The Czech Republic has recognized the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide.

The Czech Senate recognized on December 18 the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide.

This was reported by the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the PACE Maria Mezentseva and member of parliament Nikolai Knyazhitsky.

Mezentseva stated that the Czech Senate unanimously acknowledged the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide.

According to the Senate's website, 76 senators were present, of which 70 voted “in favor,” four abstained, and no one voted against.

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It is known that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviet regime's genocide, which deported the entire Crimean Tatar people from the Crimean Peninsula.

Previously, the deportation was recognized as an act of genocide against the Crimean Tatar people in 2015 by Ukraine, in 2019 by Latvia and Lithuania, in 2022 by the House of Commons of Canada, and in 2024 by Poland and Estonia.

Every year in Crimea, commemorative events are held to mark the anniversary of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, including a mourning rally in the center of the Crimean capital. However, following Russia's military operation to seize the Crimean Peninsula, the Russians prohibited such actions in the temporarily occupied Simferopol.

The communist regime of the USSR and subsequently Russia have deliberately propagated the myth of “treachery” concerning the Crimean Tatars for decades. Today, the occupying country uses this narrative to spread hatred, oppression, and discord in the temporarily occupied Crimea.