THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM PART 3 purposes. But back then, there was a procedure, and today people just dis- appear. Let’s recall that Reshat Ametov went out with a Ukrainian < ag to protest against the so-called ‘referendum’ (on March 16). A video was post- ed to YouTube, where he is pushed into a car and his face can be seen. In his village, everyone knows who did it. But no one would tell anything, they say, ‘If I tell something to someone, it is quite obvious what will happen to 7 me next,” said the leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev . As of the beginning of 2016, at least 14 people have been reported missing, most of who were Crimean Tatars. During March 2015 – February 2016, at least R ve Crime- an Tatars went missing: Mukhtar Arislanov8 , Arlen Terekhov, Ernest Ablyazimov 9 Yasharovich, Ruslan Ganiev, Marsel Alyautdinov in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea. The missing Selimov Memet and Ibragimov Osman have been 10 found dead on August 29, 2015 . So far there is no information about the miss- ing in 2014 Ivan Bondarets, Valeriy Vashchuk, Vasily Chernysh, Leonid Korzh, Timur Shaimardanov, Seyran Zeynedinov, Islyam Dzheparov, Dzhevdet Islyamov, Eskend- er Apselyamov. The occupation authorities are using all possible administrative resources to organize repressions. The main instrument of extralegal harassment of civil society represent- atives is the so-called ‘Crimean Self-Defence’ paramilitary formation. It was organized in mid-February 2014 to violently disperse peaceful demonstrations and to take over 11 public buildings. On June 11, 2014, the occupation authorities passed a special law that put the so-called ‘Crimean self-defense’ under the direct control of the self-pro- claimed Crimean leader Sergey Aksyonov and the Council of Ministers of Crimea, and awarded this paramilitary criminal group with the status of the ‘people’s guard’. “In Crimea, the so-called self-defense forces can help “disappear”- either because of political views or beliefs”- said Sergey Orlov, the Chairman of 12 the human rights organization Memorial . There is a strong connection between the activities of this paramilitary criminal group and the law enforcement authorities. For instance, after the illegal detention on March 9, 2014 at the railway station of one of the leaders of the Crimean Euro- maidan Andrey Shchekun and a public activist Anatoly Kovalsky, the representa- tives of the so-called ‘Crimean self-defense’ took both of them to the nearest police station. At the police station, law enforcement o7 cials, without registering the de- 7 http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/26549246.html 8 http://investigator.org.ua/news/162796/ 9 http://ru.krymr.com/content/news/27555407.html 10 http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/08/29/7079469/ 11 http://jankoy.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Zakon-O-narodnom-opolchenii-Kryma.pdf 12 http://www.inopressa.ru/article/17mar2015/dailybeast/crimea2.html 41