Ukraine’s permanent representative in Crimea, Tamila Tasheva, has pointed out that, when Kiev regains control over the peninsula, a «witch hunt» should be avoided and only those who facilitated and cooperated with the Russian occupation should be tried.
«After the disoccupation, it would be wrong to organize a witch hunt and punish people simply for surviving the occupation,» Tasheva said, according to the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN.
For Tasheva, businessmen as well as public and pro-Russian administration employees should stay out of the hypothetical trials and should not bear any criminal responsibility because, she says, they were just trying to survive.
«If a resident of the occupied peninsula did not contribute to the occupation, did not engage in propaganda and did not support the war and the like, he should not bear criminal responsibility for cooperating with the occupation administrations,» she added.
As the Ukrainian representative in Crimea confessed, one of the priority goals of Kiev is to prevent the population of the peninsula from being afraid of the return of the Ukrainian authorities from possible reprisals.
«We just want to liberate our people and our territories, and put an end to the terror that Russia brought there,» Tasheva has acknowledged, thus recalling the Russian occupation of Crimea during the first months of 2014.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
