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Holodomor Recognition: Keep the Flame Alive!

April 18, 2008 -- The International Holodomor Remembrance Flame will arrive in Saskatchewan on Monday, April 28 -- first stop Yorkton.

The Flame, visiting 33 countries, arrives in Canada from Australia today to mark the 75th anniversary of the famine-genocide in Ukraine known as the Holodomor (death by starvation).

The Canadian journey of the Flame entitled Keep the Flame Alive is being organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine. Events will honour the victims of this horrific tragedy while ensuring that the story of the Holodomor is passed along from generation to generation.

Keep the Flame Alive will also launch a national campaign urging the Canadian government to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide.

The Flame will be escorted throughout Canada by Holodomor survivor and Toronto resident, 87-year-old Stefan Horlatsch.

The Holodomor was a deliberate act orchestrated by Stalin’s communist regime to eliminate the Ukrainian nation and its aspirations for independence. As a result, the lives of 10 million Ukrainian men, women and children were eradicated.

Ukraine remembers – the World Acknowledges!

For further information on Canadian Holodomor commemorations contact:
Iryna Mycak Chair, National Holodomor Commemoration Committee
416.919.6566

Ostap Skrypnyk, Executive Director
Ukrainian Canadian Congress
866.942.4627
www.ucc.ca

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