Kyiv Post | 14Jan2010 | Interfax-Ukraine
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/57030/
Yushchenko initiates creation of international tribunal for Communist
crimes
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko said he is convinced the decision
made by the Kyiv Court of Appeals in the case involving the 1932-1933
Holodomor in Ukraine will become a precedent for changing the
approaches to the definition of genocide in international law and is
calling for the creation of an international tribunal for Communist
crimes.
Yushchenko has proposed to the leaders of the countries of Eastern
Europe hurt by Communist regimes (Russia, Poland, Georgia, the Baltic
states, etc.) to sign an international agreement on the creation of
such a tribunal outlining the principles of its creation and
activities, and charter, the Ukrainian presidential press service
reported on Jan. 14.
Yushchenko recalled that the Kyiv Court of Appeals on Jan. 13 issued
a ruling in the criminal case investigated by the Ukrainian Security
Service involving the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine, which is believed
to have killed millions of Ukrainian peasants.
"The decision made by the Ukrainian court takes the debate on the
Holodomor from a political to a legal realm. Now the only argument in
this debate can be facts, not political or historical stereotypes and
myths," the president said.
Yushchenko also said he is convinced that this ruling "is an additional
argument for the Ukrainian parliament in favor of introducing criminal
liability for denying crimes against humanity."
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See also (Ukrainian):
http://www.maidan.org.ua/static/news/2010/1263471803.html