KYIV, Ukraine — The plight of a Muslim minority in Russian-occupied Crimea is highlighting a crackdown in a region that President Vladimir Putin has tried to present as an example of the Kremlin’s right to Ukrainian territory.
The Crimean Tatars consider the peninsula their historic homeland having ruled it from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and made up 12 percent of the area’s population of 2 million before Moscow illegally annexed it nine years ago. The area is considered occupied under international law.
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