AUGUST 2005

August, 29, 2005

It is high time for USA to reject the term "Chechen terrorism"

It is impossible to tell, what further approaches of USA authority to Chechen mojaheds will be, but it is definitely possible to tell, that after the translation of an interview with Shamil Basaev the American - Russian relations didn't become better. By results of the interrogation which has been carried out by Assembly of Protection of Sovereignty of CHRI, and the opinions of ordinary Americans collected by this organization it was found out, that as a whole the American society treat with the big sympathy the struggle of Chechen people.

And it happened, in spite of the fact that Russian foreign policy department on all international forums constantly insisted that Chechen mojaheds are "terrorists". Thus, the tremendous bluff of new nomads about the threat of "global terrorism", fostered in lobbies of Liubianka and skilfully used by administration of ...
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Chechnya horrors
Bitterness and brutality fuel war that engulfed Beslan
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Injustices fuel Chechnya's fires
By Patrick Jackson
BBC News
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 17:31 GMT 18:31 UK

Russia has recorded no attacks resulting in massive loss of civilian life in the year since pro-Chechen militants seized the school in Beslan.

Chechen security officer checks a classroom in Grozny 31 August 2005
A new generation of Chechens is growing up amid uncertainty

But in Chechnya itself, civilians continue to suffer as the separatist war grinds on - much of it unpublicised because of Russian media restrictions.

Hardly a night passes without a rebel ambush or a raid by security forces, the latter sometimes only reported by human rights groups.

Chechen refugees may no longer spend the freezing winters in tents. But many remain scattered outside their homeland, dispossessed and often living in atrocious conditions, on former dairy farms, in factories and train carriages.

"There hasn't been a war in Chechnya for three years ...
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