May, 28, 2005
The legal estimation of the Chechen independence

The aggression concerning the peoples of the Caucasus began in the 19-th century and, as already the modern history shows, proceeds till now. For the first time the Caucasian people, organized in a state, rendered the most severe armed resistance to Russia led by their Muslim leader Sheikh Shamil. In 1859 he was captivated, and in 1864 the Caucasian territories were completely occupied by imperial Russia , and people were pressed to the mountains. The Caucasian war proceeded since 1817 till 1864, being accompanied with violent imposing of the Russian culture and language. The occupation of the Caucasian land does not mean that the Chechen people have completely lost their culture and aspiration for independence, even being a part of the Russian empire, during all three centuries, peoples of the Caucasus showed feasible resistance often simply passing into an armed one.

The overthrow of the imperial authority as the result of the Bolshevists' revolution led to restoration of independence of the Chechen people. On the 14-th of March, (27, 1917) the Chechen Congress elected the Chechen National Cabinet, which consisted of sheikhs, dealers and officials. Also the Ingush National Cabinet was elected. On the 11 th of May, 1918 , the peoples of the North Caucasus declared the independent Republic of the Mountain Peoples of the Northern Caucasus for supporting of their safety. They published the Declaration of Independence and separated from imperial Russia , which was acknowledged by Turkey , Germany , and France .

It is a very important fact that, even being violently kept by the Russian empire, the Chechen people did not lose their independence legally. They disagreed to become a part of the empire, and according to the international law the status of Chechens in imperial Russia was defined as "independent people, the territory of whom is occupied by imperial Russia ". The position of independent Chechens at tsarism became complicated with genocide, russification and assimilation. The elimination of the tsar as the result of the February revolution in Russia led to restoration of the statehood of the Chechen People. On the 14-th of March, (27, 1917) the Chechen Congress elected the Chechen National Cabinet. Other mountain peoples of the Northern Caucasus also had an opportunity to establish their statehood.

With a view of a safety and development of the state formations, other North Caucasian peoples adjoined the Chechen People and on the 11 th of May, 1918 , proclaimed the independent Republic of the Mountain Peoples of the Northern Caucasus . This state was recognized in 1918-1919 by almost two tens countries of the world, including France , England , Turkey , etc.

The Mountain Republic had practically no peace period of development and was involved in the war against the Bolshevists' empire. By the end of 1919 the Mountain republic had been strongly exhausted by the war and consequently had undergone Bolshevists' occupation. On the 20 th of January, 1920 , Bolsheviks, ignoring the will of the Chechen people and other North Caucasian peoples, violently stopped the independent statehood of the mountain peoples and proclaimed the Mountain Independent Soviet Socialist Republic in the structure of the RSFSR with their strong-willed illegal decree.

In spite of the fact that Chechens had lost their statehood again, they still remain independent and continued their struggle. Not achieving the desirable, Bolsheviks applied the tactics of threats and bribery concerning the Chechen people. The traditional genocide was used as threats, and any kind of autonomy, statehood and the status, but only in the structure of the Russian Bolshevists' empire, was offered as bribery. This policy of Moscow remains permanent for the whole period of time up to now. The declared proletarian revolution was planning to export itself with force, but not for noble purposes, for the pragmatic reasons.

Hence, the Moscow regime intruded into the imperial ex-colony by the Red Army, as the Big Soviet Encyclopedia published in Moscow in 1978, recognizes. The empire was restored with a new government named "The All-Russia Central Executive Committee", which approved to annex the Chechen Republic and Ingushetia and to transform them into the Mountain Independent Socialist Soviet Republic in the structure of the RSFSR by the decree of the 20 th of January, 1920 . On the 20 th of November, 1922 , Chechenia was separated from the Mountain ASSR and transformed to the Autonomous region in the structure of the RSFSR. On the 7 th of July, 1924 , the Mountain ASSR was abolished and the Ingush Autonomous region was established. On the 15 th of January, 1934 , the Chechen and Ingush Regions were joined, as one autonomous region, which on the 5 th of December became the ASSR. The pragmatic reasons were generalized by Lenin in June, 1920, as:

1. The impossibility for communistic republics to continue existing "surrounded with imperialistic forces of the whole world", "without the closest union".

2. The need in "a close economic relations between the Soviet republics".

3. The class essence of the Soviet authority and its international nature, which compel "the masses of the working people" to unite.

It was a basis and paved the way for revival of the Russian empire, but already with another name – the RSFSR, despite of the acknowledgement of independence of the North Caucasian peoples, including also the Chechen Republic , about what we shall specify later. (About two tens of countries acknowledged the Mountain Republic headed by Tapa Chermoev, including Germany , France , and Turkey ).

Genocide and terrorism, was taken by Bolsheviks for the basis of their state policy as an integral part of the Russian imperialism. As the examples show, genocide and terrorism in the RSFSR, the USSR and the Russian Federation is not casual, but it is a deliberate criminal conscious policy. Genocide and terrorism mean a serious corporal or mental harm to any quantity of people, because of their national or ethnic origin, race, religion or economic, political, and a social status. Genocide and terror was made by crusaders and imperialists in many parts of the world, but only Nazis after the Second World War were prosecuted and punished by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Since then, prevention, suppression and punishment of the crime of genocide have not become an indisputable principle of the United Nations, the CE, and the PACE.

The impression is made, that the United Nations is created for the heads of super-states. The CE and the PACE have armed with double political standards in questions of a war, genocide, terror and crimes against humanity. Till now the legal estimation of the coming to power of criminal Ulyanov V.I (Lenin), robber Djugashvili I.V. (Stalin) and their surrounding is not given. The red terror is forgotten (Lenin's, Stalin's, bolshevist's, and the communistic one on the territories of the former USSR), those events, which took place in Afghanistan, in the union republics, criminal actions of the political management of the USSR-Russia in North Caucasian republics are not condemned.

( To be continued… )

Lawyers of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria , Chechenpress, 27.05.05.

28.05.05
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