A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE CRIMEANTATAR DEPORTATION OF 1944
Journal: ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
Year: 2015

Over the past decade, Crimean Tatars started to express morerobustly their requests for the international recognition of the 1944 MassDeportation as the crime of genocide. While it can be said, even primafacie, that the 1944 Deportation falls under the scope of the currentdefinition of crimes against humanity, making a similar kind of claimwith the same immediateness is unlikely in terms of the crime of genocideowing to the narrowly constructed legal definition. Moreover, theprinciple of non-ret