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Dzhemilev’s Benefit Performance In Bruxelles

On March, 17th, 2010, in Bruxelles (Belgium), in a building of the European parliament hearings about position of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine on which head of Milli Medzhlis the People’s Deputy of Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev has acted have taken place, press-service of Milli Medzhlis informs.

As it is told in the message, on termination of the performance of Mustafa Dzhemilev has answered numerous questions of the deputies and experts who have taken part in hearings of EuroParliament. The course of hearings was shined in mass media, including Ukrainian.

Within the limits of a trip the meeting of Mustafa Dzhemilev with the Supreme commissioner of OSCE on affairs of national minorities Knut Vollebekk also is planned which will take place on March, 19th, 2010 in the Hague (Netherlands), the press-service informs.

Theses of performance of Mustafa Dzhemilev are applied during the hearings which have taken place on March, 17th, 2010.

Problems and stability prospects in Crimea

(The report of the chairman of Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people in EuroParliament.

(Bruxelles, March, 17th, 2010)

Dear Mr. Chairman, dear deputies of EuroParliament! Ladies and gentlemen!

First, I would like to express all of you the deep gratitude for the invitation and the possibility given to me to act in it, perhaps, the most authoritative parliament of the world where 27 leading democratic countries of Europe are presented simultaneously . It is a great honour for me and the big responsibility as for the representative of the Crimean Tatar people — one of the smallest people of the Eastern Europe, sentenced by the Soviet mode 66 years ago to utter annihilation.

I am also grateful to you that you have decided to devote special session to discussion of problems of Ukraine and Crimea. A situation in Ukraine and especially in Crimea difficult enough and disturbing, and various forecasts on the further succession of events in this region in respect of strengthening of stability do not foretell anything good. Therefore the attention to our problems of you has special value.

Certainly, during time which has been taken away for my performance it is impossible to state full enough all complex of our problems, but I believe that the blank can be compensated considerably the big time, answered questions and answers.

Threats of territorial integrity of Ukraine

Crimea makes all about 4 % of the area and 5 % of the population of all Ukraine, but the events occurring on this peninsula, occupy in an information field of Ukraine and, especially, the nearest neighbour of Ukraine — Russia much more place, than many other regions of Ukraine together taken. This results from the fact that this peninsula has a number of features, and together with them and the problems which untimely permission can lead to direct conflicts both in the Ukrainian society, and in mutual relations of Ukraine and Russia.

The situation has become more complicated and became more disturbing after the Russian-Georgian war in August, 2008 when the Russian armies have occupied a considerable part of sovereign Georgia, have created there the military bases and unilaterally declared a recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, than have roughly trampled on territorial integrity of Georgia.

The alarm has even more amplified after acceptance by Russia in the beginning of this year of the new military doctrine according to which this country considers itself has the right to apply military force outside of the territory if will consider that Russians living in another countries are exposed to any threat. I will remind that references to infringements of the rights of Abkhasians living in this country and the Ossetin, which gave the Russian passports were before one of the main arguments of Russia in the justification intrusion on territory of Georgia. And citizens having the Russian passport and citizens with a dual citizenship in Crimea some tens thousand are at least.

Danger to Crimea and Ukraine as a whole the Russian-Georgian war consisted also that the ships of the Black Sea fleet of Russia based in Sevastopol participated in this war and fired at cities of Georgia. And by rules of war Georgia, in the presence of possibilities and desire, as it is known, had a just cause to open reciprocal fire not only on these ships, but also on their bases, that is on territory of Crimea. Therefore the further stay of the Russian Black Sea fleet in territory of Ukraine, especially in the light of the new military doctrine of Russia, will continue to serve as an obstacle for an establishment of normal relations between Russia and Ukraine, to serve as threat of territorial integrity of Ukraine, and also one of the reasons of international intensity in Crimea as separative Prorussian forces in Crimea consider this fleet as own support.

International and interconfessional relations, discrimination of the radical people of Crimea

The problems existing in Crimea, have the historical roots, and many of them are a heritage of that brutal policy which spent in Crimea under the relation, first of all, to its radical people — to the Crimean Tatars of the power of monarchic Russia, and then and a Bolshevist mode. Total deportation and a genocide of the radical people of Crimea on May, 18th, 1944, and later — Bulgarians, Greeks and Armenians were apogee of this criminal policy, as it is known. In August, 1941, that is in the beginning of war with Germany, from Crimea all ethnic Germans living on peninsula have been moved.

I recognise that the present the history of mass deportations of the complete people which were carried out in days of the USSR is known enough, therefore I will be limited only to a mention of that only in the first years of dispatch, in the conditions of hunger, a cold and the lawlessness, reigning in places special settlements in which the human life entirely depended on whim of the military commandants who were guided by certificates, has been destroyed over 40 % of the radical people of Crimea — the Crimean Tatars the majority from whome were children, old men and women as the basic man’s population was on war fronts.

These evil deeds, certainly, fall under qualification of a genocide for utter annihilation of the Crimean Tatar people as original ethnos was their ultimate goal. Catastrophic consequences of a genocide cannot be overcome and today

Moved in a mass order to Crimea from regions of Russia and lodged in houses deported to people the Soviet propagation within many decades introduced thought that the sent people were enemies of the Soviet power and all Russian, that is created in their person an image of the enemy. It is necessary to tell that this propagation got on a fertile field as it gave to new settlers certain a peace of mind, in some measure morally justified that they became owners of everything that has been taken away from the Crimean Tatars sent by the Soviet power on sufferings and death. On this propagation some generations of people have grown and, naturally, hostile moods in relation to the Crimean Tatars are appreciably saved and to this day. It is necessary to notice also that about 90 % of the present Russian-speaking population of peninsula post-war immigrants and their descendants make. There are many political forces, as with to Ukraine and especially in Crimea, and also outside of Ukraine which are interested in preservation of this intensity.

According to the sociological inspections spent by some organisations almost annually in Crimea before anniversary of deportation of the Crimean Tatars on May, 18th, 1944 on a subject what do they think of the fact of this deportation, approximately 70 percent of Russian-speaking inhabitants of Crimea quite justify this crime, and, considerable enough percent of the same people considers that the Crimean Tatars followed move from Crimea repeatedly.

According to the same sociological researches, about the same percent of the Russian-speaking would like to see Crimea as a part of the Russian Federation. And as the Crimean Tatars in the basic weight categorically against similar prospect they are considered by adherents of Russia as the opponents.

In structures of the power of the Crimean autonomy, including in law-enforcement and judicial bodies, chauvinism level at all in a smaller measure, than on the household. Therefore the Crimean Tatars everywhere and at all levels are compelled to face enough rigid discrimination and rough infringements of the elementary rights. The numerous crimes made in territory of Crimea against the Crimean Tatars, including acts of vandalism, defilements of cemeteries, mosques, arsons of offices, threats to the Crimean Tatars, as a rule, remain not opened and unpunished.

The overwhelming majority of believers in territory of Crimea consider themselves orthodox and carry themselves to orthodox church of the Moscow patriarchy, and the Crimean Tatars are Moslems.

Revival of a religious life of the Crimean Tatars, despite liberal views of the Ukrainian legislation, is complicated by high level of xenophobia and islamophobia in the environment of local officials. Thus, it is frequent civil servants openly lobby interests of believers of one, most numerical faith, and interfere with the rights of believing other faiths, in particular Moslems.

As an example I will result only a situation in the city of Simferopol in which throughout more than six years and the earth for building of the Cathedral mosque though during the same time for orthodox church was is not allocated are allocated more than 5 ground areas for building of temples.

Nevertheless, thanks to prudence of people, till now it was possible to avoid serious collisions in Crimea on religious soil though, unfortunately, attempts to them are made regularly.

For example, some years ago there was an attempt everywhere in Crimea, first of all at entrances to settlements and departures, and at times and in places of pre-war burial places of Moslems — the Crimean Tatars to establish orthodox crosses. Across all Crimea it was planned to establish about 2000 crosses. And, these crosses were produced and delivered to Crimea from Russia. Certainly, here business was at all in any Christian fanaticism as the leader of Communist Party of Crimea and simultaneously the speaker of parliament of an autonomy L.Grach, that is the representative of that political force which actively destroyed in due time in Crimea as mosques, and Christian churches and the Jewish synagogues headed this campaign. Certainly, it has called indignation of the Crimean Tatars and it hardly has not led to large-scale bloody collisions.

In a word, there are forces which professionally enough create from time to time situations which can seriously loosen fragile stability in Crimea.

Of the considerable contribution to kindling international and interconfessional break a set bring a news media under control to local political and oligarchical forces.

Many Russian-speaking newspapers and, especially, Internet sites are filled by the publications sowing neglect and hatred not only to the Crimean Tatars, but also to Ukrainians. Very often similar publications appear initially in a news media of Russia, and then are reprinted by Russian-speaking editions in Ukraine. To address in courts concerning bringing to account this news media or authors of publications as practice has shown, it is absolutely useless.

Problems of arrangement of the Crimean Tatars

For years of mass returning of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea which became possible only last years Soviet «reorganisation» and declaration of an invention of independence of Ukraine, it was formed about 300 settlements of compact residing of repatriates. In these settlements live from 500 to 6 thousand persons. Security engineering and social communications of the specified settlements in overwhelming majority of cases does not correspond to the minimum requirements: roads are not equipped, there are no systems gaz and water supply, is not present medical aid stations, schools, children’s gardens. Thus, if to consider and that circumstance that many families of the Crimean Tatars in these settlements still not in a condition to finish building of the houses becomes clear that they practically conduct daily struggle for a survival.

According to the data of the Ukrainian centre of economic and political researches of a name of A.Razumkov a rate of unemployment among the Crimean Tatars approximately twice above, than on the average across all Crimea.

If at the first stage of returning of the Crimean Tatars one of essential obstacles in their employment was ksenophobian relation of the majority of heads of the enterprises and officials in authorities now to them the reasons connected with crisis in economy and falling of manufacture were added that leads to mass reductions of the personnel. Dismiss, as a rule, those who has got a job after, in this case, Crimean Tatars.

In spite of the fact that the Crimean Tatars make now approximately 13 % of the population of an autonomy, level of their representation in structures of executive power and law enforcement bodies does not exceed 3-4 %, and in judicial bodies representation almost zero.

In exile places, mainly in Uzbekistan, remains under the different data from 100 to 150 thousand Crimean Tatars. The overwhelming majority of them aspires to come back to the Native land, however not in a condition independently to carry out moving owing to economic obstacles, and also the difficulties connected with a difference of migratory laws.

Agrarian question

Within already many years sharply enough costs in Crimea and a problem of restoration of justice in an agrarian question. If the authorities free allocated the earths to returning home repatriates many could built to themselves houses. But the authorities, on the contrary, have headed for fast distribution of the earths under summer residences and kitchen gardens to the Russian-speaking population, simultaneously refusing earth allocation under habitation building to the Crimean Tatars. The purpose consisted in stopping or, at least, as much as possible to complicate and slow down process of their returning.

Unfair, discrimination concerning repatriates the principle of privatisation of the earth has been put the Ground code of Ukraine accepted still in 2001, article 25th which says that the state earths and the earths of the municipal agricultural enterprises, that is the former collective farms and state farms, are transferred to the possession only to workers of these enterprises. As the overwhelming majority come back to Crimea from places of the reference of the Crimean Tatars and other repatriates owing to known circumstances could not be members of collective farms and state farms in territory of Ukraine they could not be participants of privatisation. If to consider that about 75 percent of the Crimean Tatars who have come back on the native land have lodged in a countryside deprived the earth and, accordingly, earnings sources appeared the overwhelming majority of repatriates. That is to repatriates not only not was the earths, houses and the property, illegally taken away are returned during deportation, but they have lost also the equal rights at privatisation of the earths. Officials of local administrations, the high-ranking ranks from Kiev and Russia, and also the various commercial enterprises which bribes to the officials responsible for a distribution of land, as a rule, pay have appeared owners of huge territories both in a countryside, and in cities mainly.

In these circumstances the Crimean Tatars are compelled to resort to autocratic employment of the empty state or municipal earths for habitation building that forms the basis for their charge in law infringement, leads to collisions with the authorities. The most serious and scale collisions occurred in the end of 2007 in Simferopol and on a plateau Ah-petri. Hundreds people participated In the first case in collisions — on the one hand the Crimean Tatars who have occupied the earths who contrary to the law for large bribes have been taken away by the city authorities to the commercial enterprise, and on the other hand militia with an armour and the young men employed by these commercial enterprise not Crimean Tatar nationalities.

The most severe and the attack on the Crimean Tatars on a plateau Ah-petri in November, 2007 when against small group of the Crimean Tatars have been thrown over thousand militiamen led by the extremely chauvinistically adjusted chief general A.Mogilev, some armoured troop-carriers was bloody. The authorities did not hide, what is it there was an action on intimidation of the Crimean Tatars. Operation was very severe, in unarmed people fire from fire-arms has been opened, some persons have been wounded. Later, the truth, as a result of mass protest actions of the Crimean Tatars with the requirement to involve guilty of the punishment organisation to the criminal liability the general Mogilyov, after change of the government and coming to power of prime minister J.Timoshenko, has been dismissed from numbers of militia of Ukraine.

Last years Kiev at high enough level had organised some commissions on check of legality of a distribution of land in Crimea. These commissions came in general to correct enough conclusions, opened scandalous things of infringement of the legislation in a distribution of land with officials of Crimea, but any essential measures on justice restoration in an agrarian question and it was not accepted. One of the reasons of it, in our opinion, is as well that ranks take part in an illegal distribution of land in Crimea from the higher echelons of power of Ukraine also, many of whome have illegally got ground areas in prestigious parts of Crimea.

Education problems on a native language and preservations of national culture and identity

One of the sharpest and, perhaps, the main problems facing the Crimean Tatar people the problem of preservation of a native language and national culture, preservation of the national identity is. As it is known, after deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in Crimea all traces of material and spiritual culture of the Crimean Tatar people have been destroyed, up to Muslim cemeteries, all settlements of Crimea are renamedt.

Being in exile, the Crimean Tatars have been deprived the right to train the children on a native language. Some generations of the Crimean Tatars have grown in the conditions of an interdiction of schools on Crimean Tatar language, absence of radio and telecasts on a native language. Use of Crimean Tatar language has completely moved from public sphere to a family. All it has led to that the young generation of the Crimean Tatars very poorly owns a native language even at household level.

Restoration (is more exact, — resuscitation) systems school and a preschool education on Crimean Tatar language is interfaced to huge difficulties, first of all, absence of means for building simultaneously tens schools.

And if still to consider that throughout more than 50 years were not developed and textbooks were not published, teachers for teaching on Crimean Tatar language can present consequences of losses of the Crimean Tatars in language sphere did not prepare. By this time with huge difficulties we managed to open across all Crimea of only 15 schools with training on Crimean Tatar language where can be trained and receive though any knowledge of a native language of all about 10 % of children of the Crimean Tatars of school age.

Similar problems are tested by the Crimean Tatars in revival of the centuries-old culture and national traditions. Practically all it is necessary to start from the very beginning — to revive theatre, to create museums and to restore the destroyed historical monuments, to establish mass-media on a native language and to publish a nursery and fiction, to carry out researches historical and a cultural heritage of the Crimean Tatars and to acquaint with them a society.

Participation of the state in the decision of social problems of the Crimean Tatars

The Ukrainian state after declaration of independence recognised at once at level of statements, but not laws, deportation criminality of the Crimean Tatar people and citizens of several other nationalities, undertakes some measures for the decision of social problems come back of places of deportation of people. Five years’ programs of the decision of these problems are developed and in the state budget annually for these purposes certain means are put. However the sizes of these means are rather far from pressing needs and cannot compensate those losses which have incurred the people during deportation. For example, in 2009 for the decision of problems deported it has been allocated all 53 million grivnas that makes about 7 million dollars (for an example — building of one school on 500 schoolboys costs about 40 million grivnas).

In spite of the fact that returning of the Crimean Tatars to the earths with different degree of intensity lasts already more than 20 years, repatriation process of the Crimean Tatar people is carried out in the conditions of absence in the legislation of Ukraine of the special laws called in the full form and on a fair basis to resolve the questions connected with returning, arrangement and restoration of the rights of the Crimean Tatars.

Our numerous attempts to induce the supreme bodies of the government of Ukraine in necessity at least stage-by-stage, but on the basis of laws, settlement Crimean Tatar problems have not led to success.

So, the law of Ukraine accepted in June, 2004 «About restoration of the rights of the persons deported to a national sign» for which 384 People’s Deputies of Ukraine have voted, was refused by the President of Ukraine of that time Leonid Kuchma, and subsequently parliament of Ukraine, owing to open torpedoing of similar bills by a number of political forces, and could not come back to its repeated consideration.

And though, to the Crimean situation and to a question on necessity of acceptance of special laws of Ukraine directed on restoration of the rights of the Crimean Tatars only in 2009 representatives of the different international organisations addressed, including the Supreme commissioner of OSCE on affairs of national minorities Mr. Knut Vollebekk and the President of Committee of regions of the European Union Mr. Ljuk Van den Brand, for what we are grateful to them, unfortunately, the recommendations stated by them and remained not heard by a management and politicians of Ukraine.

Actually, a problem of legislative maintenance of all process connected with returning, arrangement and restoration of the rights of the Crimean Tatar people that is a necessary condition and a guarantee of preservation and the further development of the radical people of Crimea, we allocate as the main problem without which decision it is difficult to count on the safe permission of other questions connected with development of Crimea.

Thereupon, we assign high hopes to cooperation expansion between EU Member States and Ukraine within the limits of the program «East partnership», called to promote in the countries-partners to formation of democracy and appropriate management, increase of stability and expansion of intercultural dialogue.

Situation after presidential election

Electoral liking of the Crimean Tatars, as a rule, always differ from liking of the majority of Russian-speaking electorate of Crimea, therefore level of international mistrust during election campaign raises a little. Especially it is characteristic during elections in local authorities. There are many candidates who try to convince voters that they will protect most effectively «Russian interests» in Crimea, will not admit «tatarization of Crimea», etc. During last presidential election the Russian-speaking majority of Crimea voted mainly for V.Yanukovych’s nominee who is considered the most Prorussian and antiwestern politician. National congress of the Crimean Tatars has urged the compatriots to vote in the first tour for someone from candidates from national-democratic forces, and in the second tour the majority suppressing them voted for J.Timoshenko’s nominee, is opened proclaimed idea of the European integration of Ukraine and its introduction into EU). And if in Crimea in the second tour for J.Timoshenko has voted all about 17 % of voters of Crimea it is possible to assert with confidence that at least about 10-12 % are voices of the Crimean Tatars. However, any international aggravation during last elections it was not observed, short of several enough false publications in a press and widespread dirty leaflets against Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people.

After election of the new president, as a rule, there are considerable personnel changes, that is the president tries to place moderately the powers everywhere correct to itself, the party of people. In Crimea and to elections the power basically has been concentrated in hands of Party of Regions, that is party of the newly elected President of the country of V.Yanukovych, and being in the union with this party of the several Prorussian organisations. Some concerning the high posts appointed the President in coordination with the cabinet, includin the representative of the President in Crimea, etc. were members of other parties and non-parties. Now, obviously, in Crimea there will be still a big concentration of the power in hands of Party of Regions and its allies — the Prorussian organisations. And, act in film from posts and more or less moderate heads who are members of the same party. For example, at session of Supreme Rada ARC which will take place today, on March, 17th in Simferopol, is planned to oust the present speaker of parliament of an autonomy A.Gritsenko, guilty that, appears, it was insufficiently active during presidential election, and on his place to select one businessman from the same party. To the place of the prime minister of an autonomy, according to press messages, general A.Mogilev earlier mentioned by me who in presidential election headed V.Yanukovych’s election campaign in Crimea applied. In private conversations this general already promises to «clear» all structures of the power of the Crimean Tatars completely.

For an illustration of political views of this general I will result some lines from its article «In Crimea events under the Kosovan scenario», published in one the Prorussian newspapers of Crimea — «the Crimean truth» develop:

«There is a shameful page and in a modern history of the Crimean Tatar people — mass treachery in the Great Patriotic War… Probably, during this period, when still there was a war, the country leaders has arrived correctly and humanely. Crimea — frontier territory, strategically important base and to have at itself in near back of the enemy would be the extremely unreasonable and imprudent… Proceeding from these reasons, the summer of 1941 from Crimea had been deported fifty two thousand Germans. Humanity consists that, first, upon termination of war before the state inevitably there would be a problem of restraint of mass certificates to sweep and population self-courts over voluntary participating in destruction of local residents, guerrilla groups, the Crimean underground…»

Further, characterising the Crimean Tatars, the general writes: «… East cunning always allowed them to accept shape made destitute, humiliated and the Koran did not begin an obstacle to accept handouts from the state of the incorrect…»

That is, insults not only to all nation, But also their religion — Islam. And, this article has been published by the general still when it was still the chief of militia of Crimea.

Disturbed by that the person with such fascist mentality can hold so responsible post in Crimea, I have addressed to leaders of its party to V.Yanukovych and N.Azarovu, have passed them texts of his publications and have warned about possible sharp deterioration of a situation on peninsula. They promised that will try to send him in other area of Ukraine far away from Crimea. And here, on March, 11th, this general is appointed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The further comments on this question, I believe are not necessary.

To our big regret, the people similar to this Mogilyov, holding high posts as in bodies of the central power in Kiev, and in particular in Crimea, it is far not units.

Expectations from EuroParliament and the European Union

Some words about what we would want from EuroParliament, the European Union and the European commission.

Democratic forces of Ukraine with the big satisfaction had been accepted the Resolution from October, 23rd, 2008 where Golodomor organised by the Soviet mode against the Ukrainian people is recognised as a crime against humanity. The similar estimation genocide and deportation of the Crimean tatar people from the native land with the subsequent almost semicentenial violent its deduction in reference places, undoubtedly, would be the considerable contribution on a way of restoration of justice concerning these people, would bring the essential contribution to improvement of an interethnic climate in territory of Crimea.

In the Resolution accepted by EuroParliament from April, 2nd, 2009 of the Resolution «About the European consciousness and totalitarianism» especially is underlined that «… From the very beginning the European integration was reaction to the sufferings caused by two world wars and nazi tyranny which have led to the Holocaust and occurrence of totalitarian communistic and not democratic modes in the countries Central and the Eastern Europe, and also search of means for overcoming of deep disagreements and animosities in Europe on the basis of cooperation and integration, for the termination of wars and democracy maintenance in Europe»

Addressing to a Crimean tatar problem, we recognise that elimination of destructive consequences of deportation of the Crimean Tatar people and decades of its violent deduction in places of exile demands the special approach of EU Member States and the European Union as a whole.

Thus, we call EU for planning and realisation together with the Ukrainian state and with the assistance of Crimean Tatars of the special programs promoting revival and development of one of the European people — the Crimean tatar people who have appeared as a result of crimes of a totalitarian communistic mode before threat of loss of the language and cultural identity.

To number of such programs, in addition to the efforts expected by us from outside EU in assistance to acceptance by Ukraine of laws, the rights directed on restoration the Crimean tatar people, we also carry:

Building in Crimea of tens schools and preschool child care centres in places of compact settlement of Crimean Tatars,

Assistance in strengthening of material and research base of the Crimean engineering-pedagogical university (Simferopol), being the basic place of preparation of humanitarian shots for the purpose of revival Crimean Tatar language, culture and art,

Restoration of unique historical and architectural monuments of Crimean Tatar cultures of the Middle Ages,

Assistance in development of electronic and printing mass-media on Crimean Tatar language,

Assistance in development of small and average business among repatriates,

Assistance in simplification of mechanisms of repatriation more than 100 thousand the Crimean Tatars still remaining against the will in places of exile,

Accordingly, we recognise that these and other questions connected with the decision of a Crimean Tatar problem, should be switched on in the agenda of Association Ukraine — EU.

I once again thank for the invitation and the possibility given to me to state to you our problems. I hope that the European structures will bring the contribution to the decision of urgent problems of Crimea. Simultaneously it is the contribution to business of strengthening of independent democratic Ukraine, to business of strengthening of stability to the Black Sea pool of the Eastern Europe.

I thank for attention and I with the great pleasure will try to answer all your additional questions connected with Crimea.

MF-inform

 

 

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