Monday, January 26, 2009

Death by Starvation

Lately, the media keeps talking about financial crisis all over the world. Many people died because of starvation. Like the country of Africa; they don't have enough food or water to drink. They have no place to live or clothes to wear. This is real...and it has been real for a long, long time.

Have you heard about holodomor? According to Wikipedia, the Holodomor is a Ukrainian word that has the meaning of death by starvation. The famine was caused by the food requisition actions carried out by Soviet authorities. The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest national catastrophes to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern history where millions of inhabitants of Ukraine died of starvation in an unprecedented peacetime catastrophe. Is that something? Many numbers of innocent died during this time. The saddest was some Ukrainian politicians, including Viktor Yuschenko, have recently argued that the famine may have been designed as an attack on Ukraine, and therefore, should fall under the legal definition of genocide. I don't know the whole story about this, but if this is the truth I pity them, especially the children. My prayers are that God will intervene in the midst of them and give them freedom from famine, starvation and even given them peace!

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