Ukraine marks Soviet-era forced famine: "Ukraine marks Soviet-era forced famine
By ANNA MELNICHUK
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko lights a candle to commemorate victims of the Soviet-era forced famine that killed up to 10 million Ukrainians, in Ukraine's capital Kiev Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005. Ukraine marks the anniversary of the famine that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin provoked as part of his campaign to force Ukrainian peasants to give up their land and join collective farms. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
KIEV, Ukraine -- Olena Tuz was 6 years old when she saw a neighbor throw the body of a naked woman into a pit on the edge of a remote forest in 1932. Flesh had been cut from the body.
'People ate people, mothers ate their own children. They didn't realize what they were doing, they just were hungry,' said Tuz, standing at a thousand-strong rally in the capital Kiev to commemorate victims of the Soviet-era forced famine that killed up to 10 million Ukrainians."
