Crimean Tatar activists in the occupied Crimea have again started handing out ‘warnings’ about the inadmissibility of violating the law to Crimean Tatar activists en masse.
According to the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Refat Chubarov, there have been repeated cases when such ‘warnings’ were issued to already deceased people.
Thus, on 5 September 2024, Russian police officers came to the house of Vedzhie Kashka, who died back on 23 November 2016 at the age of 83 during her brutal detention by the Russians.
It is obvious that the Russian occupation forces, by conducting mass searches in the homes of Crimean Tatar activists and handing out ‘warnings’ to them before the illegitimate elections scheduled for 6-8 September, are trying to intimidate the Crimean Tatars, who are categorically against the next lawless actions of the occupation authorities.
It should be reminded that such practice was usual before the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on the peninsula, especially on the eve of commemorative dates such as 26 February (Day of Crimean resistance to Russian occupation) or 18 May (Day of Remembrance of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people). Then the occupants are not limited to issuing only these ‘warnings’, they more often started to open immediately administrative cases and impose punishment in the form of arrests or fines.