09 January 2010 – NatPress.Net
Adygs did not managed to celebrate the
New Year holiday having organized Adyghe Djegu at the New Year’s night
of December, 31st on the main square of Maykop. In 0:30 am of January,
1st when near the accordion player and his audience a people’s circle
approximately from 100 men gathered, employees of militia from the town
public security department interfered. As the journalist of the
republican newspaper “Adyghe mak” (“Adyg’s Voice”) Nurbiy Emtyl told
NatPress, on the square there were gathered approximately 30 festively
dressed girls, about 50 young guys, and the other contingent was formed
by their parents who also led their children of the preschool age. On the platform, the journalist
described, there had been no actors, but it was not empty - from the
dynamics music flew, and the townspeople with bottles of champagne were
drinking and dancing there. The Adygeyan circle gathered a little aside
so that its own folk music was more audible to the participants. “Employees of militia, - N. Emtyl
explained, - not just came up, introduced, and so on. They rushed with
automatic guns, and right there and then with shouts and abuse ran up
to those who, in their opinion, were the organizers of the action. The
sense of their actions and statements was in that it was impossible to
dance there”. Employees of militia were
specified that there were dances on the platform; townspeople were
indignant with that such interdiction could not be lawful, and asked
about which order for such interdiction was. And all that was
accompanied by a fuss that was about to turn into direct fights. The
last question - under whose order - one of the guards of the public
order reacted: he pointed his finger upwards. “Who is concrete from those who are on the top”, - the gathered asked to bring specification.
They were answered: “From the high top”.
They asked him again, whether there was some written instruction.
“That was an oral order”, - he said.
“I told that militiaman that
Adygeya president Aslan Tkhakushinov could not have given such order, -
the journalist continued his story, - Then I was said that they mean
the highest top”. “Only one of the militiamen was
ashamed by the gathered, and he introduced himself, - Nurbiy Emtyl
explained, - That was captain of militia of public security of Maykop
Arthur Metov”. “If in the circle of the gathered
there were the local Adygs, - the journalist also commented, - I think
the conflict would have been completely different. But they were
basically repatriates and their children. They only cried, and not only
girls, but also guys, and adults”. “Here, I have taken with myself
my phone on which I speak with my girlfriends from Turkey, - one of the
girls told the journalist, - I had wished to call them during Djegu to
let them hear the music. I have wished to show, how we are cheerful
here on our native land. Now I do not know what to do …” Nurbiy Emtyl explained NatPress
that was not the first case of dispersal of Adyghe Djegu on the main
square of Adygeya capital. He became a witness of similar situation
during carrying out of the international festival “Asterisks of
Adygeya”. Then basically repatriates tried to gather the dancing
circle, too, as to participate in the festival not only the local
actors gathered, at there were many representatives of Circassian
Diaspora.
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