The Crimean Tatar Resource Center launches a storm “Oblivion leads to a new crime” in social media dedicated to the 81st anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. We call on every person who cares, 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 that occurred in 1944. A total of 238,500 people were expelled from Crimea at that time, and the death toll in the first years amounted to 46.2% of all those expelled.
It is important to remember those terrible events, especially now, when history repeats itself. The Russian Federation is actually continuing the practice of the Soviet Union, because the goal of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is precisely the destruction of the Ukrainian people, their identity and culture. Daily mass killings, abductions, and the forced displacement of thousands of people, including children, from the civilian population of Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation are all present-day realities.
Please join the CTRC’s storm to make public the crimes against humanity committed by the Russian Federation, which are becoming systemic. The world has not condemned the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944, and this impunity has given rise to new crimes. Now Russia is committing genocide against the Ukrainian people. We have to stop it.
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) with the hashtag #LIBERATECRIMEA.
These posters were developed by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, activists of the international movement for the deoccupation of Crimea and solidarity with the Crimean Tatar people #LIBERATECRIMEA, and acquired their professional design thanks to Ukrainian artist Andriy Yermolenko.