As our correspondent from the occupied peninsula reports, in Crimea, the homeland of the Crimean Tatars, the Day of Remembrance of the deportation victims was held quietly and as planned, exactly as the Crimean authorities wanted.
There were no public rallies or meetings, which are traditional for this day – as the day before the authorities prohibited the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars to arrange public events. The official reason is “a lack of places”, which are available for holding the meeting.
So, they confined themselves to laying flowers at the memorials of deportation victims – the memorial of deportation victims and the Renaissance memorial. A large number of police and OMON officers kept watching near them “in order to prevent provocations” from early in the morning till late at night.
There was a common prayer named “Prayer of memory and unity” in the memory of the deportees at eleven o’clock in all mosques and churches of Crimea.
As a reminder, people light candles in the memory of the 71st anniversary of deportation of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine and all over the world.
