Prosecutor General Lutsenko decided to investigate the deportation of Crimean Tatars
In Ukraine, they decided to investigate the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from the territory of the peninsula. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said this during a meeting with the leaders of the Majlis banned in the Russian Federation, Rada deputies Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev.
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According to him, after 73 years, the investigation of the case is complicated, so Ukraine turned to the former countries of the former Soviet Union for international assistance.
“In order to obtain the necessary archival documents and conduct interrogations of possible witnesses, we have sent requests for international legal assistance to the republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. 310 volumes of the criminal case were reviewed, in which in 2010 a resolution was passed, according to which the Holodomor of the Ukrainian people was recognized as genocide, and Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich were found guilty. We consider these cases to be comparable. We interrogated 63 people as witnesses and victims, 45 of whom now live in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea,” Lutsenko said.
He also noted that, by order of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Institute of Demography and Social Research named after. Ptukhi NAS of Ukraine counted the number of deportees and deaths in places of deportation.
“The forced relocation in 1944 of 225 thousand representatives of the Crimean Tatar people and other national groups from the territory of Crimea to areas and territories of the Soviet Union unsuitable for human habitation led to their partial destruction,” states the Prosecutor General. – The number of deaths was 57,9 thousand people, including Crimean Tatars – 49,2 people, Greeks – 3,3 thousand people, Bulgarians – 2,8 thousand people, Armenians – 2,3 thousand people, Germans – 300 people.”
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