Wrzesnewskyj Commemorates Holodomor in House of Commons

Ottawa – On Thursday, November 26, Member of Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj, in remembrance of the Holodomor, made the following statement on the floor of the House of Commons on behalf of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and the entire Liberal Caucus:

HOLODOMOR
Mr. Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre, Lib.):  Mr. Speaker, at the height of the Holodomor, the  Kremlin-engineered famine genocide in Ukraine of 1932 to 1933, Zina, a village girl wrote to her city-dwelling uncle: “We have neither bread nor anything else to eat. Dad is completely exhausted from hunger...unable to get on his feet. Mother is blind from the hunger... Uncle... Please do take me, please. I’m still young and I want so much to live a while. Here I will surely die, for everyone else is dying...”

When the Uncle received the letter, he was told of her death.

Hundred by hundred, thousand after thousand, million after million, lay down their starved skin and bone bodies and became one with Ukraine’s fertile black soils, life extinguished.

On November 28th we memorialize the Holodomor. All our resolutions, our statements of Responsibility to Protect are nothing more than fine sounding rhetoric unless each of us makes a pledge of a Responsibility to Intervene, to act when genocidal crimes occur.

Mr. Speaker,  ! NEVER AGAIN!