PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA Despite the sad historical experience, the Russian Federation authorities, immedi- ately after the occupation of the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol have also begun to implement a policy aimed at populating the occupied territory with its ‘colonists’. This signiR cantly contributes to the change in the demographic situation in the occupied territory; as a result, the local population is displaced and replaced by the citizens of the occupying state. Article 85 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention of August 12, 1949, relating to the protection of victims of the international armed conU icts (Protocol I) recognizes the displacement of part of state’s population to the oc- cupied territory as a war crime13. According to Article 8 (2)(b)(xviii) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court this crime is subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. The statistics show that over one and a half years of occupation, in Crimea and Sev- astopol there have been signiR cant demographic changes. Moreover, the statistical data are based on the o7 cial data on residence registration by the Federal Migra- 14. That is, the RF authorities consciously allow and encourage the settle- tion Service ment of Russian citizens onto the occupied territory. The relocation of the Russian citizens is most obvious in Sevastopol. As of March 1, 15 2014, the population of Sevastopol was 386,168 people . By January 1, 2015, the 16 city’s population increased by 12,805 people and amounted to 398,973 people . The witnesses, based on their own experience prior to the occupation, reported a signiR cant growth in the number of population. There are also arguments based on 17 indirect methods of calculation . The data on the number of voters in the election of members of the State Coun- cil of the RC (hereinafter SC RC) of the first convocation and the members of the Sevastopol City Legislative Assembly of the first convocation held on Sep- tember 14, 2014, and in the so-called “referendum” held on March 16, 2014, un- der full Russian control also indicate an increase in the number of population and reflect higher numbers of relocation of the Russian citizens to the occupied territories. Thus, according to o7 cial data, the number of registered voters during the elec- tions of deputies to the LA of Sevastopol of the R rst convocation on 14.09.2014 13 https://www.icrc.org/rus/assets/R les/2013/ap_i_rus.pdf. 14 See methodological explanations: http://crimea.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/crimea/ru/statistics/population/ 15 http://31.28.228.102:82/statist_info/demograR a/chislo_naselenia/2014/ludi_0214.pdf 16 http://sevastopol.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/sevastopol/ru/statistics/population/ http://goo.gl/rBvm4A 17 http://www.c-inform.info/news/id/33955 92