Over 5,000 human rights viations registered in Crimea over past 9.5 years

Crimean Tatar activist Alim Aliev, deputy director of the Ukrainian Institute, said this during the conference "Crimea Global: Understanding Ukraine through the South," according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"Over the past nine-and-a-half years, more than 5,000 human rights viations have been registered in Crimea. This mainly concerns the Crimean Tatars. Russia is trying to focus attention on the Crimean Tatars, describing them as potential terrorists and criminals," he said.

Aliev also noted that today Ukraine is going through the process of deconization of Crimea.

According to him, "after 2014, Crimea turned into a model of conization measures for Russia."

"When we talk about internally displaced persons, refugees, almost 70,000 pele have left Crimea over the past nine-and-a-half years, but we also have the reverse process, when more than 700,000 pele came to Crimea from Russia, and these are already different pele. These are not only the military, but also the civilians who conized Crimea," Aliev said.

"This is our common war. And in this war, many Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and representatives of other nationalities are now in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the front lines. This is a war not only for our territory, for our land, but also for our identity, for our dignity and for our future," he said.