The Canadian Museum of Human Rights has confirmed the inclusion of Mustafa Dzhemilev in their upcoming exhibition programming. This decision follows our formal submission and the subsequent briefings provided to the museum board. I will monitor the curation process to ensure this commitment is fully reflected in the gallery space.
July 27, 2020
Final supporters
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights provides a unique opportunity for visitors to explore the value of freedom and justice throughout history. It is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers dedicated in bringing to light important elements about the individuals that have impacted the course of history in the sphere of human relations.
I am an international student enrolled at the University of Winnipeg. As a frequent visitor to the CMHR, I have benefited from each visit by discovering new information that has deepened my appreciation of the people and events that have shaped the journey of diverse nations.
As a citizen of Ukraine, I have appreciated the CMHR’s presention of the Holodomor, a very black element of Ukrainian history. Similarly, I understand that the history of the liberation of our nation includes many great heroes that are deserving of being highlighted in the Museum’s expositions.
One person that I believe is worthy of the CMHR’s attention in this regard is Mustafa Dzhemilev. Dzhemilev is a leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement who first emerged as a dissident during Soviet times. The Crimean Tartars have a long history as an indigenous people that occupied the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine going back 750 years. Dzhemilev’s life and long heroic struggle for freedom of Crimean Tatars, started when he was a child and lasts till today. He was arrested multiple times for standing up against the Soviet oppressive government that was determined to destroy the national identity of the Crimean Tatars and their right to live in their Crimean homeland. Dzhemilev’s was imprisoned 7 times and spent a total of 15 years in prison and Soviet labor camps. In 1975, he led a hunger strike protest that lasted 303 days. During this protest, Dzhemilev’s mother and brother were actively trying to convince him to stop the hunger strike. Other very prominent individuals supported Dzhemilev’s family including Soviet dissidents Petro Grigorenko, Andrei Sakharov, German writers – Nobel laureate Heinrich Theodor Böll and Carl Amery, French writers – Raymond Aron and Pierre Bachelet. It got to the point that the brother brought Dzhemilev a letter from Andrei Sakharov and Petro Grigorenko begging him to end the hunger strike, “because your death will only make our enemies happy.” Dzhemilev’s leadership brought the attention of the world to the problems of human rights in Soviet Union and specifically the cruelty against the Crimean Tatar people.
In 2014, the Russian Federation forcibly occupied Crimea and launched a hot war in eastern Ukraine as part of Putin’s strategy to rebuild the former empire of the Soviet Union. Today Dzhemilev is continuing his fight against the Russian government in his bid to preserve the rights of the Crimean Tartars, which has the total support of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv in this struggle of national identity.
Mustafa Dzhemilev is an iconic figure in the history of Ukraine. For his unending and peaceful fight for the freedom, justice and the right of his people to live freely in Crimea as part of a sovereign Ukraine he deserves a place on the same shelve of history next to Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi.
Adding Mustafa Dzhemilev to the exposition of Canadian Museum of Human Rights, would be a great honor for Ukraine and all of the people of Crimea. It would be an appropriate way to shine a light on the destructive activities during today’s hybrid war and illegal occupation of eastern Ukraine and Crimea by the Putin regime.
Updates
July 17, 2020
I have finalized the formal proposal document outlining the historical significance of Mustafa Dzhemilev for the museum archives. This packet is now under review by the curatorial office who will evaluate the potential for future exhibition inclusion.
July 17, 2020
The increase in support has moved this proposal into a position to request a formal meeting with the museum leadership. I am currently drafting a letter that outlines the case for including Mustafa Dzhemilev in the permanent collection. My next step is to coordinate with the museum office to ensure this arrives at the appropriate desk.
Reached 100 supporters
July 17, 2020
49 Comments
Mustafa Dzhemilev is an iconic figure in the history of Ukraine. For his ceaseless nonviolent fight for freedom and justice in Crimea as part of a sovereign Ukraine, he deserves a place on the same shelves of history as Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi. Adding Mustafa Dzhemilev to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, would be a great honor for Ukraine and all of the people of Crimea. It would be an appropriate way to shine a light on the destructive activities during today’s hybrid war and illegal occupation of eastern Ukraine and Crimea by the Putin regime.
Mustafa Dzhemilev's continuous struggle for human rights against Russian aggression and the illegal occupation of Crimea should be supported and exposed at the CMHR.
Mustafa Dzhemiliev is an example of a life-long dedicated and sacrificial serving to the human rights causes, of resistance to the Soviet regime and now Putin's dictatorship that occupied Dzhemiliev's native Crimea. He is a prominent spokesperson for the rights of minorities. Featuring his story at CHRM will also highlight the plight of the Crimean Tatar people who were deported by Stalin in 1944 and shortly upon return to Crimean, are prosecuted in their homeland by Putin for peaceful resistance to the Russian occupation.
I'm honored to live in one country with Mustafa Jemilev. I can't imagine the history of human rights in Crimea, in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union without him.
For his unending and peaceful fight for the freedom, justice and the right of his people to live freely in Crimea as part of a sovereign Ukraine he deserves a place on the same shelve of history next to Nelson Mandela
Mustafa Jemilev deserves to be recognized as a leader in promoting the plight of the Crimean Tartars oppressed by the Russians since they have occupied Crimea.
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The Canadian Museum of Human Rights has confirmed the inclusion of Mustafa Dzhemilev in their upcoming exhibition programming. This decision follows our formal submission and the subsequent briefings provided to the museum board. I will monitor the curation process to ensure this commitment is fully reflected in the gallery space.
July 27, 2020
Final supporters
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights provides a unique opportunity for visitors to explore the value of freedom and justice throughout history. It is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers dedicated in bringing to light important elements about the individuals that have impacted the course of history in the sphere of human relations.
I am an international student enrolled at the University of Winnipeg. As a frequent visitor to the CMHR, I have benefited from each visit by discovering new information that has deepened my appreciation of the people and events that have shaped the journey of diverse nations.
As a citizen of Ukraine, I have appreciated the CMHR’s presention of the Holodomor, a very black element of Ukrainian history. Similarly, I understand that the history of the liberation of our nation includes many great heroes that are deserving of being highlighted in the Museum’s expositions.
One person that I believe is worthy of the CMHR’s attention in this regard is Mustafa Dzhemilev. Dzhemilev is a leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement who first emerged as a dissident during Soviet times. The Crimean Tartars have a long history as an indigenous people that occupied the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine going back 750 years. Dzhemilev’s life and long heroic struggle for freedom of Crimean Tatars, started when he was a child and lasts till today. He was arrested multiple times for standing up against the Soviet oppressive government that was determined to destroy the national identity of the Crimean Tatars and their right to live in their Crimean homeland. Dzhemilev’s was imprisoned 7 times and spent a total of 15 years in prison and Soviet labor camps. In 1975, he led a hunger strike protest that lasted 303 days. During this protest, Dzhemilev’s mother and brother were actively trying to convince him to stop the hunger strike. Other very prominent individuals supported Dzhemilev’s family including Soviet dissidents Petro Grigorenko, Andrei Sakharov, German writers – Nobel laureate Heinrich Theodor Böll and Carl Amery, French writers – Raymond Aron and Pierre Bachelet. It got to the point that the brother brought Dzhemilev a letter from Andrei Sakharov and Petro Grigorenko begging him to end the hunger strike, “because your death will only make our enemies happy.” Dzhemilev’s leadership brought the attention of the world to the problems of human rights in Soviet Union and specifically the cruelty against the Crimean Tatar people.
In 2014, the Russian Federation forcibly occupied Crimea and launched a hot war in eastern Ukraine as part of Putin’s strategy to rebuild the former empire of the Soviet Union. Today Dzhemilev is continuing his fight against the Russian government in his bid to preserve the rights of the Crimean Tartars, which has the total support of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv in this struggle of national identity.
Mustafa Dzhemilev is an iconic figure in the history of Ukraine. For his unending and peaceful fight for the freedom, justice and the right of his people to live freely in Crimea as part of a sovereign Ukraine he deserves a place on the same shelve of history next to Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi.
Adding Mustafa Dzhemilev to the exposition of Canadian Museum of Human Rights, would be a great honor for Ukraine and all of the people of Crimea. It would be an appropriate way to shine a light on the destructive activities during today’s hybrid war and illegal occupation of eastern Ukraine and Crimea by the Putin regime.
Updates
July 17, 2020
I have finalized the formal proposal document outlining the historical significance of Mustafa Dzhemilev for the museum archives. This packet is now under review by the curatorial office who will evaluate the potential for future exhibition inclusion.
July 17, 2020
The increase in support has moved this proposal into a position to request a formal meeting with the museum leadership. I am currently drafting a letter that outlines the case for including Mustafa Dzhemilev in the permanent collection. My next step is to coordinate with the museum office to ensure this arrives at the appropriate desk.
Reached 100 supporters
July 17, 2020
49 Comments
Mustafa Dzhemilev is a symbol of the peaceful struggle of the Crimean Tatar people against first Soviet and now Russian oppression. He is as much of an icon of the human rights movement in Eastern Europe as Andrei Sakharov Vaclav Havel and other dissidents were in their day, and deserves to be represented in the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
Mustafa Dzhemilev is an iconic figure in the history of Ukraine. For his ceaseless nonviolent fight for freedom and justice in Crimea as part of a sovereign Ukraine, he deserves a place on the same shelves of history as Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi. Adding Mustafa Dzhemilev to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, would be a great honor for Ukraine and all of the people of Crimea. It would be an appropriate way to shine a light on the destructive activities during today’s hybrid war and illegal occupation of eastern Ukraine and Crimea by the Putin regime.
Mustafa Dzhemilev's continuous struggle for human rights against Russian aggression and the illegal occupation of Crimea should be supported and exposed at the CMHR.
Mustafa Dzhemiliev is an example of a life-long dedicated and sacrificial serving to the human rights causes, of resistance to the Soviet regime and now Putin's dictatorship that occupied Dzhemiliev's native Crimea. He is a prominent spokesperson for the rights of minorities. Featuring his story at CHRM will also highlight the plight of the Crimean Tatar people who were deported by Stalin in 1944 and shortly upon return to Crimean, are prosecuted in their homeland by Putin for peaceful resistance to the Russian occupation.
I'm honored to live in one country with Mustafa Jemilev. I can't imagine the history of human rights in Crimea, in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union without him.
For his unending and peaceful fight for the freedom, justice and the right of his people to live freely in Crimea as part of a sovereign Ukraine he deserves a place on the same shelve of history next to Nelson Mandela
Mustafa Jemilev deserves to be recognized as a leader in promoting the plight of the Crimean Tartars oppressed by the Russians since they have occupied Crimea.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev is a symbol of the peaceful struggle of the Crimean Tatar people against first Soviet and now Russian oppression. He is as much of an icon of the human rights movement in Eastern Europe as Andrei Sakharov Vaclav Havel and other dissidents were in their day, and deserves to be represented in the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.