MAY 2009

24 05 2009 Circassians Mark 145th Anniversary Of Caucasus War's End May 22, 2009  NALCHIK, Russia -- The 145th anniversary of the end of the Russian-Circassian war in the North Caucasus was marked on May 21, RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service reports. Kabardino-Balkaria President Arsen Kanokov said in an address about the anniversary that the war was exceptional in terms of its duration -- it lasted from 1763 until 1864 -- and its brutality. He claimed that the incorporation of the Circassians into the Russian state saved them from "internecine fighting and endless wars in the Caucasus." Kanokov said that consequently Circassians are in a position "to build a new life within the single multinational family of peoples of the Russian Federation." Kabardinians are a part of the Circassian ethnic group that also comprises Cherkess, Kabardin, Shapsugs, Abkhaz, Abazins, and Ubykhs.

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To Circassians From Exile…

The second half of the Nineteenth Century, had witnessed the reaping phase of tens, no but hundreds of years of sowing, cultivating, and planting evil, murder, hate, greed, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. The “Russian-Caucasian War” was approaching its end, and the scenes of destruction, burning, looting, mass graves and cemeteries, mass-displacement and mass-deportation of the Circassian Nation, in addition to other nations in the North Caucasus, which reached the peak of evilness, and wickedness in the year that the war had officially ended, that was marked with 21, May, 1864.

The beginning of the Twentieth Century had started to be the end of imperialism in the world, when countries like Great Britain and France attempted to grasp to their colonies, paralleled by trends and demands for end of colonialism, and to restore national independence, liberty, and freedom in addition to condemn ...