The Dutch House of Representatives adopted a resolution acknowledging the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatar people by the Soviet authorities during the Second World War as genocide.
This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andriy Sybiha.
“This is a powerful gesture of solidarity with the Crimean Tatar people, who are still being persecuted during Russia’s temporary occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea,” he wrote.
The Minister emphasised that recognising this historical injustice is essential not only for the sake of truth and justice, but also for preventing future crimes.
Sybiha noted that the Netherlands has become the seventh country outside Ukraine to recognise this crime as genocide, and he called on all other countries to follow suit.
- The Verkhovna Rada has urged the governments and parliaments of foreign countries, international organisations, and parliamentary assemblies to honour the memory of the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide, to recognise the 1944 deportation as an act of genocide, and to join efforts to stop Russia’s violations of the rights of Crimean Tatars.