Colombia has recognized the Holodomor famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933 as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
The statement reads that Ukraine's Embassy in Peru and Colombia with residence in Peru has received a signed and registered copy of a resolution, adopted by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia, which recognized the Holodomor in Ukraine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation.
"The lower house of the parliament of Colombia condemned the genocide that victimized 7 million of Ukrainians, as well as all signs of totalitarianism and any crimes against humanity in all of forms," the statement reads.
The resolution reads that the Holodomor famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 was a consequence of the policy of terror, carried out by the totalitarian state in order to terminate the nation.
The House of Representatives also decided to give the resolution to Charge d'Affaires of Ukraine in Peru Oleksii Liashko, that he pass it to Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko and the whole Ukrainian nation.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Ecuador, the City Council of Rome (Italy) and Peru have recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide against the Ukrainian nation.
President Viktor Yuschenko declared 2008 the year of remembrance of the Holodomor victims.
In 2006, the Ukrainian parliament declared the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Between 3 million and 7 million people died in the Holodomor, according to various estimates.
Moreover, according to some historians, there were also famines in Ukraine in 1921-1923 and 1946-1947.
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