The Ukrainian Weekly 2003, No.32

www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Kyiv court orders closing of youth library — page 3. • Detroit community honors Cardinal Lubomyr Husar — page 9. • Plast campground celebrates 50th anniversary — centerfold. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine ResolutionsT marking U W 70th anniversary of Famine Ukrainianby Roman Woronowycz Gift of Life’sheart surgerysuccess in the U.S. based on simpleSeventy-six desire of the 83 to procedures help Kyiv Press Bureau In Kyiv on July 12 they were feted at undertaken in the United States have introduced in Senate, House an afternoon reception and were part of been surgeries, with two children return- KYIV – When George Kuzma decid- a press conference. In Lviv the follow- ing for additional procedures. All except ed to get into charity work after inadver- ing week they visited the Lviv Regional for one have been successful. The WASHINGTON – Resolutions com- tently becoming involved in a project memorating the 70th anniversary of the Hospital-Surgical Center and took part youngest child to be operated on was sponsored by Rotary International, he in a reunion with more than 500 friends barely 4 months old, while the oldest Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932- was thinking in limited economies of 1933 have been introduced in both the and family members of the children who was in her teens. scale. He was fairly certain that he could United States Senate and the House of have benefited from the project, a group UGOL has tried to have surgery per- convince Northern New Jersey Rotary Representatives. that included Lviv Mayor Lubomyr formed in Ukraine whenever possible District 7090 to extend medical support The Senate version (S. Res. 202) was Bunyak. One child who had been part of because costs are much lower and the to children from Ukraine with congenital introduced by Sen. Ben Nighthorse the program, now 16 years old, traveled quality and standard of care for most heart defects, as it was doing for disad- Campbell (R-Colo.), co-chairman of the to the reunion with her mother from types of surgical procedures are compa- vantaged children in other countries. U.S. Helsinki Commission, on July 28 Crimea – a distance of some 1,100 rable to U.S. standards. About 100 and was referred to the Committee on However, Mr. Kuzma, 58, a business miles. young children have received treatment consultant, did not imagine that his pet Foreign Relations. The resolution is 183 children have benefitted in this way. being co-sponsored by Sens. George project, named Ukrainian Gift of Life However, when Ukrainian hospitals Voinovich and Mike DeWine, both (UGOL), would achieve such wide- Since the organization Mr. Kuzma have lacked the expertise or the equip- Republicans of Ohio. spread success and give so much hope to founded began cooperating with the ment – as more often has been the case – The version before the House of Ukrainian kids and their parents. Rotary-sponsored Gift of Life program to give a child the help he would receive Representatives (H. Con. Res. 254) was “Not in our wildest dreams did we in 1996, UGOL has raised nearly in a U.S. medical institution, UGOL has introduced by Rep. Sander Levin (D- believe it would grow like this,” $250,000 to provide life-saving heart made arrangements in the U.S. Most Mich.), co-chair of the Congressional exclaimed Mr. Kuzma in Kyiv, where he surgery and intervention procedures to often these cases have arisen in situa- Ukrainian Caucus, on July 24 and was led a group of 16 people, members of six 183 infants and children from Ukraine. tions where the child was under the age referred to the House Committee on American families, on a reunion tour to While a majority of the procedures have of 2 – ironically, the time when correc- International Relations. It is being co- reacquaint themselves with the young been performed in Lviv at the Lviv tive procedures are most successful. sponsored by Reps. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) Ukrainian kids they had sponsored for Regional Hospital-Surgical Center, 83 Unfortunately, Ukraine’s hospitals are and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), co-chairs of stays in the U.S. The U.S. families had have taken place in the United States – ill-equipped to handle infant surgery. the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. provided lodging and support, including most at Montefiore Hospital in the A child comes to the U.S. for surgery The resolutions both affirm the exis- food, transportation and financial back- Bronx, N.Y., but also at Hope Hospital after the UGOL’s chief consultant in tence and severity of the Famine. The ing to mothers, fathers and, of course, in Chicago and St. Joseph’s Hospital in House version states that at least 7 mil- the children who had undergone open Paterson, N.J. (Continued on page 8) lion Ukrainians died during the Famine, and the Senate version writes that 25 per- cent of Ukraine’s rural population was Ukrainian AN-124 killed during that time. (The texts of both Ukrainian troops depart for Iraq resolutions appear at the end of this story on pages 18-19.) detained by Canada Both versions also attribute Joseph Stalin’s motives to more than just a awaits court action desire for collectivization. The House resolution describes “a policy of forced by Roman Woronowycz collectivization that sought to destroy Kyiv Press Bureau Ukrainian aspirations for independence,” while the Senate resolution writes of KYIV – Nearly two months after Stalin “using food as a political weapon Canadian authorities detained one of the to achieve the aim of suppressing any world’s largest planes, the Antonov-124 Ukrainian expression of political and Ruslan, owned by a Ukrainian govern- cultural identity and self-determination.” ment corporation, Ukraine and Canada The resolutions both mention Stalin’s have agreed that a Canadian court should policy of exporting grain to the West resolve the diplomatic dispute that has even as Ukrainians were starving at an arisen from the controversial detention. alarming rate, as well as Stalin’s cover- The Federal Court of Canada will hear up of the Famine. Additionally, both the case on August 26 to decide whether explicitly call the Famine a genocide. Canada lawfully took control of the The House version notes that the United plane in response to a request from the States Commission on the Ukraine Stockholm Arbitration Court of Sweden. Famine formed in 1985 had deemed the AP/Efrem Lukatsky Canada’s Foreign Ministry has stated event a genocide, and the Senate resolu- that the incident has “no political con- tion writes that “the man-made Ukraine KYIV – A Ukrainian Orthodox priest blessed members of the 5th Detached text” and “was solely a civil case,” Famine of 1932-1933 was an act of according to Interfax-Ukraine. genocide as defined by the United Motorized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a prayer ceremony at Boryspil Airport outside Kyiv on August 7 prior to its departure to Iraq. The 69 Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry Nations Genocide Convention.” spokesman Oleksander Horkov said on troops then boarded a Ukrainian aircraft for the three-hour flight to Baghdad where While introducing the resolution, Sen. August 5 that Canada’s Foreign Ministry they are to join other troops of the international peacekeeping force within the Campbell made a statement on the floor and its National Defense Department Polish sector as part of the U.S.-led stabilization force. Another 276 Ukrainian of the Senate, saying, “This year marks have not excluded that a diplomatic reso- peacekeepers left on four other flights from Kyiv and Mykolaiv the same day. the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s man- lution to the issue is still available. made famine, one of the most heinous Minister of Defense Yevhen Marchuk, who addressed the troops at the send-off, “Canadian officials have indicated a crimes in a century notable for events said that in fulfilling their mission they were helping to further Ukraine’s national preparedness to help reach an objective that demonstrated the cruelty of totalitar- interests as part of a Western peacekeeping coalition and in sharing knowledge (Continued on page 18) and techniques with NATO member-countries. (Continued on page 15) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2003 No. 32 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Mustafa Jemilev speaks of righting Suspect in Gongadze murder dies Kuchma sacks more oblast chiefs injustices inflicted on Crimean Tatars KYIV – Ihor Honcharov, a former KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma fur- policemen and reputed crime boss impli- ther asserted Kyiv’s authority over regional by Charles Carlson housing and preserve their language and cated in the slaying of Ukrainian opposi- governments on July 30, sacking the gover- RFE/RL Newsline culture. tion journalist Heorhii Gongadze, died on nors of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia RFE/RL spoke with Mr. Jemilev dur- August 1 in an ambulance en route from oblasts, respectively, Mykola Shvets and The Crimean Tatars are a Turkic peo- ing a recent conference in Berlin that jail to a hospital, Interfax reported on Yevhen Kartoshov, Interfax reported. The ple who inhabited the Crimean focused on the plight of deported peoples August 5. The news agency quoted the move came one day after Mr. Kuchma dis- Peninsula, now part of Ukraine, for more from the former Soviet Union. Institute for Mass Information (IMI), the missed the chairmen of the Poltava and than seven centuries. They established Ukrainian branch of government watchdog Chernivtsi oblasts, and one week after the their own khanate in the 1440s and May marked the 59th anniversary Reporters Without Borders.

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