Forum on Minority Issues - 9-th session “Minorities in situations of humanitarian crises” Agenda item 4. Protecting minority rights during humanitarian crises Statement presented by Eskender Bariiev, the member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Had of Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Dear President! Ladies and Ladies and Gentlemen! Dear President! Ladies and Gentlemen! As a representative of the Crimean Tatar people, I want to express my gratitude to all the member countries that supported the resolution on the Crimea at the 3rd UN Committee. The Crimean Tatar people became a minority in their homeland, as a result of a purposeful policy of genocide after the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 1783, unfortunately, this policy continues after the beginning of the occupation of Crimea by Russia in 2014. In violation of the IV Geneva Convention of 1949, a policy of population substitution is carried out. According to our data, more than 120 thousand people from the RF have been brought to the Crimea, while about 27 thousand people left the Crimea, who officially registered with the competent bodies of Ukraine as IDPs. The last case is the deportation of Nedima Khalilov, an activist of the Crimean Tatar people, who was detained and taken from the Crimea on November 7, 2016, and is in a temporary detention facility in the Krasnodar Territory, only because he refused to accept Russian citizenship. He is currently on hunger strike. April 26, the so-called. The Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea banned the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the representative body of the Crimean Tatars, violating Articles 5, 18 and 19 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to the collective right of the Crimean Tatars to manage their representative institutions. Armed people make attacks on mosques during prayers, in cafes, in markets, detain mass Crimean Tatars, forcibly drive them to buses and take them to the so-called. Committee to Combat Extremism, people collect personal data, take saliva for analysis, fingerprints. This is a direct violation of Article 12 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). On May 25, Ervin Ibragimov, a member of the Council of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, was kidnapped in Bakhchisaray. It is not found until now. The case with Ervin Ibrahimov is one of twenty-six cases of abducted Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians, 12