The Crimean youth on May, 17th in the evening on a central square of Simferopol has lighted two thousand candles in memory of victims of deportation of the Crimean Tatars which 66th anniversary is marked on May, 18th.
As correspondent UNIAN, participants of the action-requiem «passes Light a spark in the heart» have laid out from candles a contour of the Crimean peninsula, figure «66», an inscription «No genocide», a half moon with a star and a national symbol — tamga.
In the action have taken part about thousand persons. The Crimean Tatars have urged world community to recognise violent resettlement of 1944 by the genocide certificate.
«66 years ago there was a tragical event — a crime in relation to the whole people. We urge to recognise deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the genocide certificate», — the honourable chairman of Crimean Tatar youth centre Eskender Bariev has told to journalists.
The action «Light a spark in the heart» is spent in Simferopol not for the first time.
This year it has expanded geography, and, according to organizers, passes these days in Kiev, Ivano-Frankovsk, Moscow, London, Turkey and a number of villages of the Crimean peninsula.
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