25 September 2024

Appeal to Sign a Petition Asking Germany to Recognize the Deportation of Crimean Tatars as Genocide

We urge you to sign a petition asking the German Bundestag to recognize the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide. Guided by the principles 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, by order of Stalin, the Indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars, were forcibly deported from Crimea. About 200,000 women, children, and older people 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.

We urge you to follow the link and sign the petition; detailed instructions are on the slides:

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petitionen/_2024/_07/_12/Petition_170582.html

Thank you!