Cossacks suspected of desecrating a Crimean Muslim Cemetery
Police call for help in guarding Muslim cemeteries
UNHCR concerned over situation in the Crimea
Muslim cemeteries in the Crimea to be guarded
Muslim cemetery desecrated near Simferopol
Possible breakthrough in finding those who desecrated a Crimean Muslim Cemetery
Crimean Tatars accuse Crimean enforcement bodies of xenophobia
Police suspect people linked with the Cossack unit “Sobol” to be behind the major attack on a Muslim Cemetery of the Nizhnyohirske settlement in the Crimea. This was announced on Tuesday during a press conference given by the Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Lutsenko in Simferopol.
Yury Lutsenko said that some of the suspects were implicated in other crimes as well.
“It is extremely difficult to prove guilt. They were there (in the settlement where the attack took place0 anyway, celebrating something”.
He stressed that the police were working on uncovering the crime “since this was, in our view, one of the most unprecedented acts of vandalism to have occurred anywhere in Ukraine, particularly given the overtones of inter-ethnic provocation”.
On 10 February all 220 gravestones in the central Muslim cemetery of the Nizhnyohirske settlement in the Crimea were destroyed. There was widespread outrage and the Mejilis of the Crimean Tatars and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine both made statements expressing concern and suggesting that the scale of the assault suggested careful planning.
Based on a report at: http://human-rights.unian.net/ukr/detail/187374
Police call for help in guarding Muslim cemeteries
UNHCR concerned over situation in the Crimea
Muslim cemeteries in the Crimea to be guarded
Muslim cemetery desecrated near Simferopol
Possible breakthrough in finding those who desecrated a Crimean Muslim Cemetery
Crimean Tatars accuse Crimean enforcement bodies of xenophobia