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11 hours ago · The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatar halqınıñ sürgünligi, Cyrillic: Къырымтатар халкъынынъ сюргюнлиги) or the Sürgünlik ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars which was carried out by Soviet Union authorities from 18 to 20 May 1944, supervised by Lavrentiy Beria, chief of Soviet state security and the secret police, and ordered by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
11 hours ago · Jewish sources indicate that every year, the courts must see to it that the roads to the cities of refuge are marked and accessible to asylum seekers, in order to enable them quick escape: “If a court was dilatory regarding this matter, it is considered as if they shed blood” (Mishneh Torah, Murderer and the Preservation of Life, 8:6).
1 day ago · This escalated into a pogrom in which Russian hooligans even attacked a police station which sheltered the runaway Chechens. Many refugees from the Soviet Union were moved to the empty homes, including Russians, Ukrainians, Avars and Ossetians. As a consequence of this, the Russians comprised 49% of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR by 1959.
