The Presidential Mission in Crimea urges to sign a petition to the Bundestag to recognize the deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide

The Mission reported this on Facebook, according to Ukrinform.

“We urge you to sign a petition to the German Bundestag to recognize the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide,” the statement reads.

It is noted that, guided by the provisions of the UN Convention, the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars has already been recognized as genocide by Ukraine (2015), Latvia, Lithuania (2019), Canada (2022) and Poland (2024).

On May 18, 1944, on Stalin's order, the indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars, were forcibly deported from Crimea. About 200,000 women, children and the elderly were taken in cattle cars to work as forced laborers in remote areas of Siberia and Central Asia. More than 46% of Crimean Tatars died in the first years of deportation from starvation, disease, hard labor, and inhumane living conditions. In general, Russia has been pursuing a deliberate policy of colonizing Crimea and exterminating the indigenous population of the peninsula for almost three centuries.

You can sign the petition here.