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The question of whether Kazakhstan's famine of 1930–33 should be called genocide, what historians say, and what the state has said.
1992 –
How Kazakhstan names its famine. The question of whether Kazakhstan’s famine of 1930–33 should be called genocide, what historians say, and what the state has said.
1992
Nursultan Nazarbayev intervened in How Kazakhstan names its famine. A commission set up in 1992 under his auspices called the famine a genocide (Cameron) or an “ethnocide” (RFE/RL); in 2012 he warned against politicising it.
2021
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev intervened in How Kazakhstan names its famine. Said in 2021 that research should be done scientifically, without slogans or sensationalism.
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