Questionnaire is a way of gathering essential information
and data that are needed for certain purpose or purposes, which is considered a
cheap and inexpensive method that would assess the opinion of the decision
maker by observing contributors’ participation, who can be potentially large
number of respondents, in order to obtain a “powerful evaluation tool”, which
is a reasonable way to reach a number of reviewers,
large enough to allow statistically analyze of the results.
A well designed/predetermined
questionnaire can be directed and guided in accordance with the objectives of
those who are behind such plan of gathering data in accordance with chosen information
and questions that are selecting and presenting the query which could be the
supporting element of the policies that are assessed and tackled.
A deceived questionnaire was sent to many Circassians through Internet, that was originated as stated from the Institute of Research in the Humanities, Sociology Section, of the Republic of Adygea, which will be described and disscussed in the following:
{The Republic of Adygea Institute for Research in
the Humanities, Sociology Section, had issued
recently a questionnaire under the title of “The Caucasus War: History and the
Present”, which was started with a paragraph as saying: “In May 2009 witnesses the 145th anniversary
of the day when the door under the name of Caucasian War ended. There are
different points of view regarding some controversial issues related to this
event, including the name of the war itself. (We remind that an analogous study
was carried by us 5 years ago. The results of the interrogation carried out in
2004 can be looked here)”.}
Looking at this seemingly guided
agenda, especially when assessing and examining the wording and the way that
the questions were presented, as if providing the people with the answer that
should be given, in order to satisfy their ego of misleading the participants
and to frame them within certain lines and replies. Steps were designed
carefully because the final results needed were the weakest link in this
suspicious questionnaire process!
The questionnaire was viewed as a multi-stage
process beginning with erroneous definition of the articles that had to be
examined and continued with personal information questions ending with given
conclusions in the form of questions. It is not logic to ask a question then
the answer that they wanted the participants to reach, would be considered in
later questions as an undisputed or unquestionable postulate.
Professional
and directive questionnaire should be as good as the questions it contains. The organizers had included hypothetical and semi-demographic
questions for the participants, in order to be used to associate performance
and satisfaction among participants. When someone feels uncomfortable, then respondents will not trust or care
for the whole issue, because the planned objectives are not ethical, not
understandable and not free of bias, and intended mistakes had caused great
changes in meaning and interpretation.
All
questions were of the “Closed Format” type which restricts the answer set forward,
but it is easier for the organizers and more useful to their agenda, because it
is easy to act as if they calculate percentages and other hard statistical data
over the whole participants. Also closed format questions would allow the
organizers to filter out un-needed and un-wanted answers that might occur in an
“Open Format” question; but on the other hand, an ideal situation, it would
allow the participants a margin of freedom to answer the questions freely and
without short-cuts or red-lines.
The
whole issue can be described as:
No
clarity, which brought up information in vague means.
There
are lots of leading questions that force a certain type of answer.
Questions with phrasing that had neither a
positive nor a negative concept.
Hypothetical
questions, that were built on guessing or fantasy, which force the participant
to give thought to a reply that was never considered.
Prestige
bias, which allows the tendency to participants to answer in a way that make
them feel better, and Sometimes there, will be no way to phrase a question so
that all the answers are noble! Also written questionnaires mailed to
participants are considered better off for the convenience of the participants.
The farther away the critical eye of the researcher is, the more expedient the information
provider is.
The
questions and multiple-choice answers will be presented in the following, as
were presented in the said questionnaire:
1. In your opinion: which name best reflects this historical
event?
Russian-Caucasian war Caucasian war difficult to answer
The presented
answers show a way of choosing one of three answers that would show for the
first while that it is an honest multiple choice procedure.
2. Are you interested in historical events of 19th century?
Yes, I'm interested rather yes than no rather no than yes I have to be interested I have no interest
The organizers are searching for the percentage of people
who care for such historical events.
3. Caucasian war was a necessity for Russia
in order to get an exit to the Black Sea and
to defend Caucasian lands.
Agree rather agree rather disagree disagree difficult to answer
The way that this informative type of a question was
directed to the participants, gave no room to find an appropriate answer.
4. Caucasian war was aggressive from the part of Russia.
Agree rather agree rather disagree disagree difficult to answer
In this question, the organizer had continued his
informative method, which got no choice but to form the question and to try at
the same time to form a system of making the participant going along with the
name given to the war in further questions.
5. It is a fact that as a result of the
Caucasian war, people of the North Caucasus were given the chance to "come
nearer" to civilization.
Agree rather agree rather disagree disagree difficult to answer
Again,
the war was called by the organizers: “the Caucasian War”, then added poisonous
information in a vulgar method that is wrapped within the question to touch a
Russian claim that is categorically not true.
6. If it wasn’t Russia
who conquered the North Caucasus, other states
would do it.
Agree rather agree rather disagree disagree difficult to answer
This
question is touching the edge of another Russian claim about other countries’
interests in the Caucasus, which made the questionnaire organizers to show that
Russia was competing with others who were looking to occupy the Caucasus.
7. Caucasian war in every respect was unfair,
and had led to genocide of Circassians.
Agree rather agree rather disagree disagree difficult to answer
The
organizers are describing the war again, being a Caucasian war, and gave a
floating description that in the logical meaning of it, it would lead to other
meaning, especially in the next questions.
8. Which of the names listed below, that are
connected to the war, is less familiar to you?
The
names given are mixed of Russian criminal leaders and some of the North
Caucasian resistance leaders, in order to sample the knowledge of the
participants about certain aspects. This method as if mixes the good and the
bad. There is a temptation to find out the knowledge and the memory of the
participants for further action, depending on the results!
9. In your opinion: In what scopes do people of Adygeya and the Kuban region
face the negative "traces" of the Caucasian war in modern life? (1-2
answers are possible)
In international relations In monuments and names of
some settlements In return of repatriates to
their historical native land In counter-terrorist action
in Chechnya difficult to answer
This
wicked way of addressing questions, gives wrong and misleading information
within the subjects covered, in a way the description of the Kuban Region (the
way the Russians describe that part of Circassia), and again the Caucasian War
description is given in order to make it as the correct name for that Russian
provoked war. The subject is not only negative traces as such, but consequences
of crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing, within the dimensions of “All-out
War” for more than a Century
10. It is known that war, whatever it was, reminds of itself for a long
time. In your opinion, what actions should be done to eliminate the still
existing negative consequences of the Caucasian war? (Mark 1-2 items)
To publish books; text-books
revealing the historical truth about the Caucasian war events. To recognize the genocide of
Circassians in UN organization and in state organs of power in Russia. To restore historical and
geographical names of settlements and regions of Kuban
and Adygeya regions. To commemorate the day of
21-st of May (the day of the end of the war) every year as the Memorial Day of
the war victims. To overcome the negative
consequences of war together with the people of Adygeya and the Kuban region. To exaggerate less this
topic. To forget about this war;
because only very few nations exist who didn't fight against each other. difficult to answer
In
this question, as if the organizer is shy to mention numbers when used long war
expression that is used without using accurate terminology in mentioning the
101 year long war that took place between the Russian Empire and Circassians,
and the second part of the wrongly informed question is more misleading, when
asking the opinion of the participant about actions to be done to eliminate
so-called still existing negative consequences of their portrayal “Caucasian
War”! Still they want the assistance of the partly victim participants who are
the direct dissidents of the victims, to tell the occupiers what to do in order
to get out of their plight.
11. In your opinion: does The Federal Centre by its policies in the North Caucasus take into account the lessons of the
Caucasian war? To what extent?
Yes, it does it rather does than doesn't it rather doesn't than does it doesn't take it into account
at all difficult to answer
In
this question, the organizers are trying to implement the title “FederalCenter”
and the described, policies in the North Caucasus;
but again their trade-mark expression “Caucasian War” is used.
The
following personal questions that the statistical information needed, for the
purpose of finding out about who are concerned with this type of activities,
the geographical distribution, age & gender interest in this matter, education,
concentration of Circassian communities in different countries &
nationalities, all concerned the occupation, beside source of income, in order
to sample the opinion of people about the Russian imperial policies, but
without calling things in their real titles:
Please give some information about yourself:
12. Your gender:
male female
13. Your age:
under 19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 or more
14. Your education:
Incomplete secondary education
(8 classes and less) Secondary education (finished
school, trade-school) Secondary technical education
(technical school) High Education (finished or
un-finished)
15. What is your nationality?
Adiga Russian The representative of other
Caucasian nationality The representative of other
slavic nationality The representative of other
people
16. What is your occupation? What is your source of income?
USA Great
Britain Germany Syria Jordan Turkey Israel France Other
It is good to know that
this suspicious-guided questionnaire, had presented the Russian imperial agenda
by differentiating between the Circassian nation, when described in the ninth
question the people of Adygea and the Kuban
Basin, forgetting or in fact intentionally forgetting that this part of the
people is part of the Circassian nation that is distributed in other parts of
historical Circassia and Circassian Diaspora, which is important to remind the
stubborn Russian colonialist that the residence of Circassians is between the
Kuban River in the North to the Black Sea in the South, and from the land of
the Circassian Kabardian tribe in the East to Anapa in the West, and there is
12 Circassian tribes that got a black history and disastrous events with that
who accepted to be occupier, colonialist, and criminal, and those who oppressed
others, will know what would be their status later on.
When committing destruction,
robbery, confiscation, killing, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and forced
deportation, which effected millions of Circassians, and at the end, the
colonial Russian state, instead of presenting the apologies, recognizing the
genocide, mistakes and other crimes, and offering reconciliation and peace, they
were boldly describing their Effrontery
and Shameful acts against humanity as made any one
to be described
as nearer to civilization!
Who is nearer to civilization in
this case? Is it the victim or the criminal?
Circassians were made to persist;
because that is the way they found who they are. Aggressors have to remember
that the Circassian nation had existed for more than 6000 years in spite of
difficulties and challenges, taking into consideration that other nations and
peoples had come to extinct, and what counts is that we must keep going despite
the obstacles in front of us, for keeping on, we recall: “The race is not
always to the swift, but to those who keep on running”.
Charles Darwin had said in the
survival of the species: “It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”.
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