Paul
Goble
Staunton, June 11 – Last week, the Tatar
government in exile issued an appeal to the Free Russia Forum meeting in Lithuania
for recognition and support of their aspirations (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/06/idel-ural-movement-seeks-backing-of.html). The meeting passed over their appeal in silence.
That
has prompted the Tatar government in exile to issue the following statement
expressing its surprise and regret at this non-action by those who advertise
themselves as liberals committed to rights and freedoms of individuals and
groups (facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2110688949224550&id=2090818191211626):
“Many peoples in an heroic struggle have
won freedom for themselves and not allowed their country to be transformed in
the periphery of the Kremlin dictatorship. The peoples enslaved by Russia
continue the struggle for their freedom from the Kremlin yoke. The peoples of
Idel-Ural, the Caucasus, Siberia and other regions of Eurasia demand from
Russia the end of this occupation.
“The representatives of the Tatar
political emigration turned to the participants of the seventh Forum with a
call to recognize the independence of the republics of the Urals. But there was
only silence … That reaction cannot elicit anything except surprise.
“This fact shows the indifference of the representatives
of the Russian opposition to the defense of the rights of the peoples of Idel-Ual
and other colonized nations enslaved by the Kremlin regime, and it is regrettable
that they missed their historic chance. Such a position is both immoral and
politically without prospects: It is impossible to achieve freedom for one’s
own people by denying the right of other peoples to freedom of their own.”
This declaration was signed by Rafis
Kashapov and Nafis Kashapov, two deputy prime ministers of the Tatarstan government
in exile, and Rosa Kurban, a scholar who lives in Ankara and works closely with
that organization.
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