"Within a year of occupation Crimea turned into a peninsula of fear," said Ukraine Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Valeria Lutkovska during the 113 th session of the UN Committee on Human Rights on 16 March 2015. The native population of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, have much to fear: only a little over 20 years has passed since they returned from a forced deportation to Central Asia under the Soviet dictator Stalin. They are now facing the danger of a second deportation off their native land. On 26 March 2015, leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov said that after Russia's occupation of the peninsula, the Crimean Tatars "do not exclude any action on the part of Russia, including the deportation of whole nations." The year under Russian occupation has been one of relentless repressions against Crimea’s indigenous population. Halya Coynash at KHPG has been documenting all the cases; we have placed them on one timeline.
EuroMaidan press: Timeline of repressions against Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea
An officer of the Russian riot police force OMON stands guard outside the offices of Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR in Simferopol on Jan. 26, 2015.
