February 26th 2009 · Prague Watchdog / Usam Baysayev· ALSO AVAILABLE IN:
A nation of camp followers
By Usam Baysayev, special to Prague Watchdog
I don’t like the clean and tidy Moscow-Grozny train. At Khankala – the last station before the Chechen capital – I always wonder if my mood is going to be spoiled by the sight of Chechen girls and women surrounded almost exclusively by non-Chechen males in camouflage uniform, holding automatic weapons... I usually draw the blinds.
I can’t bear to watch as the women fawn and caress, in the hope that the men will buy something from them. It was probably in just such a manner that they degraded themselves, looking the soldiers in the eye, when dozens of men who had been picked up in the course of “mop-ups” were tortured and killed ...
Chechen Dissident Arrested In Poland Suspected In Vienna Slaying
Protesters hold pictures and a banner asking "Who's next?" during a rally in
Vienna on January 22 in memory of murder victim Israilov.
February 24, 2009
Austria is seeking the extradition of a man arrested by Polish police who is suspected of involvement in the killing of a Chechen refugee in Vienna last month.
The man, arrested near Warsaw on February 19, is a Russian national of Chechen origin.
He is suspected of involvement in the killing of 27-year-old Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov who was shot dead on January 13.
Israilov had filed a criminal complaint last year accusing Kadyrov of torture and other abuses in Chechnya.
Kadyrov's critics fear Israilov's death could effectively quash their best hopes for bringing conclusive evidence to light of alleged ...
February 23rd marked World Chechnya Day, which solemnly commemorates Joseph Stalin’s mass deportation of Chechens to Siberia in 1944. In an open letter published in the Guardian newspaper, the ...
I would like to welcome everyone to this Chechnya Peace Forum event, Chechnya: The Forgotten War.
Throughout history the peoples of the Caucasus have found themselves in the crossfire of imperialistic ambitions from Iran, Turkey and Russia.
During the last 400 years Russian warfare in the region has been particularly aggressive and after long military campaigns in the 18th and 19th centuries both Southern and Northern Caucasus came under Russian control, later to be incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922, after the Russian revolution.
In the Soviet Union during the Second World War far more people were killed by their own paranoid leader Joseph Stalin than by German troops, and as many of you will know, Monday 23rd February is World Chechnya Day, when the entire Chechen population in 1944 was deported from their ...
February 23rd 2009 · Prague Watchdog / Dzhambulat Are· ALSO AVAILABLE IN:
By Dzhambulat Are
GROZNY, Chechnya – Who are they – the leaders of Ichkeria past and present, of the Caucasus Emirate and the armed groups that operate underground? On the new Chechen Grozny TV channel a talk show organized and virtually hosted by the Moscow-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov provided a detailed answer to this question. In the programme yesterday’s intransigent fighters of the Ichkerian and Islamist underground reminisced about their former colleagues.
In his role as television producer and presenter Ramzan Kadyrov managed to achieve some remarkable results. Having brought together in one room a few dozen of his recent enemies among the Ichkerian field commanders, he made them systematically trample in the ...
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