It is reported from the Crimea that at the beginning of 1976 there were about three hundred Crimean-Tatar families living there, without residence permits or employment. In spite of this, more families keep arriving.
The authorities are warning householders not to sell houses or rent flats to Crimean Tatars, threatening them with dismissal from work and other punishments if they disobey. Judicial and administrative measures are being taken against the Crimean Tatars who have already settled there.
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Ablyakim Anifiev and Mustafa Bodzheck, living in the village of Lgovka (Chelebi-Eli), were sentenced to 5 years’ banishment on 19 December 1975. Bektash Mamutov was sentenced to three years. The total number of people sentenced to banishment seems to be twenty to thirty.
In January 1976 the war-invalid and communist Seitmemet Umerov, living in Simferopol, was summoned to court. (The Chronicle does not know if a court hearing took place.)
In the village of Zemlyanichnoye, Police-Lieutenant V. Sinyagovsky sealed up the house of Khalil Khalilov in the absence of its owner. In the village of Kurskoye, the collective-farm management refused to allow Kerimova to establish lawful possession of her garden allotment. She was informed that “her family of five children is a burden on the collective farm”. In the village of Krasnogvardeisk three families had their electricity cut off.
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Since the mass appeal to the Regional Soviet executive committee and the forcible dispersal of the Crimean Tatars on 18 November 1975 (CCE 38.15), strengthened police detachments have been seen on duty outside the committee buildings on reception days.
During November and December 1975 about twenty Crimean Tatar families were given residence permits in the Crimea.
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