Discussion of the Tatars

In Crimea, the rights of the Crimean Tatars are roughly violated, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin to the UN at the World Conference on Indigenous People. “Today, Crimean Tatars, ethnic Ukrainians and other minorities on the peninsula are subjected to open, shameless discrimination,” the UN website quotes the Minister.

“With the Russian occupation of Crimea, we returned to the international reality of annexation, aggression and open territorial claims,” Klimkin said. “The annexation turned the sunny and hospitable peninsula into a place of tension, aggression and intolerance. Many groups, which were part of the multi -cultural and friendly person of the Crimea, became undesirable minorities.”

According to the Ukrainian minister, "together with its troops, the Russian Federation brought to Crimea the ideology of hatred and isolationism"-"people are punished for the fact that they speak differently, look differently and think differently." Klimkin recalled that this year the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars is celebrated. The further fate of this people will depend on the reaction of the international community to Russia's attempts to impose its irresponsible behavior as a new norm, ”the head of Ukrainian diplomacy noted.

Klimkin said that "occupying authorities prohibit the entry into the territory of the Crimean Peninsula" to the leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev and the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov. " Dzhemilev and Chubarov take part in the New York UN conference.

On the eve of Dzhemilev stated that the Crimean Self -Defense compiled “black lists” of representatives of local Majlis of Crimean Tatars. “There are such lists according to the Bakhchisaray and Sudak Medzhlis. People should either disappear or eliminate them,” the Crimea. Real website quoted Dzhemillev. Crimean Tatars will compose in response their lists of representatives of "self -defense", but will adhere to the principle of non -violence, Jamillev promised.

In Crimea, mass searches continue in houses and educational institutions of Crimean Tatars. On September 16, the search was held in the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people in Simferopol. The next day, the Majlis building was sealed. The Prime Minister Sergei Aksenov said on Monday that legally the Mejlis in Crimea does not exist.