Thu, 2019-08-08 00:18
DUBAI: Five years ago, the Russian Federation annexed the Crimean Peninsula by sending troops into the Ukrainian territory to take control of the local parliament. For the ethnic Tatar Muslim population of the area it has plunged their lives once more into tragedy.
In the first six months of this year, Crimean Tatars who have lived on the peninsula since at least the 15th century, accounted for a disproportionately large majority of the number of arrests — 138 out of 200 — made by Russian Federation authorities.
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