The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on May 14 adopted an appeal to the international community on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People, with a majority of 310 votes. This document emphasizes the need to stop violations of the rights and freedoms of Crimean Tatars by the Russian Federation. This was reported on his Facebook page by the leader of the Crimean Tatar people and Member of Parliament of Ukraine Mustafa Jemilev.
This is reported by Kyiv24
“Today’s appeal calls on the governments and parliaments of other states to recognize these crimes as acts of genocide, as Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Poland, Estonia, and the Czech Republic have already done, and to unite efforts to hold Russia accountable – for both past and present crimes in occupied Crimea”.
Jemilev emphasized that the policy of the Russian occupiers in Crimea is aimed at the systematic displacement of the indigenous people from their homeland and the mass settlement of the peninsula by citizens of Russia. According to him, this is accompanied by brutal persecution for any expression of disloyalty to the occupiers, prolonged imprisonment even for posts on social media, inhumane torture in places of detention, abductions and killings of people, as well as other methods that indicate the continuation of genocidal practices by Russia against subjugated peoples.
Recognition of the Deportation of Crimean Tatars as an Act of Genocide
The deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 has been recognized as an act of genocide by several countries. Ukraine did so in 2015, Lithuania and Latvia in 2019, Canada in 2022, and Poland, Estonia, and the Czech Republic in 2024. That year, on May 18, the Soviet regime began the forced deportation of nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars from Crimea to Central Asia. In just three days, dozens of train cars were ruthlessly transported from the peninsula, marking one of the most horrific acts of genocide in the history of the Soviet Union.
