The Prosecutor-General’s Office (PGO) has launched an investigation into the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944.
The press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea announced this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has stepped up its investigation of the criminal proceedings involving the forced relocation of the Crimean Tatar people and other ethnic groups from the territory of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1944," the statement said.
The PGO has registered 160 people who were forcibly displaced or whose family members were forcibly displaced from the Crimea in 1944 by representatives of the Soviet government.
With the aim of further questioning of these individuals as victims, the procedure for bringing them to the Kherson region has been agreed and the list of documents that they need to submit during their questioning to confirm their participation in the deportation has been approved.
In addition, as part of these criminal proceedings, materials (documents, publications, scientific articles) related to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars are being requested from 300 Ukrainian academic libraries.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the parliament called on the international community in May to recognize the deportation of Crimean Tatars from the Crimea in 1944 as genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.
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