Head of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department fof Legal Affairs and Foreign Affairs of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Eskender Bariiev, in an interview with the Crimea.Realities media agency commented on the methodology developed by the CTRC for assessing the feasibility of introducing personal sanctions against persons who collaborate with the occupation authorities. Bariiev explained that everyone should know about the red line of collaboration with the aggressor.
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“The prerequisites for the development of this methodology, this classification are several factors. The first and the main one is that the Crimean Tatar Resource Center has been working for several years to form its list in accordance with the laws analogous to the Magnitsky Act in six countries. In order for us to understand that not only people in uniform, but also politicians are guilty of persecuting our citizens in Crimea we need this methodology. We need to take these points into account. The second precondition was that a draft law on transitional justice was posted on the website of the Ministry of Reintegration of Ukraine, in which the word collaborator is absent altogether”,- he said.
Bariiev noted that all Russian media, including the central ones, began to react to the initiative. The occupants are very worried about this, and they begin to compare the CTRC with the Nazis and so on.
“In fact, after the occupation, serious problems can really arise when we figure out: who was the collaborator to a greater or lesser extent? It is clear that all people who live in Crimea are collaborators, that is, communication or cooperation with the occupier. But we must distinguish between the criminal degree of collaboration and the degree of collaboration, which is simply necessary because of life in this territory. We ourselves urge our compatriots to stay in Crimea, therefore we must carry out such a classification in advance”,- the expert explained.
We remind that on February 3, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center held a press conference on the topic Modern challenges of assessing the actions of collaborators and sanctions policy, during which it presented a methodology for assessing the feasibility of introducing personal sanctions against persons who collaborate with the occupation authorities.