UKRAINE, May 14 — The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the appeal to the international community about honoring the memory of victims of Soviet genocide of Crimean Tatars and consolidation efforts to stop Russia from violating rights and liberty of Crimean Tatars, said Tamila Tasheva, Ukrainian politician, referring to Parliament passing the resolution #13272 to appeal today.

On May 18, there will be a Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide. 81 years ago, the Soviet Union started the operation of Crimean Tatar deportation, under the guise of blaming their communities for “betrayal of homeland” and collaboration with German Nazis, forcibly and violently displacing over 200,000 people from Crimean Peninsula (20-25% of those people have died during deportation). 

By this date, 310 lawmakers supported the document, asking the governments of other countries to join Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Poland, Estonia, and the Czech Republic in recognizing the deportation of Crimean Tatar as a genocide.

“It (the appeal) reminds the whole world that the fight for the rights of Crimean Tatars and all occupied territories of Ukraine are still ongoing,” said Tasheva.

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