To commemorate the seventy-ninth anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presents a new video “Not Condemned Yesterday, Repeated Today”, which briefly tells about the events of 1944, the impunity of the perpetrator and the consequences of this.
The deportation of the Crimean Tatar people – the the genocide ordered by Stalin began on May 18, 1944 . In total, 191,044 people were deported from Crimea, about 238,500 people suffered from the deportation in general with the death toll in the first years amounted up to 46.2% of all those deported.
In addition to physical destruction, the Soviet authorities tried to erase everything associated with the indigenous people in Crimea: from the people themselves to their history and culture.
The Crimean Tatars were excluded from the list of nations of the USSR, and until 1989, the Crimean Tatar people were even prohibited from appearing in their homeland.
The policy of genocide has continued since 2014, the beginning of Russia’s occupation of Crimea.
We can see that the world has not condemned the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944, and this impunity has given rise to new crimes. In 2022, Moscow finally threw up its mask. Now the Russian Federation is committing genocide against the entire Ukrainian people.
We must stop it.
If the crime was not condemned yesterday, it will be repeated today!
The criminal must be punished!
This video was developed by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center as part of its project implemented under the USAID/ENGAGE activity, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of Pact and its implementing partners and do not necessary reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.