Despite nearly 10 years of arguing the Holodomor should be featured more prominently in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress is still not happy.
UCC executive director Taras Zalusky said Monday his organization and membership, which held a town-hall meeting on the issue Sunday, are upset both the Holodomor — which saw millions of people in Ukraine die in a man-made famine — and the forced internment of Ukrainian-Canadians during the First World War are not receiving a prominent and permanent exhibit and gallery in the museum.
“Our concerns are the same and they’ve been the same all along,” Zalusky said. “We’ll only have one chance to get this right. We want a fair and balanced treatment on these tragedies.
“We came out on April 11, 2003, supporting the museum, but it’s getting harder and harder to support the museum.”
UCC president Paul Grod said in a statement that after a tour of the museum in February, he was also upset about part of the museum’s layout.
