To the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People

The resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "On recognition of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people" dated November 12, 2015 No. 792-VIII recognizes the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea in 1944 as the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people, and May 18 is established in Ukraine as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People.

Accordingly, on May 18, 2023, the College of Oil and Gas Technologies, Engineering and Service Infrastructure of ONUT there were held thematic educational hours in study groups in an online format, with the aim of commemorating the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.

On this day in 1944, the Soviet authorities began an operation to deport the Crimean Tatars, accusing them of mass desertion and cooperation with the enemy. More than 200,000 people were evicted from the peninsula. According to the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, in the first years after resettlement, more than 46% of all deportees died from hunger, exhaustion and disease, according to various estimates. Almost half of those who died in the first year were children under the age of 16.

For more than 20 years, the Soviet authorities completely denied the criminal nature of their actions. In 1967, the Verkhovna Rada of the USSR recognized the groundlessness of the total accusation against the Crimean Tatars, but they never received the right to return to the Crimea. The ban was valid until 1989.

The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance emphasizes that the whole world should remember russia's crimes against the Crimean Tatar people, because, as we can see, history repeats itself. The deportation of Ukrainians from our territories is a confirmation of this in the modern war.