an indigenous people of Crimea, while electoral reforms allocated 14 seats in the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea to the Crimean Tatars. At the same time as these reforms, however, the government took a stand against squatting, including introducing criminal liability. Following the 1992 clashes, repatriation to Crimea ebbed, and though squatting continued by Crimean Tatars, they were gradually outpaced by Slavs living in Crimea. By April 2006, there were 658 squatting sites settled by Slavs compared to 237 by Crimean Tatars. 2006–2014 Two days following the 2006 Crimean parliamentary election, Crimean Tatars once again began returning to Crimea in significant numbers. This time, the settlements doubled as a form of protest. By 5 April 2006, six tent villages had been established in and around Simferopol. The largest of the encampments was established at a former artillery depot owned by the Ministry of Defence, and Dzhemilev requested negotiations with Viktor Shevchenko, head of the Crimean militsiya, and Anatoliy Hrytsenko, Minister of Defence, for the transfer of the site to Crimean Tatars. On 1 November 2007, Crimean Tatar squatters and representatives of the Olvy-Krym corporation clashed violently in Simferopol. Five days later, Anatolii Mohyliov ordered the destruction of an illegal village on Ay Petri yayla. After the destruction of the village, Dzhemilev called for Mohyliov's resignation. Under the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko, further attention was paid to Crimean Tatar land issues. Dzhemilev claimed in 2010 that over a dozen commissions were established to investigate problems regarding squatting over the course of the previous six to seven years, but that they failed to reach a resolution due to the fact that "very interesting names of the highest echelons of power in both Crimea and Kyiv were revealed." At this time, Dzhemilev also claimed that Crimean Tatars were being used as a scapegoat for those illegally settling inhabited areas, stating that Crimean Tatars primarily squatted on unowned lands while Ukrainian oligarchs illegally took control of land. Following Yushchenko's presidency, the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych became President of Ukraine. Yanukovych, who had fought for more stringent fines and prison time against squatters as Prime Minister, centred his concerns on Crimean Tatars for squatting in a 2010 speech. Yanukovych repeated his opposition to squatting in 2013. However, despite these statements, Yanukovych and his associates illegally participated in squatting. One of the most significant cases was the "Second Mezhyhirya", to be constructed at the southern Sarych cape in