The event will take place online.
The event will be held under the slogan “Not convicted yesterday – repeated today.”
“We want to remind Ukrainian and international societies of the terrible crime against humanity, the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944. A total of 238,500 people were deported from the Crimea at that time, and the death toll in the first years was 110,200, or 46.2% of all deportees. It is important to remember those terrible events, especially now that history is repeating itself. The Russian Federation is in fact continuing the practice of the Soviet Union, as the goal of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is the destruction of the Ukrainian people, their identity and culture. The daily mass killings, abductions, and forced relocations of thousands of people, including children, among the civilian population of Ukraine to Russia are all realities of today, ”the Crimean Tatar Resource Center said.
Broadcast of the online rally will be available on several platforms:
- CRC YouTube channel https://cutt.ly/QHQ0jpo
- CRC Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CTRC2015
- ATR TV channel atr.ua/live
“We urge everyone who cares to join the broadcast of the online rally and show their solidarity with the Crimean Tatar people, “the organizers added.
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In May 1944, the NKVD conducted a special operation to forcibly expel the indigenous population from the Crimea. In three days, more than 200,000 Tatars were deported from Crimea (mostly to the Central Asian republics). More than 30,000 of them died of starvation and cold in the first year after deportation.
Repressions were carried out on the basis of a “top secret” resolution of the USSR State Committee for Defense and mass collaborationism. ”
Not only Crimean Tatars suffered from deportation. In June 1944, Greeks, Bulgarians, and Armenians were forcibly evicted from the peninsula. In 1943-1944, the so-called “small” peoples (mostly Caucasians) were deported: Chechens, Balkars, Karachays, Ingush, Nogais, Kalmyks, Kurds, Meskhetian Turks.
Crimean Tatars were given the right to return to history Homeland only after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
At the same time, since the occupation of the peninsula in 2014, Russians in Crimea have again practiced illegal arrests, torture and long terms of imprisonment for dissidents, mostly Crimean Tatars. Because of the risk to their lives, many Crimean Tatars had to leave the occupied Crimea.
