genocide of Crimean Tatars

Petition calls on German Bundestag to recognize Soviet crimes against Crimea’s indigenous people – Crimean Tatars
News - 03 October 2024

Petition calls on German Bundestag to recognize Soviet crimes against Crimea’s indigenous people – Crimean Tatars

Over 46% of the Crimeans (Crimean Tatars) perished from hunger, disease, forced labour, and inhumane living conditions within the first few years following the deportation 1944

Ukrainian parliament calls for global recognition of 1944 Crimean Tatar deportation as genocide
News - 12 September 2024

Ukrainian parliament calls for global recognition of 1944 Crimean Tatar deportation as genocide

Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, and Poland have already officially recognised the deportation of Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide

De-identified Crimea: Occupying state massively eradicates ethnic celebrations – Amnesty International
News - 23 May 2024

De-identified Crimea: Occupying state massively eradicates ethnic celebrations – Amnesty International

Amnesty International concluded, that Russia has had ten years to implement its policies designed to alter the ethnic makeup of and suppress non-Russian identities in Crimea

80 Years of Pain: Ukraine calls for recognition of 1944 Crimean Tatar genocide on 80th anniversary
Articles - 10 May 2024

80 Years of Pain: Ukraine calls for recognition of 1944 Crimean Tatar genocide on 80th anniversary

ZMINA explains how the deportation of Crimean Tatars took place, what the Ukrainian parliament is calling for, and why it is important

In Simferopol Crimean Tatars marched to the memorial sign of the deportation victims (photo)
News - 18 May 2017

In Simferopol Crimean Tatars marched to the memorial sign of the deportation victims (photo)

About 200 people gathered in the square

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"

Putin is a Modern-day Hitler
Columns - 11 February 2015

Putin is a Modern-day Hitler

The Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov is convinced that the current situation with the Crimean Tatars is a modern-day deportation