أوكرانيا: تتار القرم يشعرون بالاضطهاد

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعرَب المجتمع المسلم التتاري من مسلمي القرم عن شعورهم بعودة القمع الشيوعي مجددًا ليخيم على بلادهم، وذلك في ظل حملات الاعتقال والمداهمة التي تُنفذها القوات الروسية في أعقاب ضم "شبه جزيرة القرم" إلى "روسيا" مارس الماضي.

وتُناصب السلطات الروسية العداء الظاهر لمجلس تتار القرم، وتعمل على إثناء الأفراد عن الانخراط في الأنشطة الداعمة للحفاظ على حقوق مسلمي تتار القرم، وخاصةً التي تعكس رفض ضم المنطقة لـ"روسيا"، وتدعو للاستقلال الذاتي.

ويبلغ تعداد المسلمين من تتار القرم نحو 300 ألف، يمثلون 15%، ويعارضون ضم البلاد إلى الحكم الروسي في أعقاب انهيار "أوكرانيا"؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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A feeling of returning to the Soviet era persecution has been dominant among Crimean Muslim Tatars, where arrests and security crackdown has been worrying the religious community since Crimea's annexation by Russia in March.

"Authorities are trying to dissuade people from taking part in similar public rallies," Nariman Dzhelyal, the deputy head of the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars' self-governing body, told Radio Free Europe on Saturday, November 29.

"Authorities are also trying to tell people, 'This is what will happen to you if you follow the Mejlis, it can't protect you, don't attend their protest actions.'"

The Tatars, who have inhabited Crimea for centuries, were deported in May 1944 by Stalin, who accused them of collaborating with the Nazis.

The entire Tatar population, more than 200,000 people, was transported in brutal conditions thousands of miles away to Uzbekistan and other locations. Many died along the way or soon after arriving.

The Soviets confiscated their homes, destroying their mosques and turning them into warehouses. One was converted into a Museum of Atheism.

It was not until perestroika in the late 1980s that most of the Tatars were allowed back, a migration that continued after Ukraine became independent with the Soviet collapse in 1991.

The 300,000-strong Muslim minority makes up less than 15 percent of Crimea's population of 2 million and has so far been overwhelmingly opposed to Russia's annexation of the peninsula.