 From Wikipedia: "The forcible deportation of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea was ordered by Joseph Stalin as a form of collective punishment for alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupation regime in Taurida Subdistrict during 1942–1943. The state-organized removal is known as the Sürgünlik in Crimean Tatar. A total of more than 230,000 people were deported, mostly to the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. This included the entire ethnic Crimean Tatar population, at the time about a fifth of the total population of the Crimean Peninsula, as well as smaller numbers of ethnic Greeks and Bulgarians. A large number of deportees (more than 100,000 according to a 1960s survey by Crimean Tatar activists) died from starvation or disease as a direct result of deportation. It is considered to be a case of ethnic cleansing. For a long time Crimean Tatars and Soviet dissidents called for recognition of the genocide of Crimean Tatars." Image: Human Rights in Ukraine Sources: Deportation of the Crimean Tatars, Wikipedia Halya Coynash, '“What was done to you in 1944 has a name. It was genocide”,' Human Rights in Ukraine, 18 May 2017 Halya Coynash, 'Russia Bans Remembrance Events on Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation,' Human Rights in Ukraine, 18 May 2016 |
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