Investigation on criminal Deportation from Crimea is begun
The Ukraine’s Security Service and the Office of the Prosecutor General have begun to execute the Presidential commission. This is disclosed on the SSU official website.
'The SSU cooperating with the Prosecutor General’s Office collect materials concerning the criminal 1944 Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people and other ethnic groups from Crimea. The Service is collecting and studying documents of crimes of the totalitarian regime in 1944, ascertaining and examining witnesses' – the SSU press service informs.
Under the national legislation, the SSU and PGO will give legal treatment of illegal forced deportation of ethnic groups of Crimea by results of investigation.
It will be recalled that the President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko has commissioned to the Prosecutor General Oleksandr Mevedko and Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko to consider an issue to lay a criminal information on the 1944 Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people and representatives of other groups from Crimea.
By QHA
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