Crimea/Crimean Tatars

“ Crimean Tatars enjoyed an autonomy within Ukraine. But since Russia annexed Crimea the deportation of Tatars resumed.

— Mikhail Svetov, An appeal to western libertarians about the war in Ukraine, August 19, 2014

• russia is organizing another genocide of crimean tatars: 80% of men forcefully conscripted from russian occupied Crimea are crimean tatars (while they only constitute 20% of population). This is deliberate extermination.

• Crimean Tatars: A War Against Islamic Books

• Russia Sentences Crimean Tatar Representative to 17 Years of Prison

• The mystery of a missing Crimean Tatar

• Crimea: Disappeared Man Found Killed

• Crimean Tatars : More Reports of Russian Military “Crackdown” on ethnic Crimean Tatars

• “Crimean Tatar girl in Russia-occupied Crimea, Ukraine is harassed and beaten by a Russian gang for her ethnicity, religion, and skin colour. Moscow is committing ethnocide in occupied Crimea, and its little thugs are helping cause terror on its streets.”

• Protect Crimean Tatar defenders! (list of abuses)

• Russian colonialism and its misuse of self-determination: Statement by the UNPO General Secretary on the Russian Federation’s Recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk

• In the shadow of war, Kremlin continues terrorizing Crimean Tatars

• “I am russian speaking Ukrainian from Crimea and always had my full citizenship rights. until 2014. in 2014 russia came and stole my home. stop speaking on our behalf we are more than capable to do it”

• Crimean Tatars, a Turkic Muslim ethnic group, who have lived in Crimea since at least the 13th century. Russian empire, and later USSR, have done a lot to erase them from history. But there are still many people to pass on their stories.

• Russia engaging in ethnic cleansing in Crimea – Latvian foreign minister

• February 26th, 2014. Thousands of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians gathered in front of the regional administration building in Simferopol, Crimea to protest against the Russian invasion. The video shows them under attack by Russian troops and agents.

• Why Crimea Is the Key to Peace in Ukraine

• Eight years ago Russian opositioner Boris Nemtsov was killed in Moscow, not far from the Kremlin.

• Undetermined Facts, Secret Witnesses: Russia Hands Harsh Prison Terms To Crimean Tatars After ‘Illegitimate’ Trials

• Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. History of genocide

• Deportation of the Crimean Tatars. History, chronology, victims (infographics)

• 79 years ago on this day, the Soviet regime began deporting Crimeans, the peninsula’s indigenous population. The entire ethnic group was baselessly accused of collaborating with Nazis during WW2, even despite the fact that many Crimean men fought and died in the red army.

• Today is the sad anniversary of the forced deportation of Crimean Tatars from the peninsula, which happened in 1944, during Stalin’s reign of terror. Putin’s Russia is also using certain instruments to change demographics of Ukranian territory. A 🧵

• “My family for many centuries lived in the steppe part of Crimea, near Kefe and Keriç. But 18 May 1944 has changed their lives forever. On this day my pregnant great-grandmother Zaide together with her 4 children was violently deported by russians from Keriç, Crimea to Ural.”

“ Tozhsamist: The State Defense Committee of the USSR passed a resolution titled “About the Crimean Tatars” on May 11, 1944, listing numerous accusations against them - all without evidence. The main accusation is that the Crimean Tatars worked with the Third Reich. But I know your grandfather was fighting on the Soviet Union’s side at the time. Could you please explain it?

Еdiie: About 17,000 Crimean Tatars served in the Red Army during WWII, with many staying until the war’s end. Khairulla Ibadullaev, my paternal grandfather, was one of them. He was born in 1917. In the fall of 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army. His younger brother Rustem was mobilized also. In August 1941, Rustem was seen lagging behind a column of wounded Soviet prisoners of the 51st Army. His further fate is unknown. Khairulla was the deputy commander of the 110th Howitzer Artillery, at that time the heaviest artillery. He discovered in the autumn of 1944 that in May, the entire Crimean Tatar population had been forcefully deported. They were crammed into sealed cattle cars and sent off to Central Asia (mostly Uzbekistan), Siberia, and the Ural Mountains. Following that, distant relatives wrote him a letter in which they stated that his entire family had died from malaria in the first two months. After finishing the war in Austria, grandpa Khairullah was demobilized in 1946, and he immediately left to find his family, but no one was found. While he was fighting in Red Army, his family was exiled as “Nazi collaborators” and died in a foreign land.

— A little fragment from Ediie’s interview who is Kirimli (Crimean Tatar) for @tozhsamist

• https://twitter.com/AleksandrX13/status/1692941076921762014

• https://khpg.org/en/1608812679

See also

• Crimea

• 2014 Crimean status “referendum”