No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates You are invited to join us in welcoming Mustafa Dzhemilev, Member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), the recognized leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement, a human rights activist, former Soviet dissident, and the former Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People at the opening of the exhibit No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates at The Ukrainian Museum in New York. When: 10:30 am, Sunday, March 30, 2014 Where: The Ukrainian Museum 222 E 6th St, New York, NY 10003 Tel. (212) 228-0110 Who: Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar communities in New York Metro area What: No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates – an exhibition of photographs by Alison Cartwright and sound installation by Maria Sonevytsky of stories and songs of the Crimean Tatars decades-long struggle to return to their motherland Why: To welcome Mustafa Dzhemilev and to show Ukrainian American solidarity with the Crimean Tatar people. Mustafa Dzhemilev - Biography Dzhemilev was born in Ay-Serez, Crimea, then Russian SFSR, on November 13, 1943. He was only six months old when his family, with the rest of the Crimean Tatar population, was deported by Soviet authorities in May 1944. He grew up in exile, in Uzbekistan. At the age of 18, Dzhemilev and several of his activist friends established the Union of Young Crimean Tatars. He thus began the arduous and long struggle for the recognition of the rights of Crimean Tatars to return to their homeland. Between 1966 and 1986, Dzhemilev was arrested six times for anti-Soviet activities and served time in Soviet prisons and labor camps, or lived under surveillance. In May 1989, he was elected to head the newly founded Crimean Tatar National Movement. The same year he returned to Crimea with his family, a move that would be followed by the eventual return of 250,000 Tatars to their homeland. In October 1998, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees awarded Dzhemilev the Nansen Medal for his outstanding efforts and “his commitment to the right of return of the Crimean Tatars.” In an interview Dzhemilev gave shortly after receiving the Nansen Medal, he emphasized that “when violent means are used, innocent people die, and no just cause can justify the taking of innocent lives.” The Crimean Tatar National Movement has been marked by persistent reliance on non-violence. Dzhemilev has declared that the Mejlis considers the recent referendum in Crimea illegal and that the results were manipulated by Russia. On the basis of this referendum Russia has illegally annex Crimea
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