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1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold

published Thu, Nov 12 2009 18:05 GMT
Correspondent who exposed Soviet Ukraine's manmade famine to be focus of new documentaryIn death he has become known as "the man who knew too much" – a fearless young British reporter who walked from one desperate, godforsaken village to another exposing the true horror of a famine that was killing millions.Gareth Jones's accounts of what was happening in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33 were different from other western accounts. Not only did he reveal the true extent of starvation, he reported on the Stalin regime's failure to deliver aid while exporting grain to the west. The tragedy is now known as the Holodomar and regarded by Ukrainians as genocide.Two years after the articles Jones was killed by Chinese bandits in Inner ...

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