Crimean singer Jamala to represent Ukraine at Eurovision

Her song "1944" about the mass deportation of #Crimean_Tatars under Stalin has received the highest scores both from the judges and a public vote on Sunday evening.

Jamala's song tells the story of the Soviet Red Army's deportation of nearly 250,000 Crimean Tatars in 1944.

"This song really is about my family, my grandmother. I had to write it. It is a memorial song and it is difficult for me to sing it," Jamala said in an earlier interview.

#Jamala, whose full name is Susana Dzhamaladinova, was born in Kyrgyzstan in 1983, where her family settled after her grandparents were deported under Stalin.