The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is planning to propose to the new parliament to introduce criminal liability for denial of the Holodomor (the 1932-33 man-made famine in Ukraine) and to ban the country's Communist Party, SBU chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said.
“We will put this forward, I am convinced a criminal liability is necessary,” Nalyvaichenko told cadets at the National SBU Academy on Friday, the agency’s press service reported on Friday.
Nalyvaichenko is convinced that the denial of the fact that the Holodomor was a genocide should be criminalized: for instance, in Israel denying Holocaust is a criminal offense. He said that equally important is a legislative ban on the political force which masterminded crimes against the Ukrainians, including the Holodomor.
“Young people have come to parliament, I am certain they will be more united and capable to bring about the necessary changes in our country,” he said.
According to the SBU chief, this is important in order to prevent a repeat of such crimes in the future.
“An answer to the question as to who was destroying us is today important for the whole of Ukraine and global community. It is a question of our country’s national security,” Nalyvaichenko said.
