A Crimean Tatar-led underground movement is already active behind Russian lines and hundreds of young Tatar men are ready to take up arms to liberate the occupied peninsula. In 1944, Stalin deported the entire Crimean Tatar population, mostly to Uzbekistan.

A leading Tatar has warned against outside powers seeking to negotiate the future of Crimea without the participation of its Indigenous people – “We don’t want another Yalta”.

#imperialism #colonialism #Tatars

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/17/the-underground-crimean-tatar-group-taking-up-arms-against-russia

Iftar in Kyiv April 2023.

Today about 13% of Crimea’s population are #Tatars. As recently as 1850, that figure was about 75%. The peninsula was ethnically cleansed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/13/ukrain-eurovision-winner-jamala-crimean-tatars-putin

#Russian forces and occupation authorities continue to target #Crimean #Tatars under allegations that they associate with a banned pan-Islamist political organization in an effort to associate anti-Russia sentiment with extremist or terrorist activity.

https://isw.pub/UkrWar013023

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1620459451483410433

Now Fighting for Ukraine: Volunteers Seeking Revenge Against Russia https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/world/europe/ukraine-russia-volunteers-chechens-tatars.html #RussianInvasionofUkraine(2022) #DefenseandMilitaryForces #Tatars(EthnicGroup) #Chechnya(Russia) #Putin,VladimirV #Stalin,Joseph #Azerbaijan #Chechens #Belarus #Ukraine #Russia

Head of Crimean #Tatars' Mejlis calls upon Russians to leave #Crimea: they have one foot in Voronezh, the other on the bridge

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #PutinsWar #Russia

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/11/7375977/