Nope, you're the first human in history who has thought of that.
Sarcasm aside, it's because India knows it'd lose in the referendum. The area is >60% Muslim, India has committed some horrible atrocities in the area, and there's just no way the majority of people there today would vote for India (decades ago, it would have been the opposite).
Hence, India will do anything it can for the referendum to just not happen.
SubuSS|6 years ago
Razengan|6 years ago
input_sh|6 years ago
Sarcasm aside, it's because India knows it'd lose in the referendum. The area is >60% Muslim, India has committed some horrible atrocities in the area, and there's just no way the majority of people there today would vote for India (decades ago, it would have been the opposite).
Hence, India will do anything it can for the referendum to just not happen.
pintxo|6 years ago
suprfsat|6 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum