SEPTEMBER 2005

Month in Brief - August 2005

September 5th 2005 · Prague Watchdog

August 2

The Russian Foreign Ministry said it would not renew the accreditation of journalists of US channel ABC, which on July 28 aired an interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev made by Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky.

August 3

Ramzan Kadyrov, Vice-Premier of the Moscow-backed Chechen government, announced that the authorities plan to build in Grozny an Islamic education center, which would include, among other things, the largest mosque in Europe. He also voiced his intention to put an end to gambling in the republic.

A ceremony marking the start of construction of a new 170 km pipeline that should provide gas to Chechnya's southern districts took place in Gudermes.

Ingushetia's Supreme Court sentenced 13 participants in the June 2004 coordinated guerrilla attacks on the republic's Interior Ministry forces to 8-25 years in prison.

August 4

Chechen religious leaders announced their decision to declare jihad on wahhabism ...
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September, 1, 2005

“The destiny of the Chechen people is solved on the fields of battles in Ichkeria”

For the 6 th year the next genocide war of Russia against the Chechen people, unleashed by the Kremlin regime in the summer of 1999, proceeds in the territory of sovereign Ichkeria.

According to military historians and independent analysts, the still proceeding war between the Russian Federation and the ChRI (aggressive on the part of Russian and defensive on the part of Chechens) is the bloodiest massacre in the newest history of Europe , which by its duration is comparable only to the Second World War (1939-1945).

If the losses of the Soviet people in the so-called "Great Patriotic War” with German aggressors made, according to the most overestimated estimations, up to 30 million people killed (about 18-20 % from the population of the USSR), incomplete losses of the Chechen people in the really Patriotic war ...
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September, 1, 2005

“The destiny of the Chechen people is solved on the fields of battles in Ichkeria”

For the 6 th year the next genocide war of Russia against the Chechen people, unleashed by the Kremlin regime in the summer of 1999, proceeds in the territory of sovereign Ichkeria.

According to military historians and independent analysts, the still proceeding war between the Russian Federation and the ChRI (aggressive on the part of Russian and defensive on the part of Chechens) is the bloodiest massacre in the newest history of Europe , which by its duration is comparable only to the Second World War (1939-1945).

If the losses of the Soviet people in the so-called "Great Patriotic War” with German aggressors made, according to the most overestimated estimations, up to 30 million people killed (about 18-20 % from the population of the USSR), incomplete losses of the Chechen people in the really Patriotic war ...
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September, 1, 2005

“The destiny of the Chechen people is solved on the fields of battles in Ichkeria”

For the 6 th year the next genocide war of Russia against the Chechen people, unleashed by the Kremlin regime in the summer of 1999, proceeds in the territory of sovereign Ichkeria.

According to military historians and independent analysts, the still proceeding war between the Russian Federation and the ChRI (aggressive on the part of Russian and defensive on the part of Chechens) is the bloodiest massacre in the newest history of Europe , which by its duration is comparable only to the Second World War (1939-1945).

If the losses of the Soviet people in the so-called "Great Patriotic War” with German aggressors made, according to the most overestimated estimations, up to 30 million people killed (about 18-20 % from the population of the USSR), incomplete losses of the Chechen people in the really Patriotic war ...
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Save Chechnya Exhibition in London
04.09.2005 - 00:15:38

Awardwinning Photography from Chechnya
Talks by leading Chechnya Advocates
Cutting edge documentaries

Save Chechnya Exhibition

Stop the Genocide. Acquaint yourself with the Killing Fields of Europe.

FUNDRAISING APPEAL

Date: Sunday 4th September 2005 Time: 10am - 6pm

Venue: Islamic Cultural Centre, 146 Park Road, Regents Park, London, NW8 7RG
Nearest Tube station: Baker Street

More information about the event and organisation can be obtained online: www.savechechnya.org

FEATURING:

Exhibition of award winning photography from Chechnya by Stanley Greene
Winner of the 2004 Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography.
Winner of the 2004 World Press Photo for Daily Life Award.

TALKS:

Dr. Khassan Baiev - Author of ´The Oath´

Mrs. Saida Sherif : Chairperson, Save Chechnya Campaign

Lord Rea: Patron of Save Chechnya Campaign

Vanessa Redgrave: Leading Advocate for Chechnya

DOCUMENTARY VIEWINGS Cutting edge documentaries on Chechnya

2005 marks the 11th year since Russia launched its brutal war in Chechnya.

A quarter of the Chechen population has been killed and a comparable number displaced.

Rampant human rights abuses ...
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