Thank you. I appreciate the co-operation.
To our witnesses, I'd like to put questions first on the situation in Crimea and then on the situation in occupied Donbass.
Crimean Tatars have had a tragic history ever since Imperial Russia first invaded Crimea two centuries ago, with a series of ethnic cleansings and an attempted genocide in 1944 by Stalin. What's particularly troubling the closure of Crimean Tatar language schools; the closure of mosques; FSB officers watching the mosques continuously; the removal of all the Crimean Tatar leadership; the banning of their organizations; the disappearances of many of the key leaders, some never found, and others found with clear signs of torture; and recently the historic sites of the Crimean Tatars being closed for renovations and people witnessing very important cultural sites being disassembled and artifacts disappearing.
Would you call these the beginning of an attempt at ethnocide of the Crimean Tatar population?