On Tuesday, April 28, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented online an electronic database of victims of the occupation of Crimea, which will be available on the organization’s website in 4 languages on an ongoing basis. This base will help to have an objective idea of the number of victims of the occupation regime on the peninsula and to strengthen sanctions against the occupying state, said Eskender Bariev, Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people during the online press-conference.
“The Crimean Tatar Resource Center on its website classified and developed clickable diagrams “Victims of the Occupation of Crimea”, which constantly display the current number of political prisoners, missing and killed people during the occupation period of Crimea”,- said Eskender Bariiev.
According to him, the lists are constantly updated, all charts are clickable. By clicking on each category, you can get an adequate list of people.
So, according to the CTRC, the number of political prisoners and persecuted in the criminal cases by the occupation authorities is 190 people, 136 of them are the representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. This category consists of 5 components, depending on the status of the victim:
– “Sentenced and serve terms in colonies” (42, 23 – Crimean Tatars);
– “Have restrictions or on probation" (22, 16 – Crimean Tatars);
– "In detention facilities" (56, 48 – Crimean Tatars);
– "Released" (44, 29 – Crimean Tatars);
– "Persecuted" (26, 20 – Crimean Tatars).
According to the CTRC, today there are 51 who were killed during the occupation period of Crimea, 21 of them are the representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. This category consists of the following components:
– "Victims of political repression" (2 – Crimean Tatars);
– "Victims of discrimination" (10, 8 Crimean Tatars);
– "Victims of terror" (29, 7 – Crimean Tatars);
– "Victims of police abuse" (10, 4 – Crimean Tatars).
The third category of the CTRC electronic database displays the actual number of victims of enforced disappearances during the occupation period of f Crimea. In total, according to the organization, there are 18 such people, 13 of them are the representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. This category is divided into those who are declared missing (9 people, allof them are Crimean Tatars) and those who are not declared missing (9 people, 4 of them Crimean Tatars).
In the end, Eskender Bariiev urged to send to the CTRC email address ([email protected]) information about those victims of the occupation period of Crimea, who are missing in the presented lists of the CTRC.
Press Service of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center