Mustafa Cemil, the Chairman of the Majlis of Crimean Tatar people and member of the Ukrainian Parliament, insists that Ukraine must make an objective legal evaluation of crimes of the Soviet authorities against his nation, being forcibly evicted from the Crimean peninsula in 1944.

Mustafa Cemil noted that the matter concerns exactly legal evaluation of the fact but not a search for guilty persons and their punishment. Such legal evaluation 'will help improve a political environment in the territory of the Crimean peninsula and Ukraine in whole," - he believes.

The politician reminded that according to official Soviet data declassified only before the USSR collapse, a total of 38 deportees died on their way to Siberia and Central Asia, whereas researches carried out by historians and experts from the National Movement of the Crimean Tatar People, show a figure of 46%.

The Majlis Chairman is confident that all crimes of the Soviet authorities regarding the 1944 Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people should be classified as genocide. And extermination of cultural and historical monuments of the nation, cemeteries and houses speaks of a targeted ethnic cleansing, he adds.

For his part, Refat Çubar, the Majlis First Deputy Chairman, noted that a special law is needed to give an objective evaluation of the Crimean Tatars' tragedy.

As reported earlier, on July 2, 2009, President Viktor Yushchenko had instructed the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) and the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) to institute proceedings on the fact of illegal eviction of the Crimean Tartar people and other ethnic groups in 1944 who lived in Crimea. According to the President, there are signs of genocide in the actions of then-leadership of the Communist regime led by Joseph Stalin and officials of the USSR punitive bodies.

The case is not opened yet but SSU is collecting necessary documents and evidences.

By QHA

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