RFE/RL: Chechen Leadership In Exile Calls for Moratorium On Attacks On Police
posted by circassiankama on August, 2009 as CHECHNYA
July 27, 2009
Chechen Leadership In Exile Calls For Moratorium On Attacks On Police
Members of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria (ChRI) government and
parliament in exile met in Berlin on July 25 to discuss the formal
announcement in Oslo the previous day that ChRI Prime Minister Akhmed
Zakayev and Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, speaker of the pro-Moscow Chechen
Republic parliament, have embarked on consultations aimed at stabilizing the situation in Chechnya.
Those
consultations, Abdurakhmanov said in a formal statement read out at the
July 24 press conference, were initiated by Chechen Republic head
Ramzan Kadyrov with the aim of completing the consolidation of Chechen
society, and have the full support of both Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Zakayev reported
at length to the Berlin meeting on the content of his talks with
Abdurakhmanov, specific details ...
Memorial's Closure Leaves Chechens With Nowhere To Turn
by Claire Bigg
In January 2002, Zelimkhan Yezhiyev's son left his village in Chechnya on a trip to the neighboring republic of Ingushetia.
He was never seen again.
So
Yezhiyev did what many Chechens do in that situation -- he traveled to
the republican capital, Grozny, and knocked on the door of Memorial,
Russia's leading human rights group.
That's where he first met
Natalya Estemirova, one of the region's boldest rights campaigners, who
became Yezhiyev's main ally in the search for his son.
She
helped him file inquiries with the police and take his case to court,
and she offered much-needed advice and moral support. His son, 22 at
the time of his disappearance, is still missing.
Yezhiyev again
sought Estemirova's help when armed men began carrying out raids on his
village and ...
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