What the Western Media Won’t Tell You: Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians Also Voted to Join Russia | Global Research

What the Western Media Won’t Tell You: Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians Also Voted to Join Russia | Global Research

Media reports acknowledge that 83.1 percent of eligible Crimean voters cast their ballot in the March 16th referendum.

The final tally of the vote was 96.77 percent in favor of joining the Russian Federation, and 2.51 percent against.

The Western media has
underscored that both the Crimean Tatars as well as the Ukrainian
population of Crimea were against joining the Russian Federation. The
Non-Russian population constitutes 41.7 percent of the Crimean
population.

According to official data, Russians constitute 58.32% of the
population of Crimea, 24.32% are Ukrainians and 12.10% are Crimean
Tatars.

The Guardian, in a
slither of media disinformation intimated that the Tatars feared a wave
of repression if Crimea were to join the Russian Federation:

Now, as Crimea faces a referendum that is likely to seal
its fate as a province or satellite of Russia, ethnic tensions are
reaching boiling point. In a chilling echo of history, Tatar houses in
the Crimean city of Bakhchisarai have been marked with an ominous X,
just as they were before the Soviet-era deportations. On Monday two
Tatar businesses were firebombed.