“Discrimination continues”: CTRC launches a storm to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Crimean Tatar people genocide
The Crimean Tatar Resource Centre is launching a social media storm dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. We call on every person , every conscious citizen of our country to join us.
We want to remind Ukrainian and international societies of the terrible crime against humanity, the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people committed in 1944. A total of 238,500 people were deported from Crimea at that time, and the death toll in the first years made up to 46.2% of all those deported.
It is important to remember those terrible events, especially now when history repeats. The Russian Federation is in fact continuing the practice of the Soviet Union, as the goal of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is precisely the destruction of the entire Ukrainian people, their identity and culture. Daily mass killings, abductions, and forced displacement of thousands of Ukrainian civilians, including children, to the territory of the Russian Federation are the present-day realities.
Please join the CTRC’s storm to make the Russian Federation’s crimes against humanity, which are becoming systemic. The world did not condemn the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944, and this impunity has given rise to new crimes. Now Russia has committed genocide against the Ukrainian people. We must stop it.
It is worth reminding that so far, the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people has been recognised as an act of genocide by 3 countries except Ukraine: the parliaments of Latvia and Lithuania in 2019, and the Parliament of Canada in 2022. The CTRC team worked closely with these countries in decision-making. However, despite the fact that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has recognised the deportation as an act of genocide, there is still no court decision in this case. The perpetrators have not been convicted! This crime has no statute of limitations. We demand justice to be restored!
We call on every person who cares, every conscious citizen of Ukraine to join us and share one of the posters on their social media pages (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram).
These posters were designed by the team of the crimean Tatar Resource Center and activists of the international movement for the de-occupation of Crimea and solidarity with the Crimean Tatar people #LIBERATECRIMEA, and acquired their professional look thanks to the Ukrainian artist Andriy Yermolenko.