Crimean Tatars prepare to crackdown of the rallies on Deportation Day, May 18, Dzhemilev

Mustafa Dzhemilev says it is possible the Crimean Tatars' rallies on Deparotation Day (May 18) may be break up with force.

He informed about that during his press conference in Kyiv.

It is possible that Crimean Tatars will join the rally, holding Crimean Tatars' national flags along with the Ukrainian flags. You know, the Ukrainian flag for the Russian authorities is like a red rag for a bull. In this case we can't exclude the use of force. Anyway we don't exclude any incidents,
— Dzhemilev noticed

 

He has added the situation is worse also because there will be no representatives of the Crimean Tatars expat communities from Romania, Turkey, the US and a range of the EU countries in Crimea as there is no flight connection of the peninsula with other countries.