The lower house of the Dutch Parliament has supported a motion recognizing the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in 1944 as genocide.
This was reported by the official website of the Dutch Parliament.
In the motion submitted by Dutch MP Derk Boswijk, it is stated that “various countries have recognized the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in 1944 as genocide.”
The motion also emphasizes that since the occupation of Crimea in 2014, many Crimean Tatars have been unjustly imprisoned, tortured, or have disappeared, suggesting that “Russia has most likely continued the policy of genocide against the Crimean Tatars.”
“The House of Representatives expresses its position that the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 qualifies as genocide by modern standards and condemns it,” the motion states, also requesting the government to determine whether the genocide of Crimean Tatars can be formally recognized.
Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrii Sybiha, welcomed the Dutch Parliament’s decision, calling it “a powerful gesture of solidarity with the Crimean Tatar people, who continue to face persecution.”
“I thank the Netherlands for becoming the seventh country outside of Ukraine to recognise this crime as genocide, and I urge all other nations to do the same. This is the right thing to do,” he wrote on the social network X.
