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Crimean Tatar Youth Commemorates Victims of Genocide 1944 on Top of Chatyrdag
12 May 2013
On May 11, 2013, the annual action – requiem “Chatyrdag – 2013”, timed to the 60th anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatar people was held in Crimea. Around one thousand people gathered on Angar Cross at the foot of Chatyrdag Mountain to conquer its 1527 m summit.
According to the organizers of the action, the date May 11 was not chose accidentally – 69 years ago, on May 11, 1944, the Head of the State Committee of Defense of the USSR Joseph Stalin signed the Decision on the deportation of the Crimean Tatars.
This year the representatives of various Crimean Tatar youth organizations took part in the action: Crimean Tatar Youth Center, Bizim Qirim (Our Crimea), Emel’ (Endevour), Qardashlyk (Brotherhood), Yashlar Shurasy (Youth Council), Yashlar Sedasy (Voice of Youth), as well as the teachers, students and pupils from various regions of Crimea. The youngest participant of Chatyrdag climbing was 3 and the oldest one – 90.
Mr Refat Chubarov, President of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, First Vice Head of Mejlis, Mr Ayder Ismailov, Deputy Mufti of Muslims of Crimea and Mr Seidametov Yagyaev, Vice Head of the Crimean Federation of National Wrestling Quresh came to wish success in Chatyrdag climbing.
Of course, the majority of those who climbed the mountain were young people. However the representatives of the elder generation also joined the action.
Reaching the top of Chatyrdag Mountain 1527 m, the participants of the action held the mourning praying for the victims of the deportation and the forced exile. After that they performed the national anthem of Crimean Tatar people “Ant Etkenmen” (I swore).
