For many Crimean Tatars, these abuses are still fresh in their minds: “Russia’s occupation and illegal attempt to annex Crimea has reopened old wounds.”
John Kerry said the list of human rights abuses committed today in Crimea is long and grows longer with each passing week: “Murder, beatings, and the kidnapping of Crimean Tatars and others have become standard fare. Local “authorities” announced that Crimean Tatars will have to vacate their property and give up their land. Crimean Tatars have been assaulted for speaking their language, and Tatar community leader Mustafa Dzhemilev has been banned from returning to his home in Crimea for five years. Thousands of Tatars and others have fled their homes in Crimea, fearful for their safety. Those who remain face a future of repression, discrimination, censorship, limits on freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and the criminalization of dissent. We stand in solidarity with Crimean Tatars today against a new threat to their community. We reaffirm our support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
More than 230,000 Crimean Tatars were forcibly deportated from their homeland in Crimea, which resulted in the massacre of nearly half of this people.
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