Ukraine’s Jamala reacts on winning the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest final at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, May 15, 2016. Photo: AP
GENEVA: The UN human rights office says Ukrainian singer Jamala’s Eurovision victory “makes no difference on the ground” for Crimean Tatars, who have faced growing persecution since Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula in 2014.
But Rupert Colville of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says some Tatars like Jamala “might take some solace that their story is not forgotten.”
At a UN briefing Tuesday, Colville highlighted the May 18 anniversary of the deportation of …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
