18/05/2022 12:34

Ukraine honors the memory of the victims of the deportation of Crimean Tatars and celebrates the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people

78 years ago, Soviet authorities deported almost 200,000 Crimean Tatars from the peninsula.  Freight cars exported to Siberia and Central Asia.

It was not until the early 1990s that they won the right to return home.

In 2014, following the Soviet policy of genocide, the russian federation occupied the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and began persecuting Crimean Tatars.  Illegal detentions, searches, repressions, bans on religious organizations.

102 Crimean Tatars are persecuted by russia for political and religious reasons.  Of these, 95 are serving illegal sentences in russia, 7 are deprived of their right to freedom of movement and are in the temporarily occupied Crimea under administrative supervision.

With the start of a full-scale war, the racists began persecuting Crimean Tatars in the temporarily occupied cities of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts.

Today, the Crimean Tatar people, together with the whole diverse family of nationalities of Ukraine, are fighting for the independence and sovereignty of our state in the war with the aggressor.

My dear compatriots!  I am sure that together we will win over racism and celebrate it on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine!