support events commemorating the deportation. However, referring to security
considerations linked to the events in south-eastern Ukraine, the authorities in Crimea
issued on 16 May a decree prohibiting all mass events until 6 June. Eventually, the
“Council of Ministers” of Crimea decided on 17 May that the commemoration could go
ahead, although not in the centre of the capital of Crimea, Simferopol. The
commemorations passed without incidents, albeit with significant and sometimes
intimidating police presence.
325. On 29 May, the State archive of the SBU handed over the documents on Crimean Tatar
deportation from Crimea in 1944 to the representatives of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis. The
head of the SBU, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, and the former head of the Crimean Tatar
Mejlis, Mustafa Dzhemilev, participated in this event.
326. On 4 June, the Crimean Parliament adopted a Decree providing for social guarantees to the
people who were deported on an ethnic basis in 1941-1944 from the Crimean Autonomous
Socialist Soviet Republic. The Decree will provide social benefits in the form of one-time
payments to the Crimean Tatars, Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks and Germans, along with
their families and children who were born in exile. This document was adopted pursuant to
a Decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 21 April 2014, rehabilitating
formerly deported people from Crimea.
V.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
327. During the reporting period, the HRMMU identified acute human rights concerns
particularly in the eastern regions, Crimea and in the aftermath of the Odesa 2 May
violence. They are symptomatic of the particular local contexts, not least involving the
presence of armed groups, the breakdown in law and order and on-going security
operations. As highlighted in the report issued on 15 April 2014 by OHCHR, short-term
human rights concerns should be addressed within the broader and longer term framework
that will see institutional reform and enable change that will impact on the enjoyment of all
rights – civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. The root causes of the current crisis
were initially due to the systematic and structural curtailment of human rights and
widespread corruption. The way out of the current crisis, to ensure reconciliation of
communities through peaceful and democratic means, will be through the accountability for
violations and the full respect and guarantee of all human rights for all.
328. With the election of President Poroshenko, there is the opportunity for the Government of
Ukraine to prioritise addressing these systemic and structural concerns through institutional
reform focusing on human rights challenges in the short-term, and progressively paving the
way for the establishment of a system that promotes and protects human rights for all,
ensures justice, good governance and the rule of law through inclusive, non-discriminatory
and participatory means. A comprehensive national human rights action plan reflecting all
recommendations from the international and regional mechanisms is highly recommended,
as well as the creation by the Government of a senior level coordination mechanism of
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