Wednesday, September 24, 2014

TV Tatar minority in the Crimea accused of extremism – Onet.pl

In a letter sent to the ATR Crimean branch of the Russian Interior Ministry wrote that the station “deliberately instigator of the Crimean Tatars, showed not to trust the authorities” – tells the AFP, which received a copy of letter.

He also accused ATR regularly speak of “repression of ethnic and religious” against Tatars and “shaping anti-Russian public opinion “on the peninsula, which is” indirect threat of extremist activity. “

Such accusations are” a very serious tone, “- said General Director of AFP Elzar station Islamowa.

– All charges placed on the station and expressed in this letter are invented and baseless. For nothing podżegaliśmy and not grozimy extremist activity; TV only informs its audience about what is happening on the peninsula – stressed Islamowa.

For the first time since the annexation of Crimea by Russia’s private and independent TV ATR, founded in 2005, shortly after the Orange Revolution, thinking about the end of the business. Station serves as the voice of the Crimean Tatars, minority constituting 12 percent today. the inhabitants of the peninsula.

In recent weeks, local authorities detained a number of activists of the Crimean Tatars and conducted a series of searches in the premises of minority, opposed to connecting the region to Russia. The acting governor of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov said on Monday that from a legal point of view, there is no such organization as the Mejlis (self-regulatory body of the Crimean Tatars). – She was not registered properly, she’s not – he said.

Russia had annexed in March belongs to the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula in the referendum deemed illegal by Kiev and the international community. 300-thousand Muslim Tatar community was against the referendum.

RosjTatarów deported from the Crimea in 1944 in connection with accusations of collaboration with the Third Reich. On the peninsula were allowed to return until the mid-80s As a result, a large part of the Tatar community is a negative attitude to the authorities in Moscow.

(dp)

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