On Monday, May 16, in Kyiv, at a press conference Impunity breeds lawlessness of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, a plan of events dedicated to the 78th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people was presented.
MEMORIAL EVENTS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE GENOCIDE OF THE CRIMEAN TATARS PEOPLE
I. Memorial events to be held in the settlements of the temporarily occupied Crimea
1.1 Laying flowers at commemorative stones and commemorative signs erected in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. Conducting a dua/prayer.
May 18: from 08.00 to 15.00
1.2. Raising above residential buildings or on flagpoles, as well as installing on the balconies of apartments of the Crimean Tatar national flags, framed by a black mourning ribbon.
Rising – May 17 in the evening
Withdrawal – May 20 in the evening
1.2 Sukyunet dak'asy / Minute of silence
May 18: 12.00 – 12.01 Kyiv time
1.4. Flash mobs and other events that will be initiated and carried out by Crimean Tatar public and creative groups (without the participation of representatives of the Russian occupation authorities and local collaborators, as well as the use of Russian occupation symbols).
II. Memorial events that will be held in the settlements of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions occupied by Russian troops.
2.1. Dua in mosques.
2.2. Laying flowers at memorial stones and memorial signs erected in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.
III. Memorial events that take place on the mainland of Ukraine – in Kyiv, in individual regional centers and cities.
3.1. Press conference of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center: Impunity breeds lawlessness as part of the information campaign #LIBERATECRIMEA (Ukrinform)
May 16 at 13.00
3.2. Spiritual event Remember. We are fighting. We shall win (online)
May 16 at 16.00
3.3. Public dialogue. Deportations, mass repressions, artificial famine: political tools of totalitarian regimes of the 20th and 21st centuries (online and offline).
May 17: 10:00 – 14:30
3.4. New threats to the Crimean Tatar people in the context of Russia's total aggression against Ukraine.
May 17 at 18:00 Kyiv time
3.5. Dua online in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people, initiated by the World Congress of Crimean Tatars and organizations of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in Turkey.
May 17 at 20:30 Kyiv time
3.6. Round table on the topic Crimea through the prism of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation: new challenges in protecting the rights of residents of the temporarily occupied territories (online and offline)
May 18 at 11:00
3.7 The Crimean Tatar Resource Center will hold an online screening (on the Youtube channel of the CTRC) of a full-length documentary film Witnesses of the 1944 Genocide, dedicated to the investigation and recognition of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people as an act of genocide. The testimonies of witnesses and the memories of the film's characters reveal the fate of hundreds of thousands of other deported Crimean Tatars.
May 18 at 19:30 Kyiv time
3.8 Impunity breeds lawlessness: CTRC launches an information campaign (big board, city light, as well as in social networks) on the 78th anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in order to publicize the crimes of the Russian Federation against humanity, which are becoming systemic. The world did not condemn the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944 and this impunity gave rise to new crimes, namely the genocide of the Ukrainian people in 2022. We must stop this.
16th of May
3.9. A genocide left unpunished is being committed again. International online rally in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people (online)
Start at 16:00 Kyiv time
IV. Memorial events dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in Canada, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the USA, Turkey will be held by organizations of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in cooperation with the diplomatic missions of Ukraine abroad and the Ukrainian diaspora.
Online screening of the documentary film directed by Christina Pashyn A Struggle for home : the Crimean Tatars at Northwestern University (Northwestern University) in the USA in Ivanston, Illinois. After the screening of the film, there will be a discussion about the Deportation of 1944, the current situation of the Crimean Tatars with the participation of representatives of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
May 18 at 18:00-19:30 New York time or May 19 at 2:00 Kyiv time.
Eskender Bariiev, member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center called on all Ukrainians to take part in the events dedicated to the 78th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.