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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2016 INSIDE: Ukrainian American Youth Civics and Public Policy Club – page 5 2016 Kobzar Literary Award presented in Toronto – page 9 Harvard grad students on experiential trip to Ukraine – page 13 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXIV No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016 $2.00 Remembering the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people Jamala triumphs at Eurovision UCCA statement on Ukraine’s Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide, issued on May 18 by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Every 18th of May, communities across the world pause to reflect on the mass murder of over 100,000 Crimean Tatars, a geno- cide conceived of and perpetrated by Joseph Stalin, in the course of the Soviets physically removing all indigenous people from the Crimean peninsula in 1944. Approximately 238,000 deportees, 113,000 of whom were children, 93,000 women, were rounded up in the early morning hours, placed on cattle cars, and sent away to far-off Soviet farm collectives and forced labor camps. This Sürgün, or “violent expulsion,” remains hidden in the annals of 20th century atrocities, just as the brutal colonization of Crimea in 1783 by tsar- Andres Putting (EBU) ist Russia, which saw tens of thousands of indigenous Crimean Jamala reacts to winning the 2016 Eurovision Tatars drowned for the amusement of their captors. A victory for Ukraine Song Contest. This May 18, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), the representative organization of over 1 million and Crimean Tatars Given the contest’s prohibition against political Americans of Ukrainian descent, joins the Ukrainian World songs and gestures, Jamala consistently said she was Congress, the international assembly of Ukrainian organizations by Zenon Zawada singing only about history leading up to the event, representing over 25 million people worldwide, and the govern- KYIV – Crimean Tatar R&B/soul-style singer enabling her to participate. Yet on the contest’s eve, ment of Ukraine not only to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of Jamala succeeded in drawing the world’s attention to she confirmed what was widely suspected that one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Crimean Tatar the Russian government’s persecution of her people “1944” was just as much about the present. people, but in calling on the United States, the United Nations and by winning the annual Eurovision Song Contest with “Of course, it’s about 2014 as well,” she said in an European Union member states to recognize the mass expulsion of her song “1944” about Stalin’s mass deportations interview published on May 13 on the guardian.com and genocide. news site. “These two years have added so much sad- (Continued on page 2) Jamala finished second among public voting and ness to my life. Imagine – you’re a creative person, a in second place among juries during the contest’s singer, but you can’t go home for two years. You see final round on May 14, placing her ahead of the your grandfather on Skype, who is 90 years old and U.S. Embassy in Ukraine releases flashy yet standard fare of pop music presented by ill, but you can’t visit him. What am I supposed to do: runner up Dami Im of Australia and third-place fin- statement on Crimean Tatar anniversary isher Sergey Lazarev of Russia. (Continued on page 17) Following is a comment on the anniversary of the Soviet deporta- tion of Crimean Tatars that was released on May 18 by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. It is attributed to U.S. Embassy spokesperson Jonathan Lalley. Obama nominates new ambassador to Ukraine WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on May We join the Crimean Tatars and all the people of Ukraine in com- 18 announced his nomination of Marie L. Yovanovitch memorating the solemn anniversary of the forcible deportation of as ambassador to Ukraine, replacing Ambassador more than 230,000 Tatars from their Crimean homeland in 1944. Geoffrey R. Pyatt, whom he nominated to serve as Today, Crimean Tatars continue to face repression and discrimi- envoy to Greece. nation under Russian occupation in Crimea. Almost 10,000 Ms. Yovanovitch, a career member of the Foreign Crimean Tatars have been forced to flee the peninsula since the Service, class of minister-counselor, currently serves Russian occupation began in 2014. Those who remain have been as dean of the School of Language Studies at the subjected to abuses, including abusive interrogations, beatings, Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute, a arbitrary detentions, and police raids on their homes and position she has held since 2014. mosques. This brutality and mistreatment must end. Ms. Yovanovitch was deputy commandant at the We are particularly concerned by the recent arrest of Deputy Eisenhower School at the National Defense University Head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis Ilmi Umerov. We call on the Russian from 2013 to 2014. She served in the Department of Federation to reverse the decision to designate the Mejlis as an State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs as “extremist” organization and the decision by de facto authorities in principal deputy assistant secretary from 2012 to Marie L. Yovanovitch Crimea to suspend this democratic institution. 2013 and as deputy assistant secretary from 2011 to We condemn Russia’s occupation and attempted annexation of 2012. also served at posts in Canada, Russia, Somalia and Crimea, which we do not recognize, and call for an end to Russia’s Prior to that, she served as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. occupation. We have been very clear with Russia that our Crimea- Armenia from 2008 to 2011 and as ambassador to Ms. Yovanovitch received a B.A. from Princeton related sanctions will remain in place until Moscow returns con- Kyrgyzstan from 2005 to 2008. University and an M.S. from the National War College. trol over Crimea to Ukraine. Ms. Yovanovitch was senior advisor and executive Mr. Pyatt, nominee for U.S. ambassador to Greece, We also reaffirm our support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and ter- assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary for has been ambassador to Ukraine since 2013. ritorial integrity and our deep support for the rights of all the peo- Political Affairs from 2004 to 2005 and deputy chief of The nominations must be confirmed by the U.S. ple of Ukraine, including those in Crimea. mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv from 2001 to 2004. Senate. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1986, she has Source: White House, Office of the Press Secretary 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016 No. 21 ANALYSIS Remembering Crimean Tatars’ deportation tion, which states, “whereas the European A bad case of Savchenkophobia Union and the international community KYIV – Ukraine on May 18 commemorat- would quickly become something that have repeatedly voiced their concern over by Brain Whitmore ed the victims of Soviet dictator Joseph the situation of human rights in the occu- RFE/RL Ukrainians have never had – a leader with Stalin’s mass deportation of Tatars from clear and unambiguous moral authority. pied territories and the systematic persecu- Crimea in 1944. A minute of silence was tion of those who do not recognize the new Vladimir Putin’s regime clearly has a bad It would have a leader unsullied by the observed across the country at noon – case of Savchenkophobia. past and uncompromised by the current authorities; whereas these so-called except in Crimea, where Russia-backed authorities have targeted the indigenous It’s true. The Kremlin is absolutely terri- corrupt elite. authorities have banned annual commemo- fied of its hostage. It would have a leader who took herself community of Crimean Tatars, a majority of rations of the deportation after Moscow whom oppose the Russian takeover of the The Kremlin is terrified of Nadiya to the brink of death for the sake of Ukraine illegally annexed the peninsula in March peninsula; ...whereas the Mejlis has now Savchenko in captivity, where she is a potent and who flipped the bird at Vladimir 2014. “On this important day, as always, we been declared an extremist organization symbol of the Putin regime’s petty and cruel Putin’s kangaroo court. stand together with our brotherly Crimean and included in the Russian Justice brutality and of Ukraine’s resistance. Ukraine would have its Vaclav Havel; it Tatar people, share our common pain, and Ministry’s list of NGOs whose activities But the Kremlin is even more terrified of would have its Nelson Mandela. bow our heads to commemorate the vic- must be suspended; ...[the European what Savchenko would become if she were Savchenko wouldn’t even need to for- tims,” Ukrainian President Petro Poro- Parliament] strongly condemns the deci- freed. mally enter politics to claim this mantle. shenko wrote on Facebook. In November sion of the so-called Supreme Court of This became abundantly clear yesterday Her mere presence on Ukrainian soil 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament approved Crimea to ban the Mejlis of the Crimean [May 17] when the Russian Justice Ministry would do the trick. the bill recognizing May 18 as the Day of Tatar People, and demands its immediate announced that a long-awaited prisoner And that would be the Kremlin’s worst Remembrance of Victims of the Crimean reversal; considers this decision to consti- exchange to release the kidnapped Ukrainian nightmare. Tatar Genocide. Starting on May 18, 1944, tute systemic and targeted persecution of military pilot will not happen. some 200,000 Crimean Tatars were put on the Crimean Tatars, and to be a politically The Putin regime appears to have con- The text above is a transcript of the May trains – most of them in the space of just motivated action; ...calls for the EU to pro- cluded that it cannot release its hostage – 18 edition of “The Daily Vertical,” a podcast two days – and sent to Central Asia.
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