• At the same time the Soviet regime was dumping 1.7 million tons of grain on Western markets.
  
  
• The famine was engineered by the Soviet regime.
  
  
• It was an act of genocide designed to undermine the social basis of Ukrainian national resistance.
  
  
• At the height of the Famine, Ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate of:

         17 per minute,
       1,000 per hour,
     25,000 per day 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

April 18: Official Opening of Holodomor: Genocide by Famine Exhibit at Toronto's City Hall (see also: MEDIA ADVISORY) runs to April 26.

April 18 - May 26: Keep the Flame Alive - Remembrance Flame
in Canada

May 30: Counterpoint Chorale presents Requiem: In Honour of the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor Famine in Ukraine

June 30: UCC Writing Competition Deadline