Honourable chair, fellow delegates and esteemed guests, since the annexation of the autonomous

republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukrainian authorities have actively taken numerous
measures to protect the rights and freedom of Crimean Tartars. The crimean tartars are a muslim
ethnic minority indigenous to the cremina peninsula. With the announcement of partial mobilization
by president Vladimir Putin, reports of ethnic minorities in poorer regions being mobilised in
disproportionately high numbers have come to light. The mobilisation of the Crimean tartars makes
up the majority of these reports. These new draftees are to join the thousands of Ukrainians who
have already been called up to fight from Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk in east Ukraine.
Due to their rise, many cases of forcible mobilization and drafting have become a major concern. The
Ukrainian president said and I quote this is a deliberate attempt by Russia to destroy the crimean
tartar people, this is a deliberate attempt by the aggressor state to take the lives of as many
residents of the territory the Russian troops invaded as possible. The delegation of Ukraine finds this
act to be insensitive and discriminating towards the ethnic minorities and will not stand by as the
people belonging to these ethnic minorities and the Ukrainian people residing in Russian-invaded
areas, are used as a dispensable asset. The delegation of Ukraine requests all of you to help find a
solution before the people belonging to ethnic minorities in Russia find themselves in a position
where they are unable to leave their homes due to fear of being kidnapped or arrested off the
streets just to be drafted forcibly. Thank you
The Crimean Tatars had their own history in the modern period. They
formed the basis of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic,
which was set up by the Soviet government in 1921. This republic was
dissolved in 1945, however, after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin accused the
approximately 200,000 Crimean Tatars of having collaborated with the
Germans during World War II. As a result, the Crimean Tatars were
deported en masse to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, where their use of
the Tatar language was forbidden. They regained their civil rights in 1956
under the de-Stalinization program of Nikita Khrushchev, but they were
not allowed to return to Crimea, which had been incorporated into the
Ukrainian S.S.R. in 1954. It was not until the early 1990s that many
Crimean Tatars, taking advantage of the breakup of the Soviet central
government’s authority, began returning to settle in Crimea after nearly five
decades of internal exile. In the early 21st century, they numbered about
250,000.
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While still very prevalent in modern society, Tatarophobia generates more controversy and
pushback in modern times than it did in the past. While no longer officially a state-mandated
institution, it remains pervasive throughout government and society; a notable example being
when Russian consul Vladimir Andreev demanded that none of the invited Russian citizens
attend the debut of Haytarma, a film about Crimean Tatar twice Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-
khan Sultan, because it did not depict the Crimean Tatar population in a sufficiently negative
light. Andreev admitted that he did not actually see the movie when he told people not to attend,
but said that he felt it would be historically inaccurate because it was directed by a Crimean
Tatar.[4][5]
Confusion about different Tatar peoples has been taken advantage of by propaganda, which will
celebrate the relative equality experienced by Volga Tatar in order to lead uneducated recipients
of propaganda to confuse them with Crimean Tatars and be led to believe that interethnic
relations are overwhelmingly positive. It is not unusual for Volga Tatars to be praised and lauded
as brotherly peoples by the same institutions that simultaneously engage in Tatarophobia against
Crimean Tatars, and it is not unusual for the relative lack of hostility towards Volga Tatars to be
pointed out as an excuse to avoid correcting xenophobia towards Crimean Tatars. Despite the
Crimean Tatar language being very distant from the Kazan Tatar language, the Soviet Union
long opposed the request by the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement for their autonomy to be
restored in Crimea, and offered to create an autonomous region in Tatarstan for them instead -
insulting much of the Crimean Tatar leadership. [6][7]