posted by eagle on February 26, 2009 6:15 AM as Genocide Crime
Russia: Famine that killed millions not genocide
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By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer Steve Gutterman, Associated Press Writer – February, 25, 2009
AP – The head of the Russian Federal State Archives agency Vladimir Kozlov holds up a book entitled, 'Famine …
MOSCOW – Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s amounted to genocide.
Russian archivists and historians pressed the Kremlin's case that the Stalin-era famine — which killed millions of people — was a common tragedy across Soviet farmlands, countering efforts by Ukraine's pro-Western president to convince the world that Ukrainians were targeted for starvation.
"Not a single document exists that even indirectly shows that the strategy and tactics chosen for Ukraine differed from those applied to other regions, not to mention tactics or strategy with the aim of ...
Vienna, February 23 – Yesterday, as the Chechens and Ingush recalled the 65th anniversary of their deportation by Stalin to Central Asia and the continuing relevance of that event, the Crimean Tatars marked yet another anniversary, the 91st year since the Bolshevik’s murdered the first president of independent Crimea. On February 23, 1918, Bolshevik-led sailors from the Black Sea Fleet based in Sebastopol brutally killed Numan Celebicihan, the mufti for Crimea, Poland and Lithuania who was elected president of native Crimea less than three months earlier with a promise to transform it into a highly-civilized country in which all nationalities would live in democracy and freedom. Crimean Tatars, whose independence was crushed by the Bolsheviks and who also suffered deportation under Stalin recall him frequently because the words of his poem, “Antetkenmen” [“I have Pledged’], ...
posted by eagle on February 24, 2009 7:55 AM as Genocide Crime
65th Anniversary Of Chechen-Ingush Deportations Marked
A file photo of a former memorial, which has since been moved from the center of Grozny by pro-Moscow authorities, to commemorate the deportations at the end of World War II
February 23, 2009
This is the 65th anniversary of the deportation on orders from Soviet leader Josef Stalin of the entire Chechen and Ingush population of the (subsequently abolished) Checheno-Ingush ASSR -- estimates range from 496,000 to 650,000 people -- to Kazakhstan and Central Asia on suspicion of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
Up to half of them died either on the journey -- in unheated cattle wagons -- or in the harsh conditions in which they were forced to live.
Almost exactly 12 years later, in late February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev admitted in his landmark secret speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the ...
posted by eagle on February 23, 2009 11:30 PM as Genocide Crime
Remembering a crime the world has chosen to forget
Publication time: 23 February 2009, 15:29
Sixty five years ago, Stalin and his henchmen celebrated Red Army Day by rounding up and deporting virtually the entire Chechen and Ingush population from the Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Codenamed Operation Chechevitsa (Lentil), the forced removal of the Chechens and Ingush required the services of 119,000 members of the NKVD and SMERSh (Bugai doc. 14, p. 106). Many of these men had previously participated in the deportation of the Kalmyks and the Karachais. On the first day of the operation, Beria reported that by 11:00 AM the NKVD had evicted 94,741 people from their homes and loaded 20,023 into train wagons (Bugai, doc. 11, p. 103). In total the operation lasted until 29 February 1944 (it was a leap year) and involved the forced resettlement of 387,229 Chechens and 91,250 Ingush ...
Because of the five years long second conflict with Russia, Chechnya
experiences a large scale humanitarian disaster: at least 15% of its population
had been exterminated. Torture, rape, extra-judicial killings, Russian death
squads terrorizing the population are an every day reality, and now refugees are
also forced back to the war zones by Russians. Chechens are suffering
disappearances at the Russian night raids, tortures and hunt on the male
population beginning ...Click
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