Tag: Tatar Muslims in Crimea

BY DAMHURI MUHAMMAD “We are afraid that Russian authorities will decide again that we are a disloyal people and something terrible will happen to us. If ethnic cleansing starts again, there will be no one to protect us,” said Zarema, a surviving journalist living in Crimea. In an interview reported by www.eeas.europa.eu (March 18, 2022), she asked for her name to be anonymized for security reasons. Zarema is a real Crimean Tatar, a Muslim ethnic minority who has inhabited Crimea for hundreds of years. Ethnic cleansing meant by Zarema is a...