Kurultai of Crimean Tatar People Held
On 28-29 August, in Simferopol, the 3rd session of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people was held. Representatives of the Crimean Tatar intellectuals on August 29 submitted to the consideration of the session of the Kurultai (national convention) a draft resolution on the necessity to prohibit privatization and development of the territories of old cemeteries in the Crimea regardless of the national and confessional affiliation.
The draft resolution proposes to work on the recognition of the old cemeteries of the Crimea as objects of the cultural heritage at the level of the state and the United Nations Organization on matters of education, science and culture to ensure due protection thereof and definition of the criminal responsibility “for elimination of historical traces of the nation in the depths of the land.”
The Kurultai decided to set up a work team to elaborate the mentioned document taking into consideration the existing norms of the international law on this question. The Kurultai also instructed the Mejlis to approve the elaborated draft resolution as a resolution of the Kurultai. The work team on the protection of old cemeteries includes a member of the Mejlis, chief editor of the newspaper “Kyrym,” Bekir Mamutov, and a member of the revision committee of the Kurultai, a representative of international human right organizations in the Crimea, Kurtseit Abdulaev.
