TOAST TO DEMISE OF THE OCCUPANT REGIME IN CRIMEA

In its New Year message the Crimean Committee (www.freecrimea.org) expresses hope that 2007 will mark the beginning of the end of the occupant Ukrainian regime. The Committee points out to the events of 2006 leading up to such a conclusion: withdrawal under popular pressure of NATO troops who arrived in the peninsula for military exercises with the Ukrainian armed forces, rising awareness among the Crimeans about true intentions of politicians in Kiev, growing activities of such pro-Russian organizations as Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia and the Proryv (Breakthrough). The outgoing year has seen growing dissatisfaction among Crimean Tatars. It has been revealed at the recent Tatar national Convention the Kurultay. Some rank and file delegates have openely defied the self proclaimed (and illegitimate according to Ukrainian law) “Tatar national parliament”, the Medjlis. Twelve delegates to the convention have been expelled for their dissenting views by order of Tatar leader Mustafa Djemilev. Mr. Djemilev could not tolerate dissidents who refused to follow the official line of sucking up to the Ukrainian state. Several days after the Kurultay ended, a group of Tatars announced a new initiative: the creation of a popular movement for reunion with Russia. “It’s a return to the sources of the Crimean Tatar Movement for the Right to live in the Crimea”, the message says. “The founders of this movement insisted on re-establishment of the Crimean Tatar autonomy within Russia and not the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Even less so within the today’s Ukraine, a unitarian state, intolerant of any autonomy and keen on dismantling of the Autonomous Crimean Republic”.
The Crimean Committee reminds that the Crimea rejected the orange regime from the beginning. And now the Crimean population hates it even more. The consequence of this hatred was setting up of resistance movements. “The year 2007 will see the agony of the Ukrainian regime in the Crimea continue, says the Crimean Committee. And midnight December 31 for let’s raise our glasses filled with champagne for its final demise and its kicking out from the Crimea! Happy New Year!”