https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2023/03/15/7393446/
#crimea #tatars #crimiantatars #mejlis #qirimli #ukraine #russia #holodomor

Propaganda, human rights, and lack of retribution. How a longstanding compromise with Russia led to tragedy

This text is a lecture in memory of Professor Stefan Riesenfeld of the Berkeley School of Law. Every year in his honour, the university hosts a symposium on international law. This time it was devoted to mass crimes of the 21st century and their...

#Russia is continuing to deny that the massive explosions at a Crimean military base at #Saki that destroyed up to nine of its warplanes were caused by an attack. As the Institute for the Study of #War noted, “the #Kremlin has little incentive to blame Ukraine” since, by doing so, it will admit to serious weaknesses in Russia’s air-defence system. Instead, the Chair of the Crimean Tatar #Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, believes, Russia opted to avenge itself for the humiliation experienced by new mass arrests of Crimean Tatars on fabricated charges One of the motives for the armed searches and arrests of Crimean Tatars has, from the outset, been #propaganda aimed at presenting the main indigenous people of #Crimea, who do not conceal their strong identification with #Ukraine, as a threat. The arrests are also known to bring bonuses or promotion to the #FSB officers and may, therefore, have been planned, but the timing now might well be deliberate.

https://khpg.org/en/1608811021 #repression #Hizb-ut-Tahrir #terror

Russia 'takes revenge’ for humiliating attack on Crimea military base by new mass arrests of Crimean Tatars

The head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis believes that Russia decided to avenge itself for the humiliation of the attack by staging mass arrests of Crimean Tatars on fabricated charges