (ANSA-AFP).
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