I now move on to 90-second statements—Mick Antoniw.

Thank you. We're not very good in Wales at celebrating some of our most famous sons and daughters. Often they are better known outside Wales than inside, and this must change. Gareth Jones is celebrated in Ukraine for being one of the few journalists to expose the Holodomor in the years of 1931-32—Holodomor, death by starvation, Stalin's artificial famine, which led to the death of an estimated 7 million to 10 million Ukrainians. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Gareth Jones shunned the wining and dining provided for journalists in Moscow and went by foot to see for himself. What he saw appalled him. The cover-up appalled him. He wrote about it and exposed it and was condemned by those very same journalists. The famine is now well documented. One survivor wrote:

'The famine was artificial by nature. In our village 500 people died and 750 died in the neighbouring village. My father gave out buckwheat and he was arrested the following day.'

During his March 1933 off-limits walking tour, he witnessed the famine first-hand and reported:

'Everywhere was the cry, "There is no bread. We are dying...We are waiting for death".'

During the famine, around 20 to 25 per cent of the population of Soviet Ukraine was exterminated, including a third of Ukraine's children. When Stalin was told that his orders would result in the death of millions, his response was, 'Who will ever know?' Because of Welsh journalists such as Gareth Jones, we do know.