Crimean Tatars in the Political Game against Russia
… by Vladimir Odintsov, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
Crimean ladies in traditional garb
[ Editor’s note: The Crimean Tatars have been ignored by the Western Press primarily as not being good audience draws due to their unfamiliarity. But as you will read below, it is not only your usual, complex, age-old, ethnic dispute going back to pre-WWII days that is the big issue.
The Tatars have also been destabilization pawns in Ziggy Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard in which the US has been an avid player.
The short story is the usual one, exploiting past ethnic tensions, plus the Muslim extremism which has been a key part of the US destabilization efforts against the Russians.
We American defenders of freedom and democracy are now one of the biggest users of terrorism in geopolitical asymmetric warfare. And we have the Democratic Party with their Nobel Peace Prize leader with his Amazon “take no prisoner” ladies leading the way. Ah, the irony there.
Americans not only had their country hijacked, but were suckered as part of the process into thinking it was a Left versus Right combat. That is true on a lot of partisan politics and social issues, but in terms of our military aggression on the world, one could easily suspect that the NecCons were still running that show, if you subtract out their wanting to bomb Iran.
There has been no real public debate on our offensive strategy, just a hint that we are pursuing “financial interests”. It is a double shame, starting with the strategy not obtaining a public consensus to support it; and then the public, including the battered veteran community, has not challenged our political leadership directly on it, thinking that their elected Congressmen were minding the store for them… a fantasy.
The public has to abandon their fools paradise and accept the hard realities of what it is going to take to even have a chance at regaining control of their government.
The divide and conquer game is in its latter stages, where a few particular issue buttons can be pressed and people are at each other throats, to the delight of their manipulators. How angry are people, really? We shall see… Jim W. Dean ]
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The Crimean Tatars have had a difficult history
– First published May 19, 2014 –
Tatars protest
Throughout centuries the Crimea was traditionally regarded by the Western and Turkish authorities as a key to dominance in the Black Sea basin, additionally it was an effective political instrument for fighting Russia – the chief regional rival. In this rivalry, the Crimean Tatars have traditionally been used to influence the situation in the region.
Over the last decade the self-proclaimed governing body of this ethnic entity in Crimea – the Majlis has been the tool for applying this influence. One should note that the Majlis was an illegal body in the Ukrainian political field.
After the adoption of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation, despite the decree issued by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, which implied the rehabilitation of the once-repressed people of Crimea, along with the decision of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea to restore the rights of the Crimean Tatars, the Majlis leadership, and especially Mustafa Dzhemilev, declared themselves the guardians of a “foothold of Ukraine ” in Crimea.
With the active support of certain Western countries and Turkey, the Majlis started to incite the local population to fight other ethnic entities.
As the threats went on, the council threaten the “occupiers” with holding a referendum on the self-determination of the Crimean Tatars, but at the same time the Majlis did not refuse to delegate its representatives to the executive bodies of the Republic of Crimea.
Over the last couple of years, Mustafa Dzhemilev subdued the Crimean Tatar muftis, ascribed himself to the leadership of the Majlis, and was fully committed to the implementation of the Pan-Turkism program, following Ankara’s policy of restoring neo-Ottoman greatness. Dzhemilev obeyed orders issued by the Western players to promote ethnic and religious differences in destabilizing the situation in the Crimea and in the whole post-Soviet space.
It is noteworthy that after his return from prison in the early 90s, where he had been serving time for anti-government agitation and propaganda, his political rivals (ethnic Tatars as well) started to die under mysterious circumstances.
Will the Tatars be used as Western pawns, and suffer for it?
Roland Kadiev — a famous scientist who devoted himself to serving the Crimean Tatar national movement unexpectedly passed away; Yuri Osmanov – one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatars , was brutally murdered in 1993; Norick Shiri – the leader of the youth organization of the Crimean Tatars “Birlik -Unity,” founder and publisher of the newspaper “Voice of the Youth,” was also killed in 2006.
Mustafa Dzhemilev has actively used his positions in the Majlis to promote the radical Islam in the Crimea, and above all the group Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by a number of states.
While being backed financially by Turkey and the West, he supported the creation of a Crimean Tatar bank “Imdat”, which started to fund and supply weapons to Salafi and Wahhabi militants. The money for the regular gatherings of militants of the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, that were disguised as demonstrations, were also provided by this bank.
Such meetings started to gather 2-3 thousand “soldiers of Islam” over time. The radicalization of the Crimean population was facilitated by the fact that Mustafa Dzhemilev controled all Crimean Tatar media and the Majlis website was supported by the National Republican Institute of the United States and the US intelligence instructors.
Because of this, a significant number of young people from this ethnic group were exposed to the ideas of Islamic Extremism, out of the influence of moderate imams and elders. No wonder that around 350 militants fighting the regular army in Syria turned out to be of Crimean origin.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev
Mustafa Dzhemilev was also behind the campaign of illegal seizure of land, according to the national land committee, and by his orders more than 40,000 hectares of land were occupied.
On top of all he had signed a secret deal with the Ukrainian political establishment which allowed him to obtain a deputy mandate from the parliament of Ukraine and a certain degree of covert control over the local financial flows.
This “mastermind”, along with his “associates”, created corruption schemes designed to scam international charitable funds that were contributing money for the improvement of living conditions of the Crimean Tatar population.
It’s only logical that under such conditions, a majority of Crimean Tatars who disagreed with the actions of Mustafa Dzhemilev forced him to leave the Majlis on November 14, 2011, along with his deputy Refat Chubarov. It is also logical that he started to seek “protection” from his people overseas, beginning with a trip to NATO headquarters in Brussels.
There’s little surprise that this corrupted “leader” and Wahhabi supporter managed to establish a regular schedule of meetings with leaders of NATO, former US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow, along with a number of other Western officials.
The reaction of the White House was also predictable. The US State Department must have been reading only the fabricated fakes of the mainstream media, since it didn’t hesitate to criticize the Russian position in the statement released on the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars, thus reaffirming its reputation as a fomenter of ethnic conflicts.
It seems that the White House authorities did not even bother to read the decisions that had already been made by Russian and Crimean authorities in order to rehabilitate the Crimean Tatars, as well as the results of a meeting Vladimir Putin held with the true representatives of the Crimean Tatar population on May 16.
One can’t help but feel sorry for the staff of the State Department, who seem unable to read news in Russian. But it seems that they can’t read in English as well — since the results of the meeting were discussed in detail in the Guardian. Or maybe they can’t read at all? And why bother with reading?
Indeed, the State Department would rather organize an international propaganda campaign to discredit the legitimate authorities of Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine in order to unleash military conflicts, in the wake of which they would, together with the offspring of Biden and the likes of him, plunge their teeth in the juicy hydrocarbons jackpot.
And one can only feel sorry for the Americans who are being fooled regularly by the White House media for the personal enrichment of the US establishment, and for the establishment that can’t get a grip on reading.
Vladimir Odintsov, political commentator, exclusively for the Internet magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
Jim W. Dean was an active editor on VT from 2010-2022. He was involved in operations, development, and writing, plus an active schedule of TV and radio interviews.
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