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The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) is an independent, non-partisan educational and research organization. Established in 1986 after the Civil Liberties Commission (affiliated with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress) was disbanded,[1] its members – all of whom are volunteers – have been particularly active in championing the cause of recognition, restitution and reconciliation with respect to Canada's first national internment operations,[1][2][3][4] helping secure a redress settlement in 2008 (InternmentCanada.ca[2][5]). They have also challenged allegations about "Nazi war criminals" hiding in Canada,[1][6][7] have exposed the presence in Canada of veterans of the NKVD/SMERSH/KGB,[citation needed] have helped raise public awareness about Soviet and Communist war crimes and crimes against humanity[8][citation needed] (in particular about the genocidal Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine, the Holodomor),[7] and have made numerous public representations, articulating the interests of Canada's Ukrainian community.[2][7] The first chairman of the CLC/UCCLA was John B. Gregorovich, a lawyer.[9] The current chairman is Roman Zakaluzny; the immediate past president was Professor Lubomyr Luciuk.[3]

UCCLA's members meet annually during conclaves held in different cities across the country,[citation needed] often co-ordinating their meeting dates with the unveiling of trilingual historical markers commemorating the internment operations at different camp locations[3] or otherwise recalling important individuals or events in Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history.[citation needed] UCCLA and its supporters have also placed several trilingual markers across Canada,[9][10] in Ukraine[7][11] and in France[12] honouring the Ukrainian Canadian Victoria Cross recipient, Cpl Filip Konowal;[13] recalling the contributions of Ukrainian Canadian servicemen and women during the Second World War (London, England)[14][15] and honouring the Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, who exposed the truth about the Holodomor.[citation needed] UCCLA has also commissioned a number of articles and books that have been distributed internationally dealing with the Holodomor,[citation needed] Anglo-American perspectives on the question of Ukraine's independence,[citation needed] the Ukrainian nationalist movement before, during and after the Second World War,[16] and Soviet crimes against humanity and war crimes.[8][citation needed] One of the most successful of UCCLA's campaigns was initiated in 2003/2004 when an effort was made to have the Pulitzer Prize of Walter Duranty, the New York Times correspondent who lied about the Great Famine, revoked – an effort that resulted in considerable international press coverage.[17] It most recent campaign (which began in the late winter of 2010) has been about ensuring that all 12 galleries in the publicly funded Canadian Museum for Human Rights are thematic, comparative and equitable, rather than elevating the suffering of any one or two groups over all others. To that end the Association has distributed thousands of protest postcards nationally and published a notice raising their concerns in The Hill Times (31 January 2011).

UCCLA continues to be a volunteer organization supported by the donations and efforts of thousands of Canadians of Ukrainian heritage.

UCCLA-supported publications

Some of the books and pamphlets published with the support of the UCCLA include:

  • Luciuk, Lubomyr (2006). Without Just Cause: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920. Kingston, Ont.: Kashtan Press.
  • Luciuk, Lubomyr (2001). In Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920. Kingston, Ont.: Kashtan Press.
  • Lubomyr Luciuk and Ron Sorobey, Konowal: A Canadian Hero (Kingston, Ont.: Kashtan Press, 2000)
  • Luciuk, Lubomyr; Sydoruk, Borys, eds. (1997). In My Charge: The Canadian Internment Camp Photographs of Sergeant William Buck. Kingston, Ont.: Kashtan Press.
  • Luciuk, Lubomyr, ed. (1994). Righting An Injustice: The Debate Over Redress for Canada's First National Internment Operations. Toronto: Justinian Press.
  • Gregorovich, John B, ed. (1994). Commemorating An Injustice: Fort Henry and Ukrainian Canadians as "enemy aliens" during the First World War. Toronto: UCCLA.
  • Luciuk, Lubomyr (1988). A Time For Atonement: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920. Kingston, Ont.: Limestone Press.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Guly, The Ukrainian Weekly, Jan. 24, 1993, p. 4 & 17.
  2. ^ a b c The Ukrainian Weekly, Sept. 4, 2005, p. 1 & 4.
  3. ^ a b c The Ukrainian Weekly, Nov. 8, 2009, p. 1 & 18.
  4. ^ Luciuk et. al, Roll Call.
  5. ^ Luciuk and Martin, The Ukrainian Weekly, Sept. 11, 2005, p. 6, 14 & 18.
  6. ^ Guly, The Ukrainian Weekly, Feb. 18, 1996, p. 4.
  7. ^ a b c d The Ukrainian Weekly, Jan. 7, 2001, p. 24-25.
  8. ^ a b The Ukrainian Weekly, Feb. 18, 1996, p. 4 & 15.
  9. ^ a b Lemieszewski, The Ukrainian Weekly, June 29, 1997, p. 8 & 18.
  10. ^ Guly, The Ukrainian Weekly, July 28, 1996, p. 8 & 18.
  11. ^ The Ukrainian Weekly, Sept. 10, 2000, p. 4.
  12. ^ The Ukrainian Weekly, Aug. 28, 2005, p. 1 & 20.
  13. ^ Luciuk and Sorobey, Konowal.
  14. ^ The Ukrainian Weekly, Dec. 31, 1995, p. 19.
  15. ^ The Ukrainian Weekly, Aug. 27, 1995, p. 7.
  16. ^ The Ukrainian Weekly, Jan. 7, 2001, p. 25.
  17. ^ Columbia Journalism Review, p. 43(6); New York Times, p. A-24.

Sources

  • Lubomyr Luciuk and Ron Sorobey, Konowal: A Canadian Hero (Kingston, Ont.: Kashtan Press, 2000)
  • Redressing history's horrors.(Enemy aliens, Prisoners of War and In Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence; bibliography). The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History 83.2 (April–May 2003): p54(2). (1112 words)
  • "Doubts Over a Pulitzer. (Letter to the Editor)". The New York Times. Oct. 28, 2003. p. A24. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); More than one of |at= and |page= specified (help)
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