27 January 2015, 10:45
STATEMENT
of Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations Hryhorii Nemyria
on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Dear compatriots!
On January 27, the anniversary of liberating prisoners of the concentration camp "Auschwitz-Birkenau" in Oswiecim by the soldiers of the First Ukrainian front, the whole world commemorates victims of Holocaust.
State policy of the Nazi Reich, built on hatred, racism, and prejudice, led to killing millions of Jews in the years of World War II.
We bow our heads in sorrow commemorating innocent victims who died accused of only their ethnicity which is given to every person by God.
Holocaust of the Jewish people is a tragedy not just of one nationality but of the whole civilized world. This is an outcome of a shameful and horrible phenomenon such as genocide. When commemorating victims of Holocaust of the Jewish people, we also commemorate victims of Babyn Yar and Ukrainians who died of Holodomor.
The tragedy of Holocaust shall become a warning to all people of a threat that is caused by supremacy, hatred, and xenophobia.
We wanted to believe that this would never happen in the XXI century, and only memory about those tragic events will stay with us and our descendents. Unfortunately, the latest events in the East of Ukraine prove that imperial anti-human ideology hasn't reached the point of no return. Horrible crimes against humanity, shooting of peaceful civilians in Mariupol, and torturing the captured are realia.
Death of even one person is tragedy. Deaths of civilians, women and children are a horrible crime.
On this day, commemorating victims of Holocaust, we all need to realize that the key task of world society is uniting for preserving peace and preventing those horrible events from happening again.
Paying tribute to victims of Nazism, the Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations calls all people of good will for mutual understanding, respect, and tolerance.