Mejlis members complain that they have become “second class” in Ukraine
For some reason, Crimean Tatars are not included in the lists for the exchange of prisoners of war, Aider Muzhdabaev, a journalist close to the Majlis, complained in an interview with the Kraina magazine.
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“Sometimes, unfortunately, the authorities treat us like second-class citizens,” the publication’s interlocutor laments.
“There is not a single Crimean Tatar on the prisoner exchange lists. Although our people have been in prison for two years already. And they will probably be the last to be exchanged. Almost no one knows their last names. The authorities do not talk about them, only isolated public organizations. Crimean Tatars are in prison because they fight for freedom and do not betray Ukraine. I consider it meanness not to remember them,” says the journalist.
At the same time, he recalls that under Ukraine, Crimean Tatars always voted for pro-Ukrainian parties, although they “were given nothing - no roads in villages, no water, no gas, no rights of the indigenous people, no opportunity to fully learn their language, no national-territorial autonomy."
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