ACTION ITEM: The Senate's Famine resolution (11/02/03)

ACTION ITEM

The Senate's Famine resolution

In view of the recently revealed pressure from the White House to weaken the Senate's Ukraine Famine Resolution and remove the term "genocide" from it, it is most urgent that Ukrainian Americans and their friends fax letters to Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urging him to support the Ukrainian Famine Resolution, S.Res. 202, as written.

Sen. Lugar's support is essential and critical to the passage of this resolution.

In your letters please stress that the Ukrainian American community is determined that those who would deny the unconscionable act of the Soviet Communist regime in engineering the artificial famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 must not be allowed to sweep this genocide under the rug of history as journalist Walter Duranty of The New York Times tried to do at the time.

Current and future generations need to remember this tragic event so that nothing like it ever occurs again.

Please fax your letter to Sen. Lugar's office, in care of Jessica Fugate, at 202-224-0836. Alternately, you may e-mail Sen. Lugar at senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov, or call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 202-224-4651.

Your action in support of this campaign for historic truth is vital to its success.

- Submitted by Ihor Gawdiak, president, Ukrainian American Coordinating Council.

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