Struggle of Crimean Tartars

Over 60 years ago, at the close of World War II many of the Crimea's oldest inhabitants, the Crimean Tartars, were forced by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to abandon their homes and go into exile in Central Asia.

Now, many survivors of this ethnic cleansing have returned, but they have found a land much changed and a conflict over ownership of that land that threatens to ignite simmering tensions between Ukraine and its giant neighbour, Russia.