Crimean Tatars Want UN Peacekeepers

The leader of the Crimean Tatars says he wants international peacekeeping forces sent to the Black Sea peninsula, which Russia recently annexed from Ukraine. Veteran human rights campaigner Mustafa Dzhemilev, served six sentences in Soviet prison camps from 1966 to 1986.  He spoke Monday in New York at an informal U.N. Security Council session organized by Lithuania. After the meeting, Dzhemilev told VOA’s Russian service he feared Crimean Tatars could be the targets of violence...

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