From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2005 3:00 AM
Decmber, 14, 2005
When silence is a crime
It is not their war. They were not guilty in anything. War has come to them in the house and has stolen their childhood, has forced to mature early. They saw, how kill people, as their relatives die. And the death was near, followed them.
We - grown up without bombardments, the weapons, "cleanings" can't understand. We played toys, climbed on trees and were pleased with life , and did not reflect on the price of life and that there is a death.
"I was 11 years old, I precisely imagined, what life is, and what her price means. These feelings cannot be described in words when very close you feel death. There is a lump in the throat, it is difficult to breathe and ideas go confusedly".
Completely casually I read this article written by the Chechen girl. These are memoirs on the childhood. More truly, it was not the childhood in our representation. We will not understand it up to the end... Never. We may only try.
In the Chechen Republic for years of war were lost 42 000 children. Thousands were wounded and have remained cripples. Let alone souls and a psychological condition of children which have grown within war. Nobody will undertake to count their amount.
Children of war. They have gone through everything for the short life. Not each adult is in a condition to take so much death, pain, fear... Tragedy in Beslan. Capture of school. Noone will forget this tragedy. 320 victims. The Chechen Republic - 42 000 killed children. They die till now. We are silent about it. We close on it our eyes.
And it happens even now. About Beslan spoke everyone, about children of the Chechen Republic prefer to be silent. Why we do not speak about it? Or are they casual victims of war for us, as they say - a wood is cut, chips fly? What is the price of children's life?
If to proceed from the point of view of a today's situation, Russia is not excited with victims as such. Not considering(examining) human life as value, establishing the right on the ground of the Chechen Republic, the state machinery is ready to sweep away and cross through corpses for achievement of the purpose. And anybody and never will undertake the responsibility for their lifes. You see for them the lost children ‰ it only victims and cold the report of figures. And behind each figure disappears small ?aeiaa?ae with a name, a surname, parents, relatives and the friends, not come true dreams. His(its) life has broken also to it(him) already never to finish school, to not go to study in university, never to see, how his(its) parents grow old and his(its) children mature to not see birth of grandsons. A terrible word: never. This word does not have future. Only emptiness.
Who, finally, decides to live or die - the pilot pressing on the button, or the one who gives the order to press? Whether the person giving the order or signing the document on the beginning of war, has a right on such action? I have in view the moral right to decide to let the war be, or not? The president? He is elected by people, each of us. Is in dependence from our choice and a public opinion. We have direct opportunity to influence his decisions. Other thing is, whether we are able to use this right. Professing a principle of non-interference, and living with the motto "until it does not concern me it does not worry me" - we create our future.
Why we are silent and shut eyes on what now occurs in the Chechen Republic? Some think, that there is no sense to interfere and speak about it, if it them directly does not concern. You see, not their children die in the Chechen Republic today. It does not depend on a nationality and education, earnings and a post. It is our conscience, moral qualities of each of us.
Nobody knows when in their country, city, on their street, in their house war will come. And nobody will give a guarantee, that tomorrow it will not happen to your children. And as you are silent now, others will be silent tomorrow.
"Durring this time in me huge hatred to everything, that was connected to Russia has gathered. I long might vould not leave this hatred. I could not speak about war without tears".
How should they after that treat to Russian people if saw only that Russians have come on their land and killed their relatives, fireed at their houses.
Everything is logical and Everything comes back to circles. One will reap what has sown. What we have sown in the Chechen Republic? Hatred in hearts of children...
Children who have survived Beslan, passed rehabilitation in the different countries of the world. Their psychological condition is watched till now by psychologists, and the attention is paid to this theme.
When we shall begin to pay attention the Chechen problem, and in particular to children who have survived war? When we shall turn to them the face and not only pretend, that we listen, but hear them?
I do not want to mention politics in this article. For me it is more important to inform up to you the pain of Chechens. Their pain of yesterday and today. People of the Chechen Republic want to be heard. Would like to tell them: not everyone is indifferent to what happened to you.
Tihonova Valentine, Byelorussia
Chechenpress, 14.12.05
http://chechenpress.co.uk/english/news/2005/12/14/03.shtml
