- 14 (e) perpetrating and tolerating a campaign of disappearances and murders of Crimean
Tatars;
(f) harassing the Crimean Tatar community with an arbitrary régime of searches and
detention;
(g) silencing Crimean Tatar media;
(h) suppressing Crimean Tatar language education and the community’s educational
institutions;
(i) suppressing Ukrainian language education relied on by ethnic Ukrainians;
(j) preventing ethnic Ukrainians from gathering to celebrate and commemorate
important cultural events; and
(k) silencing ethnic Ukrainian media.
138. Ukraine respectfully requests the Court to order the Russian Federation to
comply with its obligations under the CERD, including:
(a) immediately cease and desist from the policy of cultural erasure and take all
necessary and appropriate measures to guarantee the full and equal protection of
the law to all groups in Russian-occupied Crimea, including Crimean Tatars and
ethnic Ukrainians;
(b) immediately restore the rights of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and of
Crimean Tatar leaders in Russian-occupied Crimea;
(c) immediately restore the rights of the Crimean Tatar People in Russian-occupied
Crimea to engage in cultural gatherings, including the annual commemoration of
the Sürgün;
(d) immediately take all necessary and appropriate measures to end the disappearance
and murder of Crimean Tatars in Russian-occupied Crimea, and to fully
and adequately investigate the disappearances of Reshat Ametov,
Timur Shaimardanov, Ervin Ibragimov, and all other victims;
(e) immediately take all necessary and appropriate measures to end unjustified and
disproportionate searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars in Russian-occupied
Crimea;
(f) immediately restore licenses and take all other necessary and appropriate measures
to permit Crimean Tatar media outlets to resume operations in Russian-occupied
Crimea;
(g) immediately cease interference with Crimean Tatar education and take all
necessary and appropriate measures to restore education in the Crimean Tatar
language in Russian-occupied Crimea;