The Netherlands recognises deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide

In the Netherlands, the lower house of parliament officially condemned the deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet regime in 1944, qualifying it as an act of genocide according to modern international legal standards.

The statement of the parliamentarians emphasises that after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, representatives of the Crimean Tatar people have again become victims of persecution, including imprisonment, torture and disappearances. It is considered a long-term and systematic continuation of the policy of destruction of the Crimean Tatars.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha expressed his gratitude to the Netherlands, noting that this country became the seventh in the world (outside of Ukraine) to recognise the crime of deportation of Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide.