The Constitution should honour the memory of the victims of Holodomor in Ukraine and contain provisions on inadmissibility of denying it, the Razumkov Centre Research Fellow on Legal Issues, retired judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Ph.D (Law) Petro Stetsiuk said at the International Scientific Conference "Genocide of the Ukrainian Nation Organised by the Russian Communist and Putin’s Regimes in the 20th — Early 21st Centuries (timed to the 100th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1921–1223, the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor-genocide of 1932–1933, and the 75th anniversary of the Famine of 1946–1947)".
According to the expert, honouring the memory of millions of innocent Ukrainians killed by hunger in the Constitution not only corresponds to the basic principles of Ukraine as a democratic, social and legal state, but also presents a moral guarantee of the immutability of its European course. The constitutional provision on inadmissibility of denying the famine in Ukraine could lay a proper/civilized basis for establishing legal responsibility for publicly insulting the memory of the many million victims of the Ukrainian people.
The event was organised by the Mykola Drahomanov National Pedagogical University together with the Taras Shevchenko All-Ukrainian Society "Prosvita" and the International Association of Holodomor-Genocide Researchers. It was attended by known domestic and foreign political scientists, lawyers, historians, Armed Forces and territorial defence officers, people's deputies of Ukraine of previous convocations, retired judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, criminologists, independent experts.
