Mustafa Dzhemilev
Mustafa Abduldschemil Dschemilew ( Crimean Tatar Mustafa oglu Abdülcemil Cemilev ( Qırımoğlu ); Ukrainian Мустафа Джемілєв; Russian Мустафа Абдулджемиль Джемилев; born November 13, 1943 in Mischritschtschja ( Crimean Tatar Ay Serez ) in Sudak in the Crimea ) is a Ukrainian politician and chairman of the National Assembly of Crimean Tatars Qırımtatar Milliy Meclisi. He was 1943-1991 Soviet citizen and human rights. Since 1989 he has been chairman of the National Movement of Crimean Tatars in Crimea since 1998 and deputy in the Ukrainian parliament.
Mustafa Abduldschemil Dschemilew was born in 1943 in the south- eastern part of the Crimea. During the German occupation of the peninsula in May 1944, Soviet troops drove the entire Crimean Tatar population of the Crimea (about 250 000 people ) together and deported them to the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia. The men were deported directly from the front into exile.
His childhood was spent Dschemilew in a village in the Oblast Andijan in Uzbekistan. 1955 the family moved to the vicinity of Tashkent. 1959 Dschemilew was denied enrollment at the University of Tashkent, as the Crimean Tatars were considered the Soviet Union unfaithful people, and they were prohibited from visiting colleges. Dschemilew then started a factory job. 1961 joined Dschemilew the underground organization "Union of Crimean Tatars Youth " and became one of the most active dissidents of the Soviet Union and leader of the only permanent mass movement in the history of the Soviet Union.
In 1966 he was sentenced to 18 months in prison because he refused to swear the military service in the Red Army. In prison, he was the anti -Soviet propaganda blamed and went for the first time in the hunger strike. After his release from prison, he made contact with other dissidents throughout the Soviet Union. In 1969 he founded, together with Andrei Sakharov and others, the " Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the Soviet Union." In the same year he was arrested along with Soviet General Pyotr Grigorenko and brought to Tashkent. Mustafa Dschemile was sentenced to three years in prison, landed Grigorenko for five years in a mental institution.
From 1972 to 1974 he lived under constant observation KGB in Uzbekistan, where he had worked on a collective farm. In 1974 he was arrested again and sentenced to one year of forced labor in the labor camp because he tried the U.S. President Nixon to hand over a petition to the interests of the Crimean Tatars. Because he distributed in the labor camp allegedly anti- Soviet propaganda among the prisoners, he was transferred to a prison. Here he entered the longest hunger strike of all Soviet dissidents - 303 days. The authorities took no attention and sentenced him in a retrial in Omsk at 2.5 years of heavy labor.
In April 1976 Dschemilew was sent back because of resistance activities in a labor camp and later deported to Tashkent, where he lived under KGB observation. In early 1979 he was arrested again and sentenced to five and a half years in prison. In November 1983 he was arrested for the sixth time and sentenced to 3 years prison camp in Magadan region. Similar to the previous method, he was accused of defaming the internal and external policy of the Soviet state and to agitate against the state. The situation was the emitted with Sakharov and other intellectuals statement condemning the invasion of Afghanistan to the gained great visibility.
Even in exile Dschemilew in 1987 elected to the "Central initiative group of Crimean Tatars ". Two years later he moved with his family to Bakhchisaray, Crimea, and initiated a movement called "Milli Hareket ", which meant that about 280,000 Crimean Tatars have returned to their homeland. The Crimean Tatars convened in 1991 a National Assembly Meclis one chose him as its first chairman.
For his commitment to the return of Crimean Tatars by Stalin zwangsdeportierten he was named " Qırımoğlu " ( son of the Crimea).
Mustafa Abduldschemil Dschemilew was awarded in October 1998 with the Nansen Refugee Award of the United Nations. To be more peaceful for the rights of the Crimean Tatars were appreciated. He is the father of three children; he lives in Bakhchisaray.
From 1998 to 2007 was Dschemilew deputy in the Ukrainian parliament.