1. Russia�s Chechnya Abuses Fan Terror: Group
�The Chechnya crisis is the worst humanitarian crisis
in the region,� said Rhodes
SOFIA , September 26 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies)
- An international rights group on Saturday,
September25 , accused Russia of encouraging terrorism
through its human rights abuses in Chechnya and
rejected Moscow 's claims that the decade-long
conflict was an internal affair.
�The Chechnya crisis is the worst humanitarian crisis
in the region,� AFP quoted Aaron Rhodes, the head of
the Vienna-based International Helsinki Federation, as
telling a press conference in Sofia , Bulgaria.
There have been �hundreds of thousands of murder and
deaths during the last 10 years,� he added.
The small mountainous republic pf Chechnya has been
ravaged by conflict since1994 , with just three years
of relative peace after the first Russian invasion of
the region ended in August 1996 and the second began
in October1999 .
At least100 , 000Chechen civilians and10 , 000Russian
troops are estimated to have been killed in both
invasions, but human rights groups have said the real
numbers could be much higher.
�Not Terrorists�
The vice president of the International Helsinki
Federation, Uli Fischer, said that �democratic process
simply does not exist� in Chechnya.
�Chechens are not terrorists as a whole, there is a
tragedy of long suppression,� he said.
Rhodes added that there were war crimes being
committed in Chechnya.
�The responsibility is with the Russian government,�
he said, warning that �the implications of this crisis
are major, first of all terrorism.�
�Human rights violation is not an internal affair.
Encouragement of terrorism reflects on Europe, on all
civilized countries,� Rhodes said.
On Friday, September24 , pro-Russian Chechen officials
joined with rights campaigners in slamming widespread
abuses against civilians in Chechnya at a conference
held in the Chechen capital Grozny .
Human rights groups have frequently accused Russian
soldiers of committing aggressions and abuses in
Chechnya in the two invasions.
International human rights watchdogs said in a joint
statement (see below: 2.U.N. Must Slam �Gross� Rights
Abuses In Chechnya: Groups) released in April that
rape, torture and extrajudicial executions by Russian
troops have become everyday occurrences in Chechnya.
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2. U.N. Must Slam �Gross� Rights Abuses In Chechnya:
Groups
The Russian troops are practicing �Stalinist�
terrorism in Chechnya, Yusupova
NEW YORK, April 10 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) �
The United Nations and the international community
should denounce in a strong resolution �gross and
systematic violations� of human rights in Chechnya at
the hands of Russian troops and pro-Moscow Chechen
militias, said the world�s major human rights
organizations in a joint statement.
Rape, torture and extrajudicial executions by Russian
troops have become everyday occurrences in Chechnya,
said the statement released Thursday, April8 , by
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Medical
Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, and the
Moscow-based Memorial.
On Saturday, April10 , the bodies of nine men bearing
gunshot wounds were found in a ditch in southeastern
Chechnya. The dead are believed to be abducted by
unidentified men last month, the Ria-Novosti news
agency reported.
The British charity Medical Foundation for the Care of
Victims of Torture will release next Thursday, April15
, a separate report providing the first-ever
substantial body of reliable evidence on the use of
rape in Chechnya.
The Russian troops are practicing �Stalinist
terrorism� in Chechnya by carrying out massive
�enforced kidnappings� for entire families to force
Chechen fighters to lay down their arms, said Lida
Yusupova, coordinator of the Grozny office of
Memorial.
The rights groups called on the government in their
statement of the Russian Federation to take immediate
steps to bring an end to the human rights abuses in
Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia.
�The climate of abuse and impunity in Chechnya is now
spilling over into Ingushetia and threatening
stability there too,� said Anna Neistat, Moscow
director for Human Rights Watch.
�A resolution on Chechnya and Ingushetia will send the
message that these continuing abuses must stop.�
The statement also condemned a �new and increasingly
militant armed group� under the command of the son of
Chechnya�s President Ahmad Kadyrov, popularly known as
the Kadyrovtsy.
They blamed the militias for an increasing portion of
the �disappearances� as many Chechens say they fear
the Kadyrovtsy more than federal troops
Last month, Germany�s Commissioner for Human Rights
Policy Claudia Roth pointed the accusing finger for
the growing abuses at Russian security forces and the
militias of the son of Kadyrov, who assumed power
last October amid cries of foul playing and rigging in
the elections.
Memorial said that 41 people were missing after being
abducted in Chechnya during the first three months of
the year.
A total of 78 people were kidnapped in the Caucasian
republic during that period, the group said.
E.U. Bill
A Chechen mother cries over the kidnapping of her son
The joint criticism came as Russia hit out Friday,
April9 , at the European Union for asking the United
Nations to condemn human rights abuses in Chechnya.
Moscow claimed that the E.U. was encouraging
�terrorists� in pressing ahead with the measure,
Reuters news agency reported.
�This is encouragement for terrorists and contradicts
the uncompromising fight against international
terrorism,� Interfax news agency quoted deputy Foreign
Minister Yuri Fedotov as saying.
�The current draft is politicized and we hope it will
not be passed,� Fedotov said.
The expanding bloc presented a draft resolution to the
U.N. Human Rights Commission on Thursday, April8 , to
denounce the appalling human rights abuses at the
hands of the Russian troops in the country.
The E.U. draft resolution also condemns attacks by
Chechen fighters on Russian civilians as �terrorist
acts�.
Last October, human rights groups accused the West of
ignoring blatant and state-sanctioned abuses in Russia
for the sake of improving relations with President
Vladimir Putin.
The U.N. Human Rights Committee slammed in a panel on
November 7 the ill-treatment of detainees under
interrogation, executions and torture in the republic
of Chechnya.
The small mountainous republic has been ravaged by
conflict since1994 , with just three years of relative
peace after the first war between Russian forces and
Chechen fighters ended in August 1996 and the second
broke out in October1999 .
At least100 , 000civilians and10 , 000Russian troops
are estimated to have been killed in both wars, but
human rights groups have said the real numbers could
be much higher.
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Leo Imanov
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