PART 3 THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM Given that the civil society in Crimea actively opposed the occupation, the self-proclaimed Crimean author- ities began an all-out oT ensive on its representatives. The victims of such activities fell the members of peace- ful demonstrations for the unity of Ukraine, Ukrainian military, the lead- ers of local Euromaidans, journalists, social activists, the Crimean Tatars. To this end, the entire arsenal of repres- sive measures was used, deploying both legal mechanisms, such as ille- gal detentions, launching fabricated administrative and criminal charges, denial of re-registration, discrimi- nation on the grounds of political opinion or other illegal grounds, il- legal alienation of private property, and using extralegal means, such as threats, destruction of property, beatings, forced disappearances, tor- tures, and murders. In all these actions, a clear political 5 motive can be traced , that is, the real grounds for the actions or omissions of public bodies, unacceptable in a dem- ocratic society and aimed at achieving the following objectives: a) consolida- tion and retention of the power of the occupying authorities in Crimea; b) in- voluntary discontinuation of public ac- tivities by civil society representatives having a point of view that diT ers from that of the authorities. Pictured: A leafl et distributed in the entrance All these crimes are part of a large- halls of residential houses in scale systemic repression of the Simferopol non-combat civilians. The large scale 5 http://www.khpg.org/index.php?id=1384001187 38