SARY-SU, Crimea (AP) — Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently and at odd hours to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in this settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long suffered from discrimination in the peninsula that is its historic homeland.
[…] the community of Sary-Su “is trembling with fear,” said Rebiya Setarova, an 80-year-old Tatar as she tottered anxiously across a dirt road to check on her son and grandchildren ahead of Friday prayers.
Russia’s annexation in March, which many Tatars vocally opposed, overturned their world.
[…] the Tatars’ self-ruling body, …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
