Gareth Jones (1905-1934), the young Welsh investigative journalist,
is revered in Ukraine as a national hero and is now rightly
recognised as the first reporter to reveal the horror of the
Holodomor, the Soviet Government-induced famine of the early 1930s,
which killed millions of Ukrainians. Gareth Jones - Eyewitness to
the Holodomor is a meticulous study of the efforts made by the the
Aberystwyth and Cambridge-educated journalist, a fluent
Russian-speaker, to investigate the Soviet Government's denials,
that its Five Year Plan had led to mass starvation, by visiting
Ukraine in 1933 and reporting what he saw and witnessed: `I walked
along through villages and twelve collective farms. Everywhere was
the cry, "There is no bread. We are dying"'. Determined to alert
the world to the suffering in Ukraine and to expose Stalin's
policies and prejudices towards the Ukrainian people, Jones
published numerous articles in the UK (The Times, Daily Express and
Western Mail) and the USA (New York Evening News and Chicago Daily
News) with headlines such as `Famine Grips Russia. Millions Dying',
but soon saw his credibility and integrity attacked and denigrated
by Soviet sympathizers, most famously by Moscow-based Walter
Duranty of the New York Times. Gareth Jones was killed by bandits
the following year, on the eve of his 30th birthday, whilst
travelling in Japanese-controlled China. There remain strong
suspicions that Jones' murder was arranged by the Soviets in
revenge for his eyewitness reporting which brought global attention
to the Holodomor.
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