Prosecutor’s office investigating deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944
The prosecutor’s office of Crimea at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is investigating the forcible deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from the territory of the former Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1944.
This is reported by the press office of the prosecutor’s office of Crimea.
“The investigation revealed that more than 225,000 Crimean Tatars and persons of other ethnic groups were forcibly deported from the territory of the Crimean Autonomous Republic to unsuitable areas of the Uzbek SSR, Kazakh SSR, Bashkiria and other regions of the Russian SFSR during May-July 1944 by the orders of former heads of the USSR state authorities,” the statement reads.
This crime is being investigated under Part 1 of Article 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (genocide).
November 12, 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as the genocide.
May 18 is the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People from Crimea. On this day in 1944, the first echelon with the Crimean Tatars was sent from Crimea to the Central Asia. More than 180,000 people were deported.
