1944

Crimea’s Tatars: 1944 all over again

ON May 14th Crimea’s indigenous Tatars sat glued to their screens, watching as Jamala, a Ukrainian singer of Tatar descent, won the Eurovision song contest. Jamala’s song “1944” commemorated Stalin’s brutal deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population. For Russia’s government, the song was an...

Deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 must be recognised as genocide - Ukraine 26/05/2016 The Ukrainian Parliament is calling on the U.N. and the E.U. to recognise the mass expulsion of Crimean Tatars, organised by the Soviet Union in 1944, as a genocide of the ethnicity. The country's lawmakers say, the world needs to condemn "the past and present crimes", committed by the Russian...	A Muslim woman won Eurovision with a warning about mass deportation. But did the world hear it? 25/05/2016 This Saturday (May 14), for the first time ever, Americans were able to watch the final round of the Eurovision song contest live. The contest is a very big deal. Two hundred million people around the world watch contestants from 42 countries (mostly Europe as well as Australia and Israel) compete...
Muslims Win Eurovision, the London Mayoralty & the Great British Bake Off 23/05/2016 As the nation was glued to their television screens, a small but important fact missed many by. This fact, was that the Ukrainian lead singer known as Dzjamala, is in fact a Muslim female – Susanna Jamaladinova. Dzjamala performed the song “1944” during the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm and...	For Crimean Tatars, it is about much more than 1944 20/05/2016 As Crimean Tatars mark the anniversary of their mass deportation, they also remember Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Kyiv, Ukraine - There are fewer and fewer survivors of the Crimean Tatar deportations around to tell their stories, but Tamila Tasheva and her colleagues have been able...
First Crimean Tatar Movie Is To be Presented In Turkey At A Movie Festival Of International Standard 31/10/2013 First Crimean Tatar feature movie “Haytarma” depicting the Crimean Tatars deportation in 1944 is to be presented at a “Golden Orange” Annual Movie festival held in Turkey since 1963. The “Haytarma” movie has been presented in many towns and cities of Crimea earlier this year and smashed the mass...

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