The legal definition of the Holodomor as genocide under the Genocide Convention
Schlagwörter:
Holodomor, Genocide Convention, genocidal intent, Ukrainian nationAbstract
The article addresses the applicability of the definition of genocide in the UN Genocide Convention to the Holodomor of 1932–33 and analyzes the Holodomor under that definition. It takes a four-step approach to prove the elements of the crime of genocide, with a focus on specific genocidal intent. The author identifies the group targeted by the genocide as the ethnically based Ukrainian civic and political nation, arguing that only this specific group could fight for independence and realize its right to self-determination. The author contends that the Holodomor was aimed at the physical destruction of a sufficiently large portion of the Ukrainian national group, undermining its potential, eliminating its aspirations for independence, and achieving a final resolution of the Ukrainian national question.
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