Who Will Protect the Crimean Tatars? : The New Yorker

Who Will Protect the Crimean Tatars? : The New Yorker: “We are already seeing signs that they are trying to intimidate us, to split us, to stir trouble,” Baiibov said. “Ukrainians are also vulnerable, but at least they have Ukraine to go to. Where will we go? Crimea is our only home.” After the regional parliament voted to merge Crimea into Russia on Thursday, the chairman of the Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, released a statement to the press, calling for the United Nations to “immediately consider” sending a contingent of international peacekeepers into Crimea, “in order to de�scalate the military conflict … which can lead to mass casualties among the entire civilian population of the peninsula.”