Posted on 01/19/2006 7:49:37 AM PST by x5452
Crimean Tatars Call On Kyiv To Restore Their Rights 12 December 2005 -- Members of the Crimean Tatar Congress gathered in the main Crimean city Simferopol said yesterday that Ukraine's integration with the West should not go forward until Kyiv restores Tatar rights.
Congressional delegates, issuing a statement at the end of the three-day session, accused Ukrainian authorities of disregarding the rights of Crimean Tatars, who were deported en masse by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1944.
RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reported that congress member Timur Dagci was among the voices calling for Kyiv to recognize the deportation as genocide:
"Our problem -- the problem of Stalin's genocide of the Crimean Tatar people -- is an undeniable fact, so I believe all countries, the United Nations, and the European Union will recognize it and will decide that it was indeed genocide," Dagci said.
Many Tatars have since returned to Crimea, but have been unable to reclaim valuable land and property that was theirs before the deportations.
The Tatar Congress delegates called on the Council of Europe and the European Union to make Ukraine's possible membership in the EU and World Trade Organization contingent on their recognition of Crimean Tatar rights.
(RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service/Interfax)
No. It's because political situation in Ukraine changes, as everywhere. Public opinion is volatile. What is now was not a year ago and vice versa. They loved Yushchenko then, they may be disgruntled now. So hard to grasp?
Yushchenko won in fair fight in the third round.
He may have won but there was nothing fair about that election from voter fraud to foreign funding it was decidedly against the will of the people.
(Hence the reason for the low polls for Yushchenko you desperatly want to ignore)
Current opinion polls are irrelevant, because they are being made now, and not then. Do I really have to tell you what is the idea behind opinion polls? They measure public opinion at a certain moment and public opinin changes in time. I feel like a kindergarten teacher lecturing a not very bright 6-year old.
Fell however you want. The fact is you're a naive fool if you beleive Yushchenko got high 90s in west Ukraine.
Put down the kool aid.
Further Mazepa is in Canada, not Ukraine, lot different situation. My freind who's from Lutsk (West Ukraine) and only been here for months has already attested to the situation on the ground in Ukraine with regard to the real attitude toards Yushchenko in Ukraine now and the amount of fraud in the election. You're little Soros worshiping idealism is pathetic.
So you have friends? And in Lutsk at that? Who are they? Former KGB lieutenants like yourself?
Try 55 year old woman who saw soviets pour salt into her church to keep people from going, and a lot more atomic crap than the official story on chernobyl.
She knows a former communst oligarch when she sees one, and hate's Yushchenko.
Loves Tymoshenko.
My mistake.
Further you may want to apologize for calling my friend a KGB agent, she's been screwed enough by soviets to not deserve that garbage.
So she loves Tymoshenko. Very well.
God bless Poland.
The fact that in Lvov oblast and surrounding areas Yanukovich was flat out banned from the televisions programs and news articles and Yushchi (since his oligarches control the media there) was on all the time. But why pay attention to those little facts?
Half his own party has defected into another opposition branch
Sounds nice, but it's not true.
If the opposition wins, he will be the first to scream for revolution...democratically of course.
Oposition (Yanukovych and Tymoshenko) will not, or at least might not be able to agree on a prime minister. For example one MP predicted another parliamentary elections withing half a year.
Fact, Yushchenko insisted and got a ban on delivering voting material to home bound voters, since most of the older people were voting for Yanukovich.
The polls don't like Mazepa.
The only reason you are holding out for the 'real election' is because you expect Yushchenko's voting fraud to keep his guys in power.
Why hard to believe? If even those same polls that are cited now, have Yanukovych getting 4-5% in the W. Ukraine, (the whole W.Ukraine, not just in Galicia.)
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Yes, I'm still banging my head against the wall for being away when Ukraine had the Orange Revolution. All of my 3 uncles and some of my friends have been on Maidan. Without a doubt I would've been in Kyiv as well.
That's a measure against voter fraud because there are no observers when these home votes get collected.
Wow defending not counting votes as a measure against voter fraud.
You're starting to sound like a democrat now.
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