On a meeting of representatives of the Crimean Tatar people
from regions, districts and towns in Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan and Kazakhstan,
and also from the Krasnodar Region (Krai), Transcaucasia, Southern Ukraine
and the Crimea
(7-8 May 1972, town of Margelan, 3 pages)
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The Crimean Tatar working people, considering that
“the Party cannot fail to resolve … positively their national question, for the inevitability of its solution is dictated by the principles of Leninist nationalities policy … have for many years been appealing to the supreme Party and Soviet organs”.
Hundreds of thousands of individual letters are mentioned, many mass appeals are listed — to the 22nd and 23rd Party Congresses, and in connection with jubilees. New hopes are placed in the 50th anniversary of the USSR.
Three basic demands are formulated (cf. this issue CCE 31.10), and disapproval is expressed regarding the behaviour of “renegades” (a certain “Letter of the Seventeen” is mentioned).
The information sheet is signed by 57 people:
D. Akimov, R. Dzhemilev, A. Ablayev, Z. Fettayeva,
S. Memetov, E. Shabanov and others
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