On Friday, the Sejm passed a resolution commemorating the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide, pointing out the acts of genocide and persecution of Crimean Tatars; it also emphasized the invaluable contribution of the Tatars to Polish history.
Writes UNN citing Polska Agencja Prasowa.
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On Friday, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution commemorating the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide. 414 MPs voted in favor of the resolution, 16 against, and two abstained.
"Acts of genocide and persecution of Crimean Tatars fill us with special pain. We draw attention to the invaluable contribution of Tatars to the history and national heritage of Poland," the MPs wrote.
Here's what else the document points out:
On the morning of May 18, 1944, the authorities of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics began the deportation of Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula. Within three days, nearly 200,000 men, women and children were herded into cattle cars and deported to Central Asia and other countries under inhumane conditions. Siberia. 8,000 did not survive the deportation and another 45,000 died after arrival. After the deportation, the Soviets systematically destroyed Crimea's Tatar heritage.
The chairman of the parliamentary committee for foreign affairs, Pavlo Koval, stressed that the draft resolution was created to commemorate the deportation of Crimean Tatars and to tell about "the genocide committed by Soviet Russia against the Tatar people.
"We remind you that Poland does not recognize violent border changes, we remind you of the genocide committed against the Crimean Tatars (...), we remind you that we do not recognize any Russian annexations. We remind the free world of the fate of Polish Tatars and Poles of Polish-Tatar ties," Kowal said.
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