Deportation
70 years ago today: 13-14 June 1941, 300,000 were deported from Bessarabia
June 15, 2011Deportations of people from historic Moldova were first put in practice under czarist rule. Under Soviet rule, several waves of deportations of Moldova's native population were carried out: the first one just months before the outbreak of World War II...
A journey from the evil empire to the land of the free
March 21, 2011Text of the speech made by Vlad Spânu, President of the Moldova Foundation, at the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (University of Virginia in Charlottesville), as it was delivered on March 18, 2011 (for Romanian translation, click here...
90,000 Crimean Tatars remain in Exile on 66th anniversary of their deportation by Stalin
May 19, 2010By Paul Goble Today, Crimean Tatars and their friends and supporters marked the 66th anniversary of Stalin’s brutal deportation of that nationality on completely false charges that the Crimean Tatars had collaborated with the Germans, a deportation...
Crimean Tatars expose Russian sensitivity to its Soviet past
June 24, 2009By Taras Kuzio President Viktor Yushchenko has strongly condemned the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars on many occasions and ordered the Security Service (SBU) to open a special investigative unit examining crimes against humanity committed by the...
Nazi guard flees U.S. for Germany
November 14, 2007An Atlanta man left the United States to avoid deportation on allegations he guarded Nazi concentration camps with attack dogs during World War II. Paul Henss, 85, left the United States for his native Germany nearly a week before a scheduled deportation...
U.S. judge nixes terror deportation
October 10, 2007A Tunisian terror suspect being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot be sent home, a U.S. federal judge ruled. Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Mohammed Rahman cannot be...