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Crimean Tatars fear for future

The Crimean Tatars have a tragic history: around 200,000 of them were forcibly deported en masse to Central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944, after being falsely accused of collaborating with Nazi Germany.

They were finally allowed to return during the twilight years of the Soviet Union, and now make up around 12 per cent of Crimea's population - massively outnumbered by the ethnic Russians who dominate the peninsula.

The main problem for many Crimean Tatars is that they have not been able to reclaim the lands which their families possessed before the deportation. They accuse the authorities of doing little to help them reintegrate into Ukrainian society.

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26.11.2010. 00:22

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