On Thursday, December 9, the world community celebrates the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide, honoring their dignity and preventing this crime. It was on this day in 1948 that the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted.
Cases of genocide have occurred throughout the history of mankind. Only on the territory of Ukraine over the last century there have been 3 such crimes: Holodomor, Holocaust, Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. However, even in the modern world, signs of genocide can be traced in different countries, including the ones they had to face in the Russian-occupied Crimea.
Unfortunately, the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, which began back in 1944, is a long process. Representatives of the indigenous people are forced to leave their homeland because of their civic position and because of their inconvenience.
The Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014 and the subsequent systemic repressions, detentions, interrogations, searches and arrests, illegal transferrings to Russian prisons, violent abductions and murders caused a new mass migration of the indigenous people, and in fact, their hybrid deportation.
Active population replacement is being carried out in Crimea.
The indigenous people are purposefully squeezed out of the peninsula as a population disloyal to Russia. An image of an enemy nation is being created for the Crimean Tatars, criminal proceedings are opened in the so-called Hizb ut Tahrir cases, people are accused of terrorism, possession of weapons, and calls for a coup d'etat.
The occupation has been going on for 8 years and the number of victims of the occupation authorities on the peninsula is growing. Mostly Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians are kept in the FSB dungeons. According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, over the entire period of the occupation, the number of political prisoners reached 234, 165 of which are representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
We call on the international community to increase pressure on the Russian Federation in order to end racial discrimination in the occupied Crimea and stop the prolonged genocide of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.