Notwithstanding that Ukraine recognizes the crime of the deportation of Crimean Tatars and has demonstrated solidarity with them, the state has not so far taken the necessary measures to fully restore the rights of the Crimean Tatar people, the chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people, MP Mustafa Dzhemilev, has said.
"Today we are still far from the complete restoration of the rights of our people. The Crimean Tatars have been almost completely removed from the management of the autonomy," he said in Simferopol on Tuesday at a Crimean memorial meeting dedicated to the Deportation Victims Remembrance Day.
He said that no respect had been yet shown in Crimea for international norms that foresee minimum representation for the bodies of minorities and indigenous people, the functioning of their languages and cultural development.
Dzhemilev also noted that the state did not contribute to the restoration of the system of education in the native language of the Crimean Tatars, "thereby dooming the Crimean Tatars to assimilation and the loss of their national identity."
