The Circassian Mobility between the
North Caucasus and Diaspora
Presented By: Adel Bashqawi
20 - May - 2009
The unprecedented interest in the Circassian Question at present time is not matched by any other interest since the end of the Russian
/ Circassian War, which is synonymous and parallel with what is known as the Russian
/ Caucasian War, one hundred and forty-five years ago, specifically in
21-5-1864, and that is reflected through the strong interest in the books,
documents, publications, manuscripts, maps and information distributed around
the world and the increase of demand on them, to the degree of the increase of
their prices to the degree of fantasy, in addition to the proliferation of Web
Sites that provided extensive information on all aspects of the elements that
affected the course of events, which resulted from the war of genocide against
the Circassians. New contributions had enriched the Circassian library,
and from the writing and publication of academicians and the concerned of Circassians
and others, and others. This interest must be followed or appeased by an appropriate
program and a Circassian agenda that take into account all the important global
transformations and its extensions and branches at all frames in all directions
in order to preserve the legitimate rights within the framework of human values
and international laws. Circassians have held during the recent few years important
meetings and conferences in many places locations between the Motherland,
Europe, the United States, Turkey, Syria, and Jordan and resulted of resolutions,
recommendations, and positive echoes, where the Circassian Question has
resurfaced the declaration of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
the acceleration momentum has increased due to that. It came to the attention
that the Internet has changed the face of the world, and it is the most
important scientific methods in the use of usage of communications and
information technology, as if the Internet was found for the Circassian Nation
that is distributed around the world. Yakov Gordon, a famous Russian Historian
and close to the current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who described Circassia
as the Atlantis of the Caucasus, and he demanded from Russians that they should
admit their deeds of what they had committed against the Circassian Nation so
as to bring harmony, and Atlantis is described by the Pharaohs and the ancient
Greek philosopher Plato is the missing continent nor the missing island under
the waters of the Atlantic Ocean! We must not forget also that the Circassian
Charity Society in Jordan, in an unprecedented manner, and on behalf of
Circassians, had sent a letter to the Former Russian President, who is the current
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, connected to the Circassian demands,
concerning the Circassian justified demands and the most important of all is the Right of Return,
but has not announced until very recently whether any response had been received
from the Russian Federation Presidency office to the letter, as well as the
talks were held between the delegations of the Republics and Kabardino-Balkaria
on one side and the Circassian Charity Association Of Jordan, on the spots that
of interest to the Circassian Nation to cooperate to achieve, and no
information had erupted about the results.
http://www.justicefornorthcaucasus.com/Circassia_1855.pdf
145 Years since the Circassian Catastrophe
One hundred and forty-five years have passed since
the end of the war of genocide that has befallen on the Circassian Nation, due
to the elapse of that period that is relatively short at the age of time and at
the same time, long in terms of obsolete results for each of the tragedies,
pains, calamities, injustice and the toughness of being away from the soil of
Motherland, Circassia. When one is simulating the conscience through the live
description that has been in the memory of the grief-stricken nation
grief-stricken, the effects of deep sorrow appear, for the status of the nation
that has reached to, when the Russian/Caucasian War had ended, and
victory consequences of the foe, publicly appear and the bleeding wounds
ulcerate and the Homeland soil the curiosity to host the remains of the martyrs
who defended their Homeland, and to show resentment for the deportation of the
vast majority of its natives who of course did not go for a picnic or for relaxation
and recreation, and not for an open tourist-journey that may reach all this
time that has elapsed and will elapse before realization of righteousness and its
return to its true legal legitimate concerned, and this is the real reason why
the ancestors had accepted the transition to safer places until the proper time
comes to return to Homeland and after the deletion of the causes of absence
which inevitably will disappear one day, where those concerns and hopes were
mentioned in dialogues, songs and poems of the "forcibly displaced migrants",
and was perhaps the most important of all, what was presented by a group of scholar
Circassian youths who were studying at the University of Sorbonne in the
twenties of the twentieth century, amongst them was the Late Professor Aytak
Nametuq, and Late Amin Samkough, when they presented a pleasant melodized poem that
sang for the Homeland, and was called, “the Circassian national Anthem”, which
Late Amin Samkough, when he was a school principle of a school for Circassians
in the Golan Heights in the thirties of the Twentieth Century, had provided the
space for students to sing the anthem in the morning of every new day, to keep
the Caucasus and Circassia in the memory of the younger generation.
Rape of the Land and Attempts of Rape of History and the Sequence of
Events
It is appropriate to mention in this vicinity that
the Homeland that was robbed and raped by force and insidious at the unequal victory
achieved by the colonial invading forces armed with the tight blockade and the
superiority in figures and equipment depending on the conceit, haughtiness and
arrogance, and utter disregard of all religious and human values, not to
mention the complicity of the countries with the concerns, the aspirations, the
colonial ambitions and selfish purposes; with the passage of time, attempts here and there, the tryouts appear to
rape culture, history and rights, including the right of return, and the right
to self-determination, guaranteed by International Law, the Charter of the
United Nations and Human Rights Regulations, after the land was raped and decimated
crops & progeny, where malicious attempts had continued to develop the
techniques of control of the minds by using the methods of deporting the Circassian Homeland from the minds
of its natives and children, through the acceptance of the fait and to extend the period of the tourist
leave granted to ninety percent of the Circassian people by the occupiers for
an indefinite period! I can think of this aspect the queries of the famous
Indian poet Tagore, about the misery of the people and the reason for their
poverty, sorrow and pain and what to do in order to have peace prevails on the earth
and he saw clearly that the tragic situation of his people was a result of the colonialism
and slavery and due to torture, persecution and injustice, while he believed
that there is no impossible, and no one who ever he is can put restrictions and
handcuffs for his people or to stop the path of struggle towards victory, where
he says:
Let them strike iron fetters strongly
But we will get ahead them to destroy
Let them glance with their looks, that bleed blood
and threat
But we will not fear them and will frown our Eyebrows
They will not scoff at us for long
Their flags will eventually fall on our soil
Circassian Rights and principles
After 145 years of the catastrophe, it is the
intransigence and arrogance are the key factors in the equation of the
relationship between Russia as the dominant side over the course of events in
Circassia, and on Circassians who remained at Homeland, at the same time, the
Circassians who were forcibly deported are the vast majority of the Circassian
nation being 90 % of the total number, but there is a significant failure of
the Circassian organizations at Homeland and Diaspora in regard to straighten
things out and to discuss matters of
vital interest that pertain to present and the future to include genocide, ethnic
cleansing and forced deportation to resolve all matters relating to the
Circassian rights and to obtain the right of return through international
institutions have the integrity, objectivity and of competence in methods and
ways of dealing with such cases and situations. In the absence of the basic
components of the adoption of the agenda of recovering Circassian rights as a
result of the Circassian and the division, fragmentation and lack of clarity of
vision would all of result in the weakness of national coherence and cohesion
in a global melting pot, where the accountability should be here working to
devote the tragic reality and make a mess of ideas and broadcast mean propaganda
to keep the status quo as is; It is enough to depend on others to accept the
dissemination of ideas, theories, and agendas that do not serve in any way,
except in keeping the situation as is, and equally we need to re-mind to deal
with a democratic system within the administrative structures responsible, as
well as all who are interested in the groups and the Circassian communities who
are extended between Motherland and Diaspora, where it is possible through the
required attention to be logical to understand the necessary vocabulary and
concepts for the implementation of the basic principles agreed upon, within renewed,
improved, and specific definitions that are free from the burden of past experiences
and mistakes, and a clear adoption must be carried out, of clear approach that
does not attain defensive apologetic tone defects as a result of pressure or
blackmail may be morally exercised by usually the same concerned part that
could be called here the other party. Let us suppose that the Circassian nation
was able to recover some of its fundamental rights in a phased manner in the
process to restore all its rights over the medium and long term, so if we want
to reach a comprehensive solution to the Circassian Question in the surrounding
and available circumstances, more regular activity to raise awareness for the intention
of change that will be coming by the overwhelming majority of the Circassian people
and this majority, which is described the silent majority, it is deployed
between Motherland and the rest of the world.
Suspicious
Warnings, and Rejected Artificial Taboos
The real story which led to dispersal of the
Circassian unity should be remembered, and it should not be allowed in any way to
delete the Circassian memory, which will be part of it if it is executed, forgetting
Circassia, the Homeland, the nation, and selflessness! But for reaching a
political solution to the Circassian Question, in the shadow of the existing specifics, that all different
currents should participate to hurry for more regular activity for the defense
of those meanings and to employ them for the required change, and confront the
hostile penetration of the idea of uniting the efforts in order to recover the stolen
rights, and to hold to the acknowledged documentary story about the occupation
of the North Caucasus, for the protection of Circassian historical memory and its
genuine symbols, but away from the containment by any side. Circassia, the Homeland
will remain the eternal hope for the inhabitants and natives, even if matters
and results came, non-integrated to the recovery of the rights on intervals within
the limits of the historic Homeland. What happened during the years of the Tsarist
Russian occupation and the Soviet era up to the federal rule at the present
time, a rape of the Circassian Homeland, and the displacement and dispersal of
its people! It is appropriate to cite in the present context, what was stated
by Circassia
News site, citing the Russian Novosti News Agency, that Russian young
researcher Anastasia Ganich had published a book entitled "Circassians in
Jordan, “Historical and Cultural Development Properties”. This scientific work
deals with the history of the emergence and evolution of the Circassian
communities (or in a broader sense the North Caucasian) in the countries of the
Middle East with a focus on the history of Circassians – The Adighas in Jordan.
The author comprised the contribution of Circassian community in the political
and military life of the Jordanian state, paying attention to the special
attention to the issues of the cultural adaptation of immigrants and their
descendants with the circumstances of Jordanian society and the difference of customs
and traditions and to preserve the image of their historic Homeland while they
are at Diaspora, and the main trends of the links of the Diaspora people with
the North Caucasus. The study covers the period from the late 18th century to
the early 21st century. I have recently read that “any society is not free of unwanted
behavioral practices such as behavioral lying, theft, stinginess, treason and
cowardice, but they remain meanings and unacceptable negative values in the
common cultural reference, and what includes of systems of meanings, concepts
and values. Even who ever is implementing them, would not declare that, and does
not boast of being doing that, so as not to be subject of the social stigma or
lose membership in the social body, and in the worst circumstances, he will seek
other interpretations and definitions that would be evolved from rejected
socially accepted meanings, by calling cowardice for an example, wisdom and
prudence or realistic and rational, stinginess, to be economical and orderly,
and theft, a restoration of forbidden rights, and so on, so firth. This means that
the community is still invoked to a system of uniting common values, even if
some practical practices divert from its course”. The writer continues,
"but the great disaster, if meanings turn to their opposite meanings: when
lies, cowardice and treason turn to be acceptable values that do not disgrace
its instigator or make him hideaway by doing that but even may brag for it. Then,
the "sterilization" becomes a charge that those who are “tainted” with
deserve the sentence of expulsion and exclusion. Didn’t Loa’s people in say in their
prophet and those who are with him (Get them out of your village, they are
people who are sterilized) Al-A’araf, verse 7. Only then comes the terrible
conclusion, and the group becomes a “news story of the past”, and as if they
had never been. The struggle on meanings of systems is at the end, a struggle
for existence... Not fringes”. That reminds of the inalienable rights.
Citizens of the Caucasus who did not Migrate and some who Accept the
Call for Status Quo
In the following, some of the points that could be
mentioned in that regard:
* A quote of what the Circassian journalist and
Human Rights activist, Fatima Tlisova had said in the lecture delivered at the
Jamestown Foundation in Washington, DC, during the conference, “Circassia:
Past, Present and Future”, which marked the memory of the Circassian Mourning
on date, 21-5 - in 2007, when she talked extensively on the conditions
experienced and still, the Caucasus in light in the shadow of difficult
circumstances, “Unfortunately, there is no time to pin-point all areas of
national life that the Circassians suffer from the pressure. I often speak with
people who I may consider them as people of precautionary conviction who are
cautious and they say: Come on, understand, things are not so bad, and the
means that we are not now right now at a state of war with Russia, as well as they
add that we must be friends with Russia. This kind of friendship in my personal
opinion is like the friendship between a beef steak and the digestive system”.
In another paragraph continues, that the Circassians are still targeted, "We
are already swollen, but there is the problem of digesting us, however, the
acid in the Russian politics means that the end is not far from Circassians. It
is very important to understand that the reason for Russia's ability to
maintain its position in the Caucasus is exclusively due to the use of force,
intimidation and the threat of the use of force, and we Circassians, thanks to
Russia, we stand on the brink of extinction”.
* There are many of Circassia’s natives who are
planted there (at Homeland) had made different declarations, in which some were
comparable with what Mrs. Tlisova had said, and some of which is consistent to
get along with the official Russian policy, verdict comes from facts and
results because work is measured through results, as there are indications to
the presence of those who describe the deficit, yield, and defeat, as a
historical inevitability that can not be avoided, and accordingly, the effect
will be giving up the constants under the cover of peace that necessarily means
to bow, surrender, loss, and failure to claim the rights that would not be lost
with elapse of time, which is considered of course, “inalienable”, which at the
same time guaranteed by international charters and laws.
* We ought to search and contemplate on what the writer
in Russia and the Caucasus affairs Paul
Goble, and the Circassian journalist Fatima
Tlisova had published about what had happened in the city of Cherkessk, the
capital of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkesiya, according to the current Russian administrative
divisions in the North Caucasus, where
an extraordinary conference for the Circassian People was held in November,
2008, as the date of the conference had been announced and re-programmed
several times. Nearly 1500 Circassian youths from a number of Circassian
republics came to the venue of the conference, where a separate and an
organized forum was held by the youths, prior to the start of the conference.
The attending young people entered the hall of the conference dressed with the
Circassian national clothes, while carrying Circassian flags. After the
ancestral tradition of blowing into a horn, which was usual tradition used in
the past days, to call people to gather in times of imminent danger, which the
youth leader’s speech was welcomed with warm standing ovation, when the Khasa or
Council’s youths started the conference by doing so by the use of the horn.
* In this regard, the Russian media, sometimes
publishes sometimes, that there is a new policy in the Kremlin that works side
by side with the leaders of the Circassian communities abroad (Diaspora) about
the project of uniting Circassia. In particular, that was according to the
Russian political news agency (APN), the entire audience had unanimously agreed on one of the instantaneous
demands, which is that the Circassian youths in the North Caucasus are
directing an appeal to their nation (the Circassian Nation), that denounces the
division of society in the early years of Soviet rule and in accordance with a
decision from Moscow, when Circassian groups were assembled with different
ethnic groups that differ substantially.
* Russian Pravda newspaper on 13 – Jan, published an article for Alexander Born, entitled
"Russia and the Circassians", in which the writer referred to Russian
actions in the Caucasus in general and with the Circassians in particular, where
he says in one of the paragraph: "In view of the potential of the
Circassian capabilities in the world, there is no suspicions that the question
of the recognition of the genocide will be deployed in all parts of the world,
either with the assistance of Russia or without, Circassians, one day will
return to their historic Homeland. The only difference is that, whether Russia
will decide that or take a resolution in this issue, then it will be guaranteed
that Circassians would remain within its structure (within Federal Republic of
Russia), but if such return was implemented or supported by the international
community, that means that Russia will get many complex problems".
* On the recent 6th of April, the well-known
writer Paul Goble on his "Window on Eurasia” site, an article entitled:
“‘Unprecedented’
Russian Pressure on Circassians Radicalizing Young People”, about a forum held in Nalchik that was attended by Circassian
Youth delegates as were described by one of the speakers that they came from “Kabarday,
Circassia, Shapsoughi, Adygeya, Cherkessk, Abkhazia, and all locations that contain
a significant Circassian inhabitants presence”, as the Forum, was preceded by
an “unprecedented pressure” practiced by the Russian power structures against traditional
Circassian organizations, which is justified by the officials in Moscow, by
directing the charge that Circassians support the tendency of separatism, and
to accuse some youths of extremism, who in turn say that they "no longer
trust that the fate of people to be in the hands of ongoing social
organizations such as the Adigha Khasa, “The International Circassian
Association” "which operates based on instructions from the
government", instead of reflecting the interests of the people. The youths
also say they intend to establish a youth national movement in Kabardino-Balkaria,
and to be named, (Dzhe mak), and they suggested that the group would be "the least
marginalized among the various running parties, groups and organizations
between the Circassians in the North Caucasus".
The organizers mentioned that they were "repeatedly summoned to the
Ministry of Interior of the Republic
of Kabardino - Balkaria
and to the Office of the intelligence services (FSB) in the Republic". And
"the Russian Regnum News Agency had carried out coverage of the meeting,
but soon was forced to remove the coverage of its bulletins, with full coverage
on Circassian Internet sites". The article said that, "one of the
other speakers, Yury Shanibov, Professor, who has called for attention to the
problems faced by the Circassians in their attempts to recover the land of
their ancestors, but Moscow made presented the land to other peoples".
But, Mazhid Otizh, a Circassian who returned to his original Homeland from Turkey,
described the problems that he is still suffering and his alike of returnees, to
resume their lives in the North Caucasus, and the problems that he said:
"do not constitute only a violation of the provisions contained in the
Russian constitution, but also of the international law". The article said
that “events that were taking place outside the meeting room, were at least, as
important as the ones going on inside the room”.
* On the same subject also, the Circassian
journalist and writer Fatima Tlisova wrote an article in the North Caucasus
Weekly that is published by Jamestown Foundation, on 17 April, under the title
of (Youth
Activists Unravel Kremlin Status-Quo in the Circassian Heartland: “The Wind of
Freedom is Approaching”!), where she spoke in
her article on a “new and non-traditional role that youth in contrast to what
was known as the traditional agenda, and described the behavior of active young
people (both politically and socially) that has changed, and they expressed
their desire to act as an independent political force representing a new kind
of social activity, and this is contrary to what was customary in the past
rigid adherence to traditional systems, and reliance on the traditional
hierarchy between Russia and the composition of the Old leaders, which was
often relied upon to screen leaders and Circassian decision makers”. " In
the same article she stated that “the Russian news agency Regnum published on
its Internet Website an article entitled: “They want to label Circassian activists as separatists”, which spoke of a Circassian national forum, that was organized on
the fourth of April in the capital of the Republic of Kabardino - Balkaria, but
the article was deleted after about an hour of publication, but this “one hour”
was sufficient to transfer the article to several Circassian sites and had been
published widely on several Circassian Websites, and two days later, the
article was re-published, but where the script was to delete details of which I
spoke about the difficulties faced by young people who wished to attend the
Forum, in which many of them were prevented by security forces on the ground
(to maintain security and public order) and the article dealt with information
published by the official news agencies, which has been characterized by extremely
short and vague in order to cover up the great event”.
* The Russian writer Avraam Shmulvich had
published an article in the Russian language on the Seventh Channel Website,
entitled “Circassia
Government in Exile”, in which he talked about the Circassian Question of
all of its aspects, and dealt in his article, with the sequence of events that
led to the occupation of Circassia, the genocide, and the successive Russian
governments to deal with Circassians, each in their own way, except that the
common factor among them all is the continuation of dealing with the unsolved
case, leading to the emergence of various armed groups, and the possibility of
the development of issues to establish a Circassian government in exile.
* In an interview conducted in the month of April,
with Dr. Musa Shanib, known in Russian as Yury Shanibov, born in Nalchik in the
month of May, 1935, considered that the Circassian World (which includes Circassians
at Homeland and Diaspora), is distributed over a wide geographical area that
includes fifty-three countries of the world, and talks about the start of the
recall of the Circassian tragedy that took place by the end of the Russian/Caucasian
War in the year 1961, and described that as a stimulation for Circassians after
a century of compulsory silence, which has spread to all countries inhabited by
the Circassians; that reminds of the Russian proverb: " Nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”, and continues
that the disaster, which distributed Circassians around the world, may turn
into a positive trend by the consolidation of freedom and homeland, and when
the Circassian Diaspora brings to Motherland the positive experience of
advanced development from fifty different countries.
The Meanings of Yeltsin’s Message
It is necessary and useful to deeply understand
the letter of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin that he sent to the Mountaineers
as per his description, which means in this depiction the Circassians which
must read and deeply understand what is between the lines, where Yeltsin says:
"A call to the peoples of the North Caucasus on the elapse of 130 years of
the end of the Russian/Caucasian War", "old events that bring us back
to more than a century, to the years of strife for the Caucasus and the controversy
between the interests of the Russian Empire, Britain, France, Iran and Turkey,
which each and every one of them bear their respective share of moral
responsibility for the suffering of the Mountaineer peoples (Circassian). The
problems that we have reached us as a result of the Caucasus War, particularly the problem of the return of
descendants of Caucasian immigrants to the historic homeland, should be
resolved at the international level by talks with the participation of all
interested parties". It means that
the solution of the Circassian Question and "the return of the descendants
of Caucasians" home is not the responsibility of Russia alone, but it is
an international responsibility, and the other participating States in the
conflict then, which he called in addition to Russia, Britain, France, Iran and
Turkey, must be involved in the solution, and this is a disclaimer of responsibility
in resolving the Circassian Question, and Russia is the occupying state in the
eyes of international law and then to liquefying the whole issue at the involvement
of other countries in a thorny issue is not do nothing to do with it, and three
of them, are geographically distant from the Caucasus region, this is not to
mention the fact that the Russian State did not make any attempt or initiative
to end the unilateral measures taken in the North-Western Caucasus, as well as
not opening the door of return to the homeland in a truthful way, without
restrictions or broadcasting rumors that the conditions of there are not safe
to intimidate people even think to have a tourist visit, how to return for
permanent residence! He also confirmed the fact as well as the complexity and
disharmony of interests in the Caucasus, pretending he had forgotten that only Russia
had occupied the Caucasus, and still, that continues to dominate the potential,
achievements and resources in addition to the control of its peoples after killing,
wounding and the displacement of millions of its citizens. It is possible in
this manner to consider this action to be negatively suitable with the principle
which states that: “worse than implementing the erroneous principles, is the erroneous
application of the true principles”.
Attempts to Address the Effects of Circassian Genocide
The Russian State Duma and former Russian
President Vladimir Putin, the current Prime Minister, were addressed by the
Circassian Congress through written letters and documents in order to assess
the right things and the recognition of genocide against the Circassian nation
to resolve unsolved matters once and for all, and for Circassian rights to be
restored amicably but to no avail, as Russians preferred stubbornness, and to
ignore the Circassian rights, that made Circassians to turn with their fundamental
demand to the European Parliament, as a letter was sent to the President
of the European Parliament and signed by Circassian establishments and
personalities in Motherland and Diaspora, which was attached by a compact disk
containing copies of documents were obtained from the Russian archives and in
the Russian language, which contains on the command line by the Russian
military leaders to their to implement the orders issued in respect of the
occupation of Circassian homeland and the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing
against those who defended themselves with absolutely personal defensive weapons,
while leaving the vast majority of the defenseless civilian population,
including the elderly, women and children vulnerable to military attacks
performed by organized, trained and well-equipped army with the latest weapons,
which led to intimidation, murder, displacement, displacement of population and
the destruction and burning of villages, towns and communities, properties and
agricultural crops, grains, livestock and horses without mercy or pity or
humanity.
Circassia
is one of the members of the Unrepresented Nations and
Peoples Organization (UNPO),
that is based in The Hague, the capital city of the Netherlands, where its
members are of indigenous peoples and minorities which are not recognized in
the occupied territories and that have joined together to protect and promote
their human and cultural rights in this organization, and to preserve the
environment and to find non-violent solutions to the conflicts that affect
them.
It must be noted here about the fact that
Circassia and the rest of the nations of the North Caucasus, are integral part
of Europe, the European Union got the responsibility in resolving this forgotten
Question, but at the same time, humanitarian one with distinction because of
its negative effects that had reached many.
http://www.eurominority.eu/version/shop/poster-minorities2-big.asp
Future
Prospects and Points Relating to the Fair
Circassian Demands from the International Community on the Rights of the Circassian
Nation:
The Circassian nation that is plundered of its
fundamental rights should not be as Mikhail Naima had said: “Some people are
like a ladder, people climb it up, and descend it down, but it doesn’t ascend
or descend”, where many who are interested in Circassian affairs got to put the
following points into account:
1. Work on the revival of an integrated entity of Circassia.
2. The right of return to homeland, and an
organization should be formed to be able to recover the rights of victims from the
occupying power, in cooperation with institutions and international bodies.
3. Ensure the rights of Circassians, including attaining
the legitimate rights to freedom, human dignity, freedom to choose, and right
to self-rule, therefore it is essential that the Diaspora Circassians should move
to take the necessary steps to give their nation, the strength and the
necessary means to restore the confiscated rights, but the legitimate ones to
self-determination. Some who are interested considered that the multiplicity of
countries that Circassian communities reside at, would be a positive factor of
factors that will affect the course of resolving the Circassian Question.
4. Russian government must bear responsibility for
the crimes committed against the Circassian people during the Tsarist and
Soviet eras, and therefore do what is necessary in such situation.
5. Dealing with the achievement of a just peace
for the Circassian nation in accordance with the "Universal Declaration of
Human Rights", and human high-quality examples of freedom and equality, so that investigation
should be carried out on the crimes of genocide and deportation exerted by
Russia against the Circassian people. An organization or an institution should
be formed for recovering the rights of victims along with the international
institutions and bodies, or by their attentiveness.
6. As a result, because all the people were
subjected to genocide and forced deportation, where it seemed a terrible
conspiracy at that period between Tsarist Russia and its partners at the time,
according to the appeal of former
President Yeltsin, in his appeal to the peoples of the North Caucasus on
the elapse of 130 years of the end of the Russian / Caucasian war, and what Yeltsin
had stated about the responsibility of the liability exposure of the total
population of persecution, genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced deportation, where
it seemed a terrible conspiracy between the occupying State and its partners in
the plot at that time.
7. The discussion of the sanctity of the place of
the location of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014 (the land and the graves of
those who have been subjected to the genocide), that is going to be set up in Sochi.
8. To address issues of genocide, ethnic cleansing
and all sorts of war crimes committed against the Circassian people that led to
the forced deportation to the compulsory exile, which includes Circassians
forcibly deported from their Homeland and moreover, the claimant must establish
the following:
• The recognition of genocide.
• Formal apology for the Circassian nation by the
Russian state.
• Fair compensation in accordance with the
decisions taken by decision-makers in this area.
• Emphasis on Circassian identity and the rights of
the Circassian human being.
• The right to return to Motherland.
• The exercise of the right to self-determination
in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
And the restoration of usurped and confiscated
rights, are derived based on the International
Law, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and the Charter of the United Nations
in addition to the resolutions of the Special Political and
Decolonization Committee formed by the General Assembly of the United
Nations, for the need to observe the legitimate rights to self-determination and the right of
freedom of choice.
Expression of Difference is not by Abuse and Conflict
It is time to open a logical meaningful dialogue
in the Circassian communities in all their presence in all locations, not the stagnated controversy as the just
Caliph Omar Ibn El Khattab had said: "If God wants worse for people, they
will be given the controversy and will be prevented from work", so that
every concerned one who is interested in
the Circassian worry, that people are not in school or "nursery and
kindergarten for children" so they must all act according to established platform
and orders and do not divert from, but the logic illustrates that they have the
ability to think and get in dialogue, where all must act in a spirit of responsibility
and democratic methods to interact in a positive meaningful way in the best
interest concerning the present and future, as well as principles that can not
be averted or avoided, including the Circassian rights, that are inalienable
and non-concessional, not in elapse of time, personal relationships, naive
temptations, simplistic offers, or unjustified squandering. Also Circassian
specialized conferences must be held to discuss the conditions of Circassians
in Diaspora and Homeland, and to compete to win global support for the fair
Circassian Question. I would like to mention here what one of the writers had
said: "A word of adorability or inspiration will never be lost by their
originator, flowers leave some of its scent on the presenter’s hand",
because “human behavior” is as described by Goethe: “the mirror, which shows every
human’s image”. But the timing of the work of any one thing, and the selection
of the appropriate time, as Paul Klodal had said: “I intended to run when I
can, walk until my legs are not strong on the run, and crawl when my feet are
unable to walk”.
