NOVEMBER 2007

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/16/2007 10:43 AM
November 15, 2007

Address by the ChRI Parliament

SIA CHECHENPRESS, November 15, 2007


 

 

For the attention of:

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon!

The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Chairman Rene van der Linden!

Chairman of the Organisation for the Security and Cooperation in Europe Miguel Moratinos!

The European Parliament Chairman Hans-Gert Pettering!

The Islamic Conference Organisation Secretary General Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu

Dear Sirs!

We do not think that you are fully aware of the real danger of the Chechen nation simply disappearing if the Kremlin continues its policy of genocide against the Chechens.

We do not think that the international legal, political and humanitarian organizations possess sufficient information about the tragic events in the ChRI in the last 10-15 years, where as a result of regular aggressive actions Russia has been carrying out the ethnic genocide – the ethnocide – of the Chechen people, crimes which are qualified by the international law as ...
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From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/15/2007 7:33 AM
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Chechen Leadership In Exile Seeks To Salvage Legitimacy

By Liz Fuller

Doku Umarov proclaimed himself amir in a video sent to RFE/RL
(RFE/RL)
November 15, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Adducing the Chechen Republic Ichkeria (ChRI ) Constitution adopted in March 1992, the ChRI parliament in exile ruled on November 6 that ChRI President and resistance commander Doku Umarov has effectively relinquished his presidential powers by proclaiming a North Caucasus emirate of which he claims to be the leader. A statement signed by ChRI parliament Chairman Zhaloudi Saralyapov and posted on November 6 on chechenews.com affirmed that the authorities of the president and government chairman now devolve upon the Chechen parliament.



Representatives in exile of the ChRI parliament and government responded to the initial rumors of Umarov's proclamation of a North Caucasus emirate with outrage and concern. They not only suspected -- and continue to suspect ...
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From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/15/2007 1:51 PM
ISLAMIC PLEDGE SPLITS CHECHEN REBELS

Exiled parliamentarians say they are stripping militant leader of his powers after he proclaimed himself emir.

By Umalt Dudayev in Grozny

A split has opened up in the scattered Chechen separatist leadership after rebel leader Dokka Umarov declared himself "Emir of the Caucasian front", provoking a furious response from exiled Chechen politicians who say such Islamist rhetoric undermines their cause.

On November 6, members of the "parliament of Ichkeria" - the name separatists give the unrecognised Chechen republic which functioned between 1996 and 1999 before the second Russian military intervention - issued a decree saying that Umarov had exceeded his powers and was being stripped of his office, and that all authority now devolved to the parliament until new elections are held.

Six days later, a pro-Umarov website ran a video entitled "Of Heroes and Hypocrites" which mocked Ichkeria's London-based "foreign minister" ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/13/2007 2:44 AM
November 11th 2007 · Prague Watchdog     
    
    
Fifteenth issue of the monthly Chechen Society Today released

PRAGUE, November 11 - The fifteenth issue of the monthly Chechenskoye obshchestvo segodnya (Chechen Society Today) has been released.

This latest edition of the magazine focuses on Chechnya's links with the outside world, and the experiences and problems of Chechens living abroad.

Notable features include a report on a "movlid", or prayer ceremony, held at a Moscow hotel by the city's Chechen community on October 3 to celebrate the Muslim feast of Ramadan. The event was attended by more than 400 people. There are articles about the opening of new rail links between Chechnya and Simferopol and St Petersburg, and about the burgeoning growth of digital telephone exchanges throughout the republic, which are making it possible for landline telephones to be used again after the damage that ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 11/13/2007 2:45 AM
November 11th 2007 · Prague Watchdog     
    
    
The Month in Brief - October 2007

October 1

The congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party in Moscow decided that the Kremlin-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov would head the ticket for the party's Chechen branch in the upcoming December State Duma elections. At the same time, President Putin accepted the party's proposal that he head its federal ticket for the elections.

October 2

One policeman was killed and several more wounded as the result of an explosion at a cafe in Grozny.

It was announced that former Ichkerian MP Vagap Tutakov was to work on matters that concerned the return of his compatriots to their native country.

October 3

Dokka Umarov, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, signed a number of decrees honouring slain top guerrilla commanders, including Abdul-Khalim Sadullayev and Shamil Basayev, and making changes in the ...
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