The action on the anniversary of Crimean Tatars’ deportation

A group of Crimean Tatars  has held today an action timed to coincide with the anniversary of the deportation from their historical homeland.  The gathered at the Alley of Martyrs,  and visited monument of Turkish soldiers killed in the battles with the Bolsheviks in Baku in 1918-1920. After laying a wreath, they visited the monument to the memory of Azerbaijani soldiers killed in the fighting in Karabakh.

The action participants  read prayers  to the memory of those killed during the deportation of the Tatars in 1944 and Turkic warriors who died in battle with the enemy. At the end of the action the cars of the  Ukrainian Embassy came to the scene, and  invited to a reception at the embassy.

During the meeting with Ambassador Alexander Mishchenko, the sides exchanged views on the Crimea issue and the historical roots of Russian politics. The ambassador expressed his conviction that the occupation of the Crimea will not be eternal, and this peninsula, sooner or later will return to the Ukraine.

Representatives of the Crimean Tatars have also confirmed that they consider the citizens of Ukraine and condemned Moscow's of  imperial policy. They reported that they sent the appropriate appeal to the Rada. Then, the sides exchanged views on the history of the Crimea, and the reasons for the deportation policies of the great powers.

In 1994 by the orders of Stalin hundreds of thousands of Tatars were deported from the Crimea root of the inhabitants of the peninsula. Half of them died on the way to Siberia and Kazakhstan. After the capture of Russian Crimea in 2014, the  Tartars rights were again violated, and thousands of people were forced to leave their motherland.-02D-