The Crimean State Council Presidium has asked people of the republic to abstain from political rhetoric at the remembrance events dedicated to the 70th deportation anniversary.
“Year after year the remembrance events resembled a political show.
The annual saber rattling caused a feeling of sadness and
incomprehension in Crimea. Let politicians be silent on this day. Let
the memory and the pain talk,” said a statement unanimously adopted at a
meeting of the Crimean State Council Presidium on Wednesday.
Until recently the Day of Remembrance for Deportation Victims marked
in Crimea on May 18 was focused on the deportation of Crimean Tatars,
although Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Germans and people of some other
nationalities were also deported from Crimea in 1944, the Presidium
indicated.
It urged the joint turnout of members of ethnic communities populating the peninsula at remembrance events.
