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Rupa Huq, who represents Ealing Central and Acton, raised the question of officially recognizing Stalin’s “forced famine” in Ukraine, which caused death to millions, as an act of genocide by British Government, BBC Ukraine reports.

Huq told the Commons: “It’s an atrocity that was exposed by British journalists yet the British government still fails to acknowledge this as genocide. Could we have an urgent statement on why we haven’t followed other countries in doing this? These people feel swept under the carpet and they need our solidarity, they are under attack again.”

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