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Crimean Tatars and Turkish diversionists generate tension in

 
 
Donar
 
Reply Mon 14 Aug, 2006 08:53 am
Crimean Tatars and Turkish diversionists generate tension in Ukraine

Ukrainian news media report that in the city of Bakhchisaray in Ukrainian Crimea, where the population is basically known to be mostly disaffected with the regime of new power in Ukraine ("orange" president Yushchenko and his former ally Yulia Timoshenko), Crimean Tatars are said to be trying to generate tension by force of anti-slavonic provocative actions like blocking entrance to central market in Bakhchisaray that Russian-speaking population use to trade at, which has been causing large-scale up-and-downers among Tatars and other local population every other day for about a week. Local people say that Tatars in number up to 400 people are paid for every day of blocking the market, in the evening they can watch TV and have free pilau and at night their camp is guarded by the police.

Local people believe that it is at the instigation of people of Yulia Timoshenko being sponsored by Americans (like Vasili Onopenko who was noticed among Tatar protesters) that Crimean Tatars try to destabilize the situation in the Crimea, which is done with the only intent to allow president Yushchenko to introduce "orange" dictatorship in the Crimea. Also many people believe that Tatars are supported by Turkey that keeps close contacts with Crimean Tatars and has views on the Crimean peninsula. It is well-known to the people who live there, that president Yushchenko had promised to give away the Crimea to Turkey after he gets elected for their support and now he is forced to fulfill the promise. As Yushchenko's opponent Yanukovich (who has Crimeans on his side) came to power after he was elected prime-minister, Yushchenko tries to bring Yanukovich into discredit in this region. By the way, it happens not only in the Crimea. Alarming messages arrive from East Ukraine (which is also known to be pro-Yanukovich) where a coal-mine explosion in Lugansk came up early on Sunday with 171 people down the mine at that moment. People believe it was a nonrandom incident as it took place exactly at the moment when most miners were underground during shift turnover. People say all this is owing to Yushchenko and Turkish diversionists who try to make a red-hot situation in the regions where Yanukovich is a favorite to make them be disappointed with him. I guess that some time or other these intrigues by Yushchenko will backfire himself.
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Emel
 
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Reply Mon 21 Aug, 2006 03:11 pm
Crimean Tatars and Turkish diversionists generate tension
This has nothing to do with Turkey. The clashes occuring in Bahcesaray stem from over a decade ago with a market operating on an ancient Tatar cemetary:

http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2371385

"Returning to their land in the late 1980s and early 1990s after being exiled by Stalin during World War II, Tatars found their native places renamed, their lands cultivated by new owners, and many of their holy places desecrated. The latter happened also to an ancient cemetery in the old capital of the Crimean khans -- Bakhchysaray -- which had become a street market. Crimean Tatar demands for the market to be removed have been ignored by local authorities for years.

Several people were injured near the market on July 8, when Crimean Tatars clashed with market vendors. The accident was apparently timed toward Yanukovych's upcoming arrival in Crimea. Yanukovych, however, backed Tatar demands after meeting with their leader Mustafa Dzhemilev on August 11. He promised to investigate the July 8 clash and to allot funds to build a Crimean Tatar memorial in place of the market, which, he reportedly told Dzhemilev, should be closed down within a month.

Such an outcome was probably not expected by the radical Slav groups. On August 12, a crowd consisting of market vendors, Cossacks, and skinheads clashed with Crimean Tatar protestors near the market. Hundreds of people armed with stones and metal rods took part in the clash, police said. About twenty people, mostly Tatars, were wounded and several cars were overturned. Radical Slavs smashed also the cars of Dzhemilev and Crimean Tatar MP Refat Chubarov. Riot police had to intervene with tear gas and machine-gun bursts in the air.

Later on the same day, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) head Ihor Drizhchany arrived at the venue, joined by Crimean Prime Minister Viktor Plakida, Crimean parliament deputy speaker Mykhaylo Bakharev, the local police chief, and the Crimean prosecutor. On August 13, Crimean government representatives signed a document with Crimean Tatar leaders, which had been earlier approved by Yanukovych, pledging to close the market down by September 11. Under the agreement, police will patrol the market until then.

The police have opened a criminal case and said that they hold radical Slavs responsible for the August 12 clashes in Bakhchysaray. The local pro-Russian groups have hurried to deny their involvement. Bakharev said that the Russian Community of Crimea, which the media listed among the organizers of the disorders, had nothing to do with that. The Russian Bloc also denied any wrongdoing.

(Interfax-Ukraine, August 11; Krymskiye izvestiya, Obkom.net.ua, August 12, 15; UNIAN, August 13; Den, Kommersant Ukraina, 1+1 TV, August 15) "
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 21 Aug, 2006 03:41 pm
Good work, Emel. I suspect that Donar is yet another incarnation of a mysterious poster we have who shows up, with a new screen name each time, to rant about the region of the Black Sea, the Caucasus, Georgia and the Ukraine. The odds are very good that we will never see this user name posting again. I can't say for a fact that it is the same person each time, but the style of the rant is the same each time.
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