[IslamCity] World Chechnya Day--In Remembrance of Genocide

[S A Hannan]

Dear  editor/members of the list,   Assalamu Alaikum, I am sending to you a folder on Chechnya from islamonline.net for your information/publication. You may read some of these materials to understand the issue . Shah Abdul Hannan     In Remembrance of Genocide World Chechnya Day By Muslim Affairs Staff Feb. 22, 2006 Click to visit World Chechnya Day Web site February 23, 2006 is the 62nd anniversary of one of the 20th century's worst genocides. It marks the day the Soviet Union, under Josef Stalin, deported the entire Chechen nation to Central Asia, killing massive numbers of the small nation. In the upheaval of Russia's Bolshevik revolution, the communist forces had failed to completely quell the mountaineers’ resistance. After a vicious nine-month war, perhaps the fiercest local struggle in the Russian Civil War, the last Chechen rebel stronghold fell in May of 1921. However, violence continued to flare up sporadically in Chechnya, prompted by the Soviet's agricultural collectivization and repressive security polices, particularly with regard to religion. In the manner of their ancestors, Chechens would form small guerrilla groups and fight from the mountains. After the German surrender in World War II, Stalin accused several of the Caucasian nations in their entirety of collusion with the Fascists. Against these nations he pronounced a sentence of “likvidatsia”: liquidation. On February 23, 1944, tens of thousands of Soviet troops herded the entire Chechen nation onto trains. Chechnya, along with several other Caucasian republics, was emptied out. The plan was to erase the Chechens, their history, and their culture. References to them were stricken from the “Great Soviet Encyclopedia.” Those who could not be transported, such as residents of remote mountain villages, or patients in hospital, were executed. In at least a couple of incidents, people were forced into barns or mosques that were then burned down with all inside. Soviet figures put the number of Chechens and Ingush loaded on to the trains at 478,479. The "official" number dumped, freezing and starving into the Kazakh steppes were 400,478—suggesting 78,000 had died in transit, or shortly after arrival. That death toll is held by many to be conservative. Sixty years later, the European Parliament recognized the mass deportation and exile of the Chechen and Ingush nations as an act of Soviet genocide. The World Chechnya Day Web site brings together an invaluable collection of personal accounts of the genocide, a historical account of the exile, and tracks events taking place around the world to mark the anniversary. In remembrance of Russia’s past genocide of the Chechens, and its ongoing brutal occupation of Chechnya, IslamOnline.net presents this selection of articles from our coverage of the war-torn country. Information, Statements and Interviews Forged in Flame: The Chechen National Character Kavkaz-Center: Interview with Shamil Basayev The Assassination of President Maskhadov Statement by the Chechen Resistance A Conversation With Chechen Author Apti Bisultanov Chechnya: Aslan Maskhadov’s Call to Put an End to the War Analyses  The Never Ending Conflict Maskhadov's Martyrdom & the Future of Chechen Resistance Islam in the Northern Caucasus The Politics of Militancy and Revolt Lineaments of a Nation Russia’s Renewed Quest for Power Attacking Civilians in War Times: Juristic Approach Chechnya: A Humanitarian Situation Turning Worse Op-Ed Memories of Chechnya Hypocrisy and Hatred Chechnya’s Karbala Russia Reaps the Whirlwind Russia’s War Comes Home Russia’s Chechen Harvest Women and Youth in Chechnya The articles posted on this page reflect solely the opinions of the authors. 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