Nationality Crimean Tatar Died 15 March 2014 | Spouse(s) Zarina Amet (Ametova) | |
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Born January 24, 1975 ( 1975-01-24 ) Resting place Simferopol Abdalı Muslim Cemetery Children Ali (son)Hatiğe (daughter)Húsniye (daughter) | ||
Reşat Amet (largely known by his official Ukrainized name: Reshat Medatovych Ametov, also transliterated in Ukrainian as: Решат Медатович Аметов , also anglicized as: Reshat Ametov) (24 January 1975 – 15 March 2014) was a Crimean Tatar activist for ethnic Tatar causes and a Crimean Tatar hero.
Biography
On 3 March 2014 Reşat initiated a solitary and peaceful protest against the occupation of Crimea by the Russian troops. During his protest in front of the Crimean Council of Ministers building in Simferopol's Lenin Square, he was abducted by three unidentified men in military uniform from the "Crimean self-defense" detachments who took him away.
On 15 March 2014 Reşat's body was found by police in a forest near the village of Zemlyanychne in Bilohirsk district about 60 kilometers east of the Crimean capital. The body was bearing marks of violence and torture, with his head bound with duct-tape and his legs shackled. A pair of handcuffs was laying near his body. According to his brother Refat Amet (Ametov), the cause of death was a stab wound resulting from a knife or a similar pointed object penetrating the eye. Reşat's murder remains unsolved.
Reşat was buried on 18 March 2014 at the Abdalı Muslim Cemetery of Simferopol. He left behind his young wife, Zarina, and three orphaned children.