What is the position of the Crimean Tatars three years after the annexation of the peninsula? What will be the consequences of the interim decision of the International Court of Justice in the Hague in April, which obliged Russia to give up actions that have signs of discrimination against the Crimean Tatars and to lift the ban of the Mejlis? Is the prospect of the presence of a mission of independent observers in the Crimea realistic?.

This was discussed at a conference in Berlin's Konrad Adenauer Foundation with the participation of German experts and representatives of the Crimean Tatar people, reports DW.

In the tradition of repressive politics, "The inhuman treatment of Russia from various forms of government - first tsarist, then communist - led to the fact that the occupation of the Crimean Tatars in 2014 was perceived as the continuation of such a centuries-old repressive policy," the first deputy minister said at the conference. Information policy of Ukraine, the Crimean Tatar Emine Japarov.

Therefore, she added, the Crimean Tatars had no illusions that Russia would arrange a happy life for them. The fact that the language of the Crimean Tatars was made public in the Crimea, what they build for them on the peninsula of the mosque and school, Dzhaparova calls "big and serious manipulation".

The Kremlin, among other things, has justified the accession of the Crimea to Russia by the alleged violations on the peninsula by Ukrainian authorities of human rights - not only of the Russian-speaking population of the peninsula, but also of the Crimean Tatars.

"The Kremlin has never presented convincing evidence of this," said expert of the Adenauer Foundation Wolfgang Meyer. - But in the time that has passed since the annexation of the Crimea, international organizations have collected a lot of information about the violation of human rights on the peninsula by the Russian authorities ".

Abductions, searches, arrests, courts ... Here are some facts that Hanno Shedler of the German Society for the Protection of Oppressed Peoples.

Such authoritative representatives of the Crimean Tatar people as Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov are prohibited from entering the peninsula. The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people is declared an extremist organization, its activities in the Crimea are banned.

Attempts by Russian authorities to create self-governing bodies that are obedient to them lead to friction and tension among the Crimean Tatars. Several of them, opposition-minded, disappeared without trace, six were sentenced to long prison sentences for clearly fabricated charges.

"In 32 cases new criminal cases were opened," continued Hanno Schadler. - Seven Crimean Tatars were forcibly sent to a psychiatric examination, including one well-known Crimean Tatar human rights activist, more than 170 people were temporarily detained, interrogated and registered with law enforcement agencies, more than 50 times the security services conducted searches in apartments, houses and mosques ".

The problem of monitoring in the Crimea This list is probably far from complete. The problem is that there are no organizations or structures in the Crimea that can register and document cases of violations of the rights of the Crimean Tatars.

Independent observers have no access to Crimea, Crimean Tatar human rights activist Aysha Memetova said at the conference, and Russia is doing its utmost to make it so.

The same international missions that were on the peninsula, she calls "profanation," since all of them were accompanied by Russian special services. There is no hope for Memetova and Russian human rights activists.

"The Russian" Memorial "played a rather large role in gathering information about violations in the Crimea and preparing claims to the European Court of Human Rights," Memetova said.. "But at the same time it should be noted that human rights organizations in Russia are not free in their actions, their influence should not be overestimated".

What will the Crimean Tatars present to Russia?.

And yet the collection of information in the Crimea is. Despite the repression, the human rights activist said, the Mejlis system on the ground continues to operate, people trust their regional representations, share information, talk about what is happening. Plus strong family ties.

"So any case when a person is missing or arrested, immediately becomes known," - noted Memetova. She considers it extremely necessary to collect evidence, document all such cases, since "without such evidence, in 5-10 years there will be nothing that could be presented to Russia".

According to Emine Japarova such work should be handled by an "international monitoring mission that would stay in the Crimea permanently, maintain contact with lawyers, families of political prisoners and themselves".

Expert of the Berlin Science and Politics Foundation (SWP) Susan Stewart also considers it important to gather information and document it for future trials, but is skeptical about the idea of ??

establishing a permanent international monitoring mission in the Crimea, since Russia will never take this step.

Emine Dzhaparova in general strongly doubts that "Russia can be persuaded that it stops the repression of the Crimean Tatars". This is evidenced, in her words, by Moscow's reaction to the decision of the Hague court. And Ukraine, she complains, "can do nothing to force Russia to implement these decisions".

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