deportation of Crimean Tatars

Ukrainian Parliament recognizes deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide
News - 12 November 2015

Ukrainian Parliament recognizes deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide

Mustafa Dzhemilev described this as "the first step towards the restoration of justice."

Crimean Tatar Deportation Victims Commemorated on Maidan
News - 18 May 2015

Crimean Tatar Deportation Victims Commemorated on Maidan

Crimean Tatars gathered in Independence Square in Kyiv to commemorate the victims of the 1944 deportation. In Simferopol, participants of an auto rally in commemoration of the tragedy were detained

Crimean Tatars Mark Anniversary Of Deportations
Articles - 18 May 2015

Crimean Tatars Mark Anniversary Of Deportations

Crimean Tatars in Ukraine are marking the 71st anniversary of a mass deportation, ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, which displaced around 200,000 people and cost many thousands of lives

Whose ’mass provocation’? Crimean Tatar Deportation remembrance gathering banned
Articles - 09 May 2015

Whose ’mass provocation’? Crimean Tatar Deportation remembrance gathering banned

Just hours after threats from Crimea’s ‘prosecutor’ that Ukrainian ‘nationalists and radicals’ could expect to be jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea, claims have been made of ‘mass provocation’ planned around the anniversary of the 1944 Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People on May 18

Crimean Tatars Not Allowed to Gather on Anniversary of Deportation
News - 08 May 2015

Crimean Tatars Not Allowed to Gather on Anniversary of Deportation

The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people is planning to gather five thousand people at the memorial rally on May 18 in Simferopol

Crimean Tatars Will Commemorate Deportation Victims on Chatyr-Dag Mountain
News - 05 May 2015

Crimean Tatars Will Commemorate Deportation Victims on Chatyr-Dag Mountain

Crimean Tatar youth will climb to the top of Chatyr-Dag in order to commemorate the victims of the deportation. Participants will conduct a prayer and sing the national anthem

Occupation Regime proposes “Day of Joy” instead of Crimean Tatar Deportation Anniversary
Articles - 07 April 2015

Occupation Regime proposes “Day of Joy” instead of Crimean Tatar Deportation Anniversary

Top figure in Russian-occupied Crimea has proposed that the “cult” of May 18 – the anniversary of the Deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar People in 1944 should be stopped and Crimeans should instead celebrate a "day of joy"

Chubarov Reacts to Opening of Stalin Monument in Crimea
News - 06 February 2015

Chubarov Reacts to Opening of Stalin Monument in Crimea

Those who defended the installation of a monument to Stalin in Livadia, will "be uprooting it with their bare hands