A List of Russian Provocations Against Its Neighbors

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36. The Crimean Tartar population is sure jumping for joy I am sure

Deported from their homeland once by Russia and it looks like it is happening again.

Crimean Tatar National Assembly building emptied and then closed down

The building that is located in Simferopol, which is called “Akmescit” by the Tatars, was raided by some Russian police and soldiers on Sept. 16. Those Russian security forces, whose faces were covered according to the media reports, searched the building for 12 hours. One day after the raid, federal court officials came to the building and warned the Crimean Tatar National Assembly members that the building would be closed down. Those officials gave time to Crimean Tatar National Assembly members for empting the building.

After this warning, the members of Crimean Tatar National Assembly decided to empty the building.

According to QHA (Crimean news agency) report, the Crimean Tatar National Assembly members emptied the building and started to wait for the federal court officials to close down the building on Sept. 19 as scheduled earlier by the officials. However, those federal court officials did not show up at the planned time. Thus, the Crimean Tatar National Assembly members had to close down the building themselves.

http://www.todayszaman.com/latest-news_crimean-tatar-national-assembly-building-emptied-and-then-closed-down_359343.html

The new rulers of Crimea banned the head of the Mejlis, Renat Chubarov, and its former head, Mustafa Dzhemilev, from entry.

There are also cases of human rights abuses against Crimean Tatars, including one murder. On the eve of the referendum of March 16 [2014], Reshat Ametov, a 39-year-old Crimean Tatar man, was having a picket in Simferopol when he was abducted by men in military uniform and later found slain. No suspects have been identified, to the anger of Crimean Tatars, who don’t think the case will be solved.

http://unpo.org/article/17413