Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented an electronic database of victims of the occupation of Crimea. Why it was created, what can be viewed in it and what data was used to create it – the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariiev told us about it on the air of Hromadske Radio.
Eskender Bariiev: We were constantly dealing with lists of political prisoners, lists of missing and murdered during the occupation period of Crimea, respectively, people were divided into these different categories. Then the idea came up to create a classification. For example, if we take political prisoners and those who are being persecuted, then in this group we have several categories.
The first category – those who are sentenced and are serving terms in the colonies.
The second category – those who are in detention facilities and have not received a sentence yet.
The third category – those who have restrictions or on probation. For example, those who were released but who received administrative supervision.
Fourth category – those who are persecuted in the so-called criminal cases. For example, I have been put on the wanted list, there is a decision of the so-called occupation courts
In addition, cannot be former, like dissidents in the Soviet Union. Accordingly, we have identified the fifth category – released. This category includes political prisoners such as Oleh Sentsov, and we have no right to forget about them.
We do not take into account administrative penalties, only criminal ones.
There is also a separate group – those who were killed during the occupation period of Crimea, and we divided it into four categories.
The first category – victims of political repressions.
The second category – victims of discrimination.
The third category – victims of terror.
The fourth category – victims of police abuse.
That is, it is obviously inappropriate that on one list we will have Reshat Amietov, whom we attributed to the victims of political repression, and those 29 people who were shot dead in Kerch as a result of a terrorist act. We can’t talk about them, because there were no terrorist acts in Ukrainian Crimea.
We also singled out another group – these are victims of enforced disappearances during the period of occupation. And there are two categories.
The first category – those who were declared missing by the so-called law enforcement agencies of the occupants;
The second – those who were not declared missing.
When we developed this classification, we had the idea to develop diagrams where we could provide everyone with general data and emphasize on the representatives of the indigenous people – Crimean Tatars among the people on those lists.
Today, anyone can go to the website of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and get complete information on all this data by clicking on a particular component in each category. For each category we have a separate clickable chart.
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