On Thursday, May 27, an online discussion May, full of pain and hope took place, during which the guests of the event discussed the impact of the Soviet regime on the course of World War II, the Holocaust, post-war repressions and persecution of the Crimean Tatars. The Head of the Board of the CTRC Eskender Bariiev emphasized during his speech that the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people is an unfinished crime.
The discussion was attended by:
Eskender Bariiev – Head of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department of Legal and Foreign Affairs of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People,
Oleksandr Denysenko – historian, archivist;
Yevhen Dykyy – Ukrainian scientist, publicist, political expert, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union;
Hennadii Druzenko – Ukrainian lawyer, constitutionalist, public intellectual, public activist, Head of the Board of the Center for Constitutional Modeling;
Yosyp Zisels – public figure and dissident; Executive Vice President of the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine;
Ihor Levenshtein – journalist, public figure
Yan Pryvorotskyy – historian, public figure, one of the best guides in Kyiv;
Anna Yarova – daughter of Sofia Yarova, art critic.
Bariiev emphasized in his speech that the deportation of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people from their historical homeland, Crimea, is an unfinished (long-term) international crime that has no statute of limitations.
“Ukraine has proper substantive and procedural jurisdiction for its investigation and final qualification; the legal recognition of this deportation as genocide will become final after the entry into force of the relevant decision of the competent court”,- he added.