You're reading: Wales Online: Welsh journalist hailed for Ukraine famine reporting

A former Western Mail reporter who exposed a 1930s famine in the Soviet Union that took up to 10 million lives has been hailed as one of journalism’s greatest “eyewitnesses of truth”.

Now the testimony of Gareth Jones is being used in a bid to have the famine, most of whose victims died in Ukraine, recognized officially as a “Holodomor”, or genocide.

This week American university professor Ray  Gamache, from King’s College, Pennsylvania,  has been addressing meetings in Aberystwyth and Cardiff about his new book Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor.

Read more here.