May marks a cruel anniversary in Ukraine. Seventy-three years ago this month, more than 240,000 ethnic Tatars were deported from Crimea. The still-fresh historical wound has since been reopened, with Russia’s illegal annexation of the Ukrainian territory in 2014 and Moscow’s continued repression of the Tatar community.
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Pavlo Klimkin: Ukraine stands firm with Crimea’s Tatars
A woman holds a portrait of Crimean political prisoner as she participates in the march for solidarity with Crimean Tatars who did a rally on Feb. 26, 2014, near Crimean parliament as they protested Russian occupation of the peninsula.