deportation 1944

“What was done to you in 1944 has a name. It was genocide”
“What was done to you in 1944 has a name. It was genocide”
The words above were spoken by a great Ukrainian Petro Grigorenko when he addressed Crimean Tatars exiled in Moscow in 1968, almost 25 years after the Deportation.  Nearly 50 years later, Crimean Tatars are once again exiled or persecuted, and Grigorenko’s advice on demanding their rights and...
Ukraine resumes inquiry into 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars
12/10/2016
Ukraine resumes inquiry into 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars
The official prosecution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, that moved to mainland Ukraine after the peninsula was annexed by Russia, has resumed the criminal investigation of the forcible deportation of Tatars from the peninsula, conducted by the Soviet Union back in 1944. This is according to...
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...
One People’s History
28/03/2014
A charity run on Crimean Tatar movie “Haytarma” depicting the deportation of 1944 took place at “Pravda-Kino” Cinema in Dnipropetrovsk. All the funds raised are to be given to support the Crimean Tatar TV-Channel ATR. The audience rose in applause after the movie was over; many people were crying....
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