Qurultay-Rukh Parliamentary Party in Verkhovna Rada of ARC Demands Amendments and Additions to Decision of VR ARC On Creation of Memorial to Victims of Concentration Camp in Territory of «Krasny» Collective Farm

30 September 2013

The MP’s of the Verkhovna Rada of ARC Mr Remzi Ilyasov and Mrs Safure Kadzhametova addressed the Speaker of the VR ARC Mr Konstantinov expressing the need to make amendments and additions to the Decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea on the creation of the memorial to victims of the concentration camp in the territory of “Krasny” collective farm.

Based upon the numerous addresses and demands of their electors and in order to prevent the further escalation of the tension the MPs of ARC Mr Ilyasov and Mrs Kadzhametova ask the Speaker of the Crimean Parliament to order to make amendments and additions to the before mentioned decision of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and its Presidium. In their address the MPs underscored the need in objective approach to solution of the issue of modernization of the territory of the former concentration camp and take a wider period considering that the concentration camp functioned in the Soviet period long before the invasion of Nazis to Crimea.

In addition, the MPs of Crimea ask to include two professional Crimean Tatar historians and MP of Crimea Mr Leonid Pelunsky into the composition of the Organizational Committee on creation of the memorial complex.

The MPs also demand obligatory inclusion of Muslim and Jew religious symbols in the approved project of the memorial complex along with the Orthodox one, or exclusion of any religious symbols at all.