‘Russian regime acts like Stalin’: Ukrainian MPs urge EU, UN to remember genocide of Crimean Tatars


Ukrainian MPs have asked the UN, the European Parliament, the OSCE and the Council of Europe to honor the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.

Deputy Sergei Vysotski initiated adopting of the corresponding parliamentary resolution.

“The Russian Federation is pursuing a policy of ethnocide of Crimean Tatars on the peninsula. Crimean Tatars are being driven away from Crimea. We are witnessing a great legion of repressive acts, searches in mosques and arrests of Crimean Tatar activists. Russia is trying to commit the same things as once Stalin did. This time, they are preparing a pseudovoluntary deportation,” Vysotski said Monday at the session of the Verkhovna Rada.

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On May 18, Ukraine will mark the day of the deportation. It is to be recalled that on May 18, 1944 the Soviet authorities started evicting Crimean Tatars from the peninsula. Inthe course of deportation every second person died.

On May 12 Ukrainian performer Jamala will present her song ‘1944’ dedicated to the deported Crimean Tatars at the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm.

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Watch also: Crimean Trap (in English), report by Belsat TV

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