The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people has announced plans for a March of Dignity against Violence and Occupation from mainland Ukraine to Russian-occupied Crimea. According to Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis, or self-governing body of the main indigenous people of Crimea, they hope that this will help the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Union and other international structures in implementing the decisions taken with respect to Russia’s illegal occupation of the peninsula.
“We are going home,” Mr. Chubarov stresses, after almost six years in which Russia has exiled virtually all leaders of the Mejlis from their homeland, as well as banning the Mejlis itself.