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05-04-04, 19:14
Chemical Weapons Used Against Chechens
Source: Kavkaz
Foreign Ministry of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI) published the press release of the report of General Representative of CRI Abroad. This morning Health Minister of CRI Umar Khanbiev addressed to the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
«Thank you Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
My name is Umar Khanbiev. I speak on behalf of the Transnational Radical Party, being also a member of its General Council.
Three years ago I spoke in this same room and my speech provoked loud protest from the Russian delegation. I was testifying to Russia’s crimes against humanity and asking for help to stop the genocide of the Chechen people. What changes have occurred since then?
Unfortunately none. The only difference is that the number of people killed, maimed and disappearing has increased by a hundred thousand. This is the price of your lack of action! This is the reality of Chechnya today: concentration camps, torture, extrajudicial executions, kidnappings, trading in hostages and dead bodies, death squads, torture (including torture aimed at destroying reproductive functions) experiments with poisons on detainees, and hidden mass graves. Hostages are being taken for political motives as well.
On some occasions young people have been tied together and blown up in public to intimidate the population. Every type of weapons has been used against the civilians, including weapons forbidden by the Geneva Convention, such as incendiary and air vacuum fuel bombs. We have records of new combined chemical and bacteriological weapons being used.
It is time to understand that Russia is not engaged in an 'anti-terrorist campaign' but in a colonial war and a shameful campaign of terror aimed at the physical and moral destruction of the Chechen people. The mankind recognized it as the disgraceful pages in the history of Russia.
According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Health of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and independent NGOs:
1.25% of the Chechen population has died since the beginning of the war,
2.30% became refugees,
3. The people who remaineed in Chechnya have become hostages and are subjected daily to aerial bombing, artillery shelling, 'clean-up' operations and executions.
President Aslan Maskhadov has repeatedly stated that he is ready to start a dialogue with the international community. Should the UN be prepared to listen to his reasonable appeals, the lives of thousands of children, women and elderly people could be saved.
The international community has refused to intervene and is turning a blind eye to the way Russia has mocked the democratic procedures, while hoping that it would change the situation. Referendum and elections were conducted at gunpoint. The situation is getting worse each day. The Chechens will not accept the quisling Kadyrov. Without a serious international intervention, the Russian leadership will not have the will or the moral fortitude to engage in a serious political dialogue.
Taking note of the Resolution of the European Parliament adopted on February 26, 2004 (recognizing the 1944 Stalin's deportation as an act of genocide and expressing its willingness to consider President Maskhadov's Peace Plan), we request that the UN should also take adequate measures.
Being fully aware that there cannot be a military solution to the Russian-Chechen conflict, which started with centuries-old political disagreements, legitimate President Aslan Maskhadov is ready for a constructive dialogue with the international community and he is offering the political solution that is capable of putting an end to this genocidal war, while both sides will remain satisfied.
The proposal to the UN is: to set up the Interim Administration for demilitarization and democratization of the Chechen society during the period of conditional independence.
While proposal stipulates that independence is not a goal in itself but the only mean of survival in the face of constant Russian terror, the Chechen people must still be offered to have their own state, conditioned by democratization through a transitional period of several years of international guardianship. It will lead to the implementation of legitimate tendencies among the Chechens and will allow the Chechen community to recover from the catastrophe of the past decade, and at the same time it will satisfy the interests of Russia's security, as well as the interests and the authority of the international community. We are assuring you that this is the only way this complicated centuries-old conflict can be solved.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you for your attention».
Department of Strategic Information,
Kavkaz-Center
Source: Kavkaz
Foreign Ministry of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI) published the press release of the report of General Representative of CRI Abroad. This morning Health Minister of CRI Umar Khanbiev addressed to the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
«Thank you Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
My name is Umar Khanbiev. I speak on behalf of the Transnational Radical Party, being also a member of its General Council.
Three years ago I spoke in this same room and my speech provoked loud protest from the Russian delegation. I was testifying to Russia’s crimes against humanity and asking for help to stop the genocide of the Chechen people. What changes have occurred since then?
Unfortunately none. The only difference is that the number of people killed, maimed and disappearing has increased by a hundred thousand. This is the price of your lack of action! This is the reality of Chechnya today: concentration camps, torture, extrajudicial executions, kidnappings, trading in hostages and dead bodies, death squads, torture (including torture aimed at destroying reproductive functions) experiments with poisons on detainees, and hidden mass graves. Hostages are being taken for political motives as well.
On some occasions young people have been tied together and blown up in public to intimidate the population. Every type of weapons has been used against the civilians, including weapons forbidden by the Geneva Convention, such as incendiary and air vacuum fuel bombs. We have records of new combined chemical and bacteriological weapons being used.
It is time to understand that Russia is not engaged in an 'anti-terrorist campaign' but in a colonial war and a shameful campaign of terror aimed at the physical and moral destruction of the Chechen people. The mankind recognized it as the disgraceful pages in the history of Russia.
According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Health of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and independent NGOs:
1.25% of the Chechen population has died since the beginning of the war,
2.30% became refugees,
3. The people who remaineed in Chechnya have become hostages and are subjected daily to aerial bombing, artillery shelling, 'clean-up' operations and executions.
President Aslan Maskhadov has repeatedly stated that he is ready to start a dialogue with the international community. Should the UN be prepared to listen to his reasonable appeals, the lives of thousands of children, women and elderly people could be saved.
The international community has refused to intervene and is turning a blind eye to the way Russia has mocked the democratic procedures, while hoping that it would change the situation. Referendum and elections were conducted at gunpoint. The situation is getting worse each day. The Chechens will not accept the quisling Kadyrov. Without a serious international intervention, the Russian leadership will not have the will or the moral fortitude to engage in a serious political dialogue.
Taking note of the Resolution of the European Parliament adopted on February 26, 2004 (recognizing the 1944 Stalin's deportation as an act of genocide and expressing its willingness to consider President Maskhadov's Peace Plan), we request that the UN should also take adequate measures.
Being fully aware that there cannot be a military solution to the Russian-Chechen conflict, which started with centuries-old political disagreements, legitimate President Aslan Maskhadov is ready for a constructive dialogue with the international community and he is offering the political solution that is capable of putting an end to this genocidal war, while both sides will remain satisfied.
The proposal to the UN is: to set up the Interim Administration for demilitarization and democratization of the Chechen society during the period of conditional independence.
While proposal stipulates that independence is not a goal in itself but the only mean of survival in the face of constant Russian terror, the Chechen people must still be offered to have their own state, conditioned by democratization through a transitional period of several years of international guardianship. It will lead to the implementation of legitimate tendencies among the Chechens and will allow the Chechen community to recover from the catastrophe of the past decade, and at the same time it will satisfy the interests of Russia's security, as well as the interests and the authority of the international community. We are assuring you that this is the only way this complicated centuries-old conflict can be solved.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you for your attention».
Department of Strategic Information,
Kavkaz-Center