What the Western Media Won’t Tell You: Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians Also Voted to Join Russia
"On the 16th of March We Choose" neo-Nazi Ukraine "Or" Russia
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“On the 16th of March We Choose”: neo-Nazi Ukraine “Or” Russia?
Media
reports acknowledge that 83.1
percent of eligible Crimean voters cast their ballot in the March 16th
referendum.
The
final tally of the vote was 96.77 percent in favor of joining the Russian
Federation, and 2.51 percent against.
The Western media has underscored that
both the Crimean Tatars as well as the Ukrainian population of Crimea were
against joining the Russian Federation. The Non-Russian population constitutes
41.7 percent of the Crimean population.
According
to official data, Russians constitute 58.32% of the population of Crimea, 24.32%
are Ukrainians and 12.10% are Crimean Tatars.
The Guardian, in a slither of media
disinformation intimated that the Tatars feared a wave of repression if Crimea
were to join the Russian Federation:
Now, as Crimea faces a referendum that is likely to seal its fate as a province or satellite of Russia, ethnic tensions are reaching boiling point. In a chilling echo of history, Tatar houses in the Crimean city of Bakhchisarai have been marked with an ominous X, just as they were before the Soviet-era deportations. On Monday two Tatar businesses were firebombed.
…. The prospect of a return to living under Moscow’s rule is disturbing. “People are in panic. “We are trying to keep people calm but they are scared of the Russian soldiers and Cossacks that come here,” he said.” (Crimea’s Tatars fear the worst as it prepares for referendum | World news | theguardian.com
Contrary to the reports of 135
international observers from 23 countries, the Western media in chorus has
suggested without a shred of evidence that the elections were rigged and that
Crimea was under Russian military occupation.
The
observer mission reports which include members of theEuropean Parliament have
been casually ignored by the mainstream Western media:
Mateus
Piskorkski, the leader of the European observers’ mission and Polish
MP: “Our
observers have not registered any violations of voting rules.”
Ewald
Stadler, member of the
European Parliament, dispelled the “referendum
at gunpoint” myth: “I
haven’t seen anything even resembling pressure… People
themselves want to have their say.”
Pavel
Chernev: Bulgarian member of parliament: “Organization
and procedures are 100 percent in line with the European standards,” he
added.
A
woman is reflected in a mirror as she casts her ballot during voting in a
referendum at a polling station in Simferopol March 16, 2014.(Reuters / Thomas
Peter)
Johann
Gudenus, member of the
Vienna Municipal Council: “Our
opinion is – if people want to decide their future, they should have the right
to do that and the international community should respect that. There is a goal
of people in Crimea to vote about their own future. Of course, Kiev is not happy
about that, but still they have to accept and to respect the vote of people in
Crimea”.
Serbian
observer Milenko Baborats “People
freely expressed their will in the most democratic way, wherever we were… During
the day we didn’t see a single serious violation of legitimacy of the
process,”
Srdja
Trifkovic, prominent and observer from
Serbia: “The presence of troops on the streets is virtually non-existent and the
only thing resembling any such thing is the unarmed middle-aged Cossacks who are
positioned outside the parliament building in Simferopol. But if you look at the
people both at the voting stations and in the streets, like on Yalta’s sea front
yesterday afternoon, frankly I think you would feel more tense in south Chicago
or in New York’s Harlem than anywhere round here,” he
said. (For more details see Crimean
‘Referendum at Gunpoint’ is a Myth – International Observers By , March 17, 2014)
Yet
according to Time Magazine, without acknowledging the reports of the
international observers, the ballot had to have been
rigged and the vote was held
under the gun of the Russian military:
“95 percent voted in favor of becoming a part of Russia. That may seem like an impossible result, the mark of a rigged election. And in some ways it was. The vote was held during a Russian military occupation of Crimeaand the ballot did not offer voters the option of keeping their current status in Ukraine. ( Time, March 17, 2014)
In
chorus, Western media reports have stated that both Ukrainians and Tatars were
firmly against seceding from Ukraine. They also intimated that the Tatar
community had decided not to vote.
According
to the Washington Post, “a vote in favor of seceding” was inevitable because
“ethnic Russians make up 60 percent of Crimea’s population”. But
the result was not 60 percent in favor, it was 97 percent in favor, indicating
that all major ethnic groups in the Crimea voted in favor of seceding from
Ukraine.
The figures do not add up: The Russians constitute 58
percent of Crimea’s population, yet 97 percent of the vote was in favor of
joining Russia. If Ukrainians and Tatars had refused to participate in the
referendum, voter participation would have been substantially less that
83.1.
The
referendum was also a vote against the US-EU sponsored Coup d’etat.
The
results confirm that the Tatars and Ukrainians who did cast their ballot, also
voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining Russia.
What
this 97 percent vote also indicates is a rejection of the illegal Neo-Nazi
government in Kiev. The Election poster (image above) reads:
16 марта мы выбираем или
“On
the 16 of March we choose”: neo-Nazi Ukraine “Or” the Russian Federation?
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