Chechnya: Rights Situation May Be Improving
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posted by FerrasB on June, 2007 as CHECHNYA
From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 6/22/2007 9:10 AM Chechnya: Rights Situation May Be Improving By Liz Fuller (RFE/RL) The current war in Chechnya that began in the fall of 1999 has, to a far greater degree than the 1994-1996 conflict, been accompanied by systematic, widespread, and egregious human rights violations committed by both the Russian military and pro-Moscow Chechen forces. Russian and international human rights watchdogs have compiled detailed dossiers chronicling blanket search operations; arbitrary arrests; abductions for ransom; and the use of torture against, and even the summary execution of, persons suspected of sympathizing with or abetting resistance forces. Chechen websites have reported cases of children being apprehended and killed and their internal organs removed before the mutilated bodies were dumped. By far the most widespread abuse is that of the abduction of Chechen noncombatant civilians, a practice that Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin described in 2004 as "the main [human rights] problem" in Chechnya, ... >> full
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www.qoqaz.com: They Said About Chechnya
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/23/2007 12:26 AM They Said About Chechnya (Excerpts from the book / Allah’s Mountains: The Battle For Chechnya By Sebastian Smith) "As the end of the former Soviet Union in 1991 had approached, Chechen nationalists could start tasting victory against the communists, and Johar, their leader was says: "The slave that is not trying to liberate himself, then he is a slave twice." “I was never in hunger of power, wealth and job, and I did have always only one idea, fighting for the right of the Chechen People for independence. That is the aim of my life and will not hide ashamed of it, not under any circumstances or under any pressure”. Johar Dudayev “Liberty or death, the cry started echoing in the mountains again. Liberty or death, we, and God with us” A Chechen poem, for Imam Ali Sultanov, 1995. “Russians are presenting their invasion of the Caucasus that is ... >> full
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Prima-News: Skirmish In Grozny
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/23/2007 2:21 AM 23.6.2007 07:56 MSK Skirmish in Grozny CHECHNYA, Grozny. On June 20, in the Staropromyslovsky region of Grozny, an armed incident occurred. OMON (Special Forces Unit) and GIBDD (State Inspectorate for Road Traffic Safety) MVD officers fought with soldiers of the GRU West Special Forces Battalion, reported the information center SNO on June 21. According to eyewitnesses, the conflict occurred after a GIBDD officer stopped a motor vehicle carrying intoxicated West Special Forces soldiers. The GIBDD officer demanded that they come with him to his post. In response, the Special Forces soldiers attacked the GIBDD officer and beat him with the butts of their rifles and kick him. A GIBDD officer came to his colleague’s aid. As a result of the skirmish, four soldiers of "West" Battalion and an OMON officer were killed. Several of the "siloviki” (military officers) received injuries of different degrees of gravity. One ... >> full
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/25/2007 2:24 PM Chechnya — The Forgotten Struggle Publication time: 25 June 2007, 19:41 A Review of Tony Wood's Chechnya: The Case for Independence It seems like only yesterday that scenes of destruction combined with rumors of atrocities and illegal weapons use by Russian troops against the Chechnyan people were all over the evening news. Nowadays, one hears very little about this anti-colonial struggle unless it has to do with some hostage taking event that usually ends up resulting in the deaths of hundreds. This silence is not because the Chechnyan guerrillas have given up their hope for independence, nor is it because the movement has been completely destroyed by Russian aggression. Instead, according to Tony Wood's recent book Chechnya: The Case for Independence (Verso 2007), it is due to the complicity of Western powers and Moscow in silencing the movement via guns, bombs and silence. Wood's text is ... >> full
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Caucasian Knot: Public Prosecutors Searching Human Rights Activists' Houses...
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posted by FerrasB on as CHECHNYA
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/27/2007 4:32 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 25/6/2007 Public prosecutors searching human rights activists' houses trying to find Ulman The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 14 the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court sentenced in absentia Eduard Ulman, a special troop's officer, to 14 years of imprisonment for a murder of six residents of Chechnya. The court also sentenced his subordinates Alexander Kalaganskiy and Vladimir Voevodin to 11 and 12 years of imprisonment, accordingly, and the only defendant who was present in the courtroom Alexei Perelevskiy - to 9 years of imprisonment. The court defined the strict custody mode for all of them. The whereabouts of the three suddenly disappeared defendants - Eduard Ulman, Alexander Kalaganskiy and Vladimir Voevodin - have not been defined so far. On June 18, Roman Krzhechkovskiy, Ulman's advocate, filed a cassation complaint against the verdict passed to Ulman's group. Chechen Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev has stated that ... >> full
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