Crimean Tatars may be relocated by new Russian controlled government.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/crimean-tatars-asked-to-vacate-land-regional-official-says/496451.html

Crimean Tatars Asked to Vacate Land, Regional Official Says
RIA Novosti
Mar. 19 2014 09:11
Last edited 09:13


Ukraine's breakaway region of Crimea will ask Tatars to vacate part of the land where they now live in exchange for new territory elsewhere in the region, a top Crimean government official has said.

Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev said Tuesday that the new government in Crimea, where residents voted Sunday to become part of Russia, wants to regularize the land unofficially taken over by Crimean Tatar squatters following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"We have asked the Crimean Tatars to vacate part of their land, which is required for social needs," Temirgaliyev said. "But we are ready to allocate and legalize many other plots of land to ensure a normal life for the Crimean Tatars," he said.

Temirgaliyev emphasized that members of the Tatar community could receive senior political positions in the new government, in an apparent move to ease ethnic tensions in the region.
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More at link.

Freedom is on the march.

[pscot]

1. Tell it to the Lakota

[frazzled]

2. Let the cleansing begin.

And I suppose if the Tatars politely decline to "relocate," some Cossack Brigades will be happy to oblige by making them a (conk on the head) offer they can't refuse.

Sheesh, my family went through this in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Will we see pogroms against Muslims now?

[riqster]

3. Well, who could have seen THAT coming???

I mean, it's only the same thing that happened the last time Russia took over the region...

[Blue Owl]

4. And their children...

The Tatar Tots...