““The recognition of the genocide of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 is also a great manifestation of support for Ukraine, which is in dire need of it now,” said Mustafa Dzhemilev”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The meeting was attended by the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic Vasyl Zvarych, People’s Deputies of Ukraine Maria Mezentseva and Mykola Knyazhytskyi, as well as leaders of the Crimean Tatar people, in particular, Mustafa Dzhemilev, who spoke with words of gratitude to the Czech authorities.
“Now I want to express a huge thank you for helping Ukraine, that you were able to help with weapons and shelter hundreds of thousands of refugees in a difficult moment. The recognition of the genocide of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 is also a great manifestation of support for Ukraine, which needs it now. I hope that the Czech Republic will continue to live by the same democratic values,” Dzhemilev said from the rostrum of the Czech Parliament.
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The initiator of the recognition of the genocide, the chairman of the Committee on Defense and International Affairs, Czech Senator Pavel Fischer, said in a commentary to Radio Liberty that this is a historic decision that is a logical continuation of the Czech Republic’s support for Ukraine.
“We have been monitoring and helping Ukraine since 2014, when Russia occupied Crimea despite any international laws. Therefore, it was a fundamentally important issue for us. We listened to Mustafa Dzhemilev today and almost the entire senate made this important decision,” Fisher said.
Earlier, “Ukrinform” reported that the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, called on the Czech Senate to adopt a decision on recognizing the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944 as an act of genocide.
The deportation of the Crimean Tatars in May 1944 was recognized as an act of genocide by several countries: Ukraine – in 2015, Lithuania and Latvia – in 2019, Canada – in 2022, Poland and Estonia – in 2024.