The Foreign Ministry has called on the international community to recognise the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people
This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has once again called on the international community to recognise the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.
The statement was released on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People.
The ministry reiterated that Ukraine had recognised the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in May 1944 as an act of genocide.
“We are grateful to Canada, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, which have adopted similar decisions, restoring historical justice and honouring the memory of the victims of this crime. We call on other countries to join in the international recognition of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people,” the Foreign Ministry stated.
The ministry also emphasised that following the start of the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, the occupying authorities continued to discredit and oppress the Crimean Tatars.
Among such actions, the Foreign Ministry cited the ban on the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the fabrication of criminal cases, forced passportisation, pressure on religious communities and the creation of intolerable living conditions.
The Ministry stated that all of this constitutes modern forms of Russia’s forced displacement of Ukraine’s indigenous people from their land.
According to Ukrainian diplomats, such actions constitute a gross violation of international humanitarian law, international human rights law and the occupying state’s international legal obligations.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also called on the international community to intensify concerted political, diplomatic, sanctions-based and legal pressure on Russia.
The aim of such pressure is to put an end to human rights violations in the temporarily occupied Crimea and to restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders.
The Ukrainian Ministry demands that the Russian Federation immediately cease all forms of repression against the Crimean Tatars.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also called on Russia to lift the illegal ban on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, release all political prisoners and comply with its international obligations as an occupying power.
On 18 May 1944, the Soviet regime began the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population from Crimea to Central Asia.
Over the course of three days, around 200,000 Crimean Tatars were forcibly transported in dozens of railway carriages. /
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