Elders’ quorum of the Crimean Tatar people ‘Namus’ applies to the Council on National Security and Defence of Ukraine (CNSDU) with demand to make urgent measures for stabilization of interreligious situation in Crimea and hinder xenophobia that is growing day by day in the peninsula. Such demand is stated in a wire of NGO Namus sent to the CNSDU after regular act of vandalism made towards a Moslem cult place of worship.
It will be recalled that unknown vandals had drawn again Nazi swastika on table with name of the Moslem community ‘Battal Çelebi’ by spray can yesterday, in Aqmescit (Simferopil).
“As political tension heightens in Crimea, number of provocations directed to strongarm confrontation between the Crimean Tatars and Russian-speaking population is increasing. Unknown criminals are destroying and defacing the monuments of famous figures of the Crimean Tatar people erected in Crimean towns as well as gravestones in the cemeteries. Graffiti on walls and fences that outraging honour and dignity, religious feelings of the Crimean Tatars multiplied. Another lowdown graffito – Nazi swastika – appears on the Moslem community ‘Battal Çelebi’ building on Krasnoznamennaya Street in Aqmescit (Simferopil).
With that, authors of this wire noted, “Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea and local councils affect as though nothing were happening. And militia, public prosecutors, Secret Service of Ukraine display crime of omission and obvious impotence against provokers. … The Crimean Tatar public organizations exert every effort to prevent open conflicts. However, their efforts are not enough evidently to struggle with incendiaries of interethnic animosity and interconfessional discord”.
“On the assumption of above-mentioned, Elders’ quorum of the Crimean Tatar people ‘Namus’ demands your urgent intervention to calm a situation in Crimea” – summing up the Crimean Tatar NGO.
On the materials of QHA
