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Objet: [tchetchenie] les derniers numÈros de War And Human Rights et
d'autres infos...
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:38:06 GMT
De: "Comite Tchetchenie" <comitetchetchenie@hotmail.com>
RÈpondre-A: tchetchenie@club.voila.fr
A: tchetchenie@club.voila.fr
WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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February 19, 2000
N 152
Interregional Human Rights Network Group
Ryazan Memorial Human Rights Society
www.hro.org/war
subscribe: karta@glasnet.ru
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Our work is not politically partisan. Our digest neither duplicates
the Russian federal government's position nor advocates the positions
of Chechen militants. Rather, our purpose is to present as many news
sources as possible so that readers may form their own judgement. We
seek to attract the world's attention to the mass violations of human
rights in the conflict.
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Stop Tortures in the Chernokozovo Filtration Camp
On February 19, Human Rights Watch brought an official accusation
against the guards of the Chernokozovo filtration camp in Chechnya.
In its accusation it claims that the guards systematically beat,
torture, humiliate and even rape the detained in the filtration camp.
In her interview to Radio Liberty, Human Rights Watch representative
Ratchel Danber said: "We have already interviewed three men, who were
detained in these filtration camps. What they told us, I must admit
that we questioned them separately during very long talks, and so,
what these three men said individually completely matched. They told
us about terrible things that we had already heard about during the
first Chechen war. On their arrival to the camp, the guards usually
make the detained to run through a passage formed by men. They beat
the runners by tricks and even by an iron hammer. They told about
rapings of women as well as men, told about tortures and beatings.
They told about the conditions in which they had to live, that are
just unbelievable.Isa, 21-year-old Chechen men, told that he and
other 10 men were brought to Chernokozovo by a truck on February 17.
When they got out of the truck, they had to run through a passage of
guards (some 20 meters). The guards were holding rubber sticks.
"When I was running through this passage, the guards were beating me
with sticks," Isa says. Then, he was undressed and the guards, who
seemed to fancy his clothes, took them form him. For about a week, he
had to be in a cell half naked. All the three former prisoners say
that they were tortured and beaten during interrogations.
Twenty-four-year-old Akhmed says that every time during
interrogations, he was beaten by men in masks. Before entering the
room, where these interrogation sessions were held, Akhmed was asked
to lie down on the floor, creep along it and say: "Officer, thank you
for accepting me. I have crept here upon your order."Both prisoners
say that the guards periodically injected tear-gas into their cell
and made prisoners to stand with hands up through nights. All three
of them tell that they witnessed rapes. Thirty-eight-year-old Vakha
gave a detailed evidence on two cases of raping in the filtration
camp. On his second day after he was brought to Chernokozovo, he
heard shouts of a 42-year-old woman, the mother of four children from
the village of Tolstoi-Yurt. This woman was delivered to the camp
together with him. The guards were beating the woman. "They were
beating her for 15 minutes, then there was silence for some half an
hour. Then the woman began begging not to touch her. The soldiers
were just scolding...All this went for quite a long time. We realized
that they had raped her, "the Chechen says.The former prisoners also
give evidence about rapings of men.
Human Rights Watch calls on the Russian authorities to stop
humiliation of prisoners in filtration camps and to let international
observers into these camps, so they will be able to watch Russian
soldiers' conduct there.
The Washington Post newspaper published an article on the same
subject in its issue of February 19. Its reporter from Narzan also
gives evidences by former filtration camp prisoners. All these former
prisoners were released after paying bribes. The reporter writes:
"It is almost impossible to hold an independent investigation of what
is going on there, the Russian military has limited entering to
Chechnya. Officially sanctioned trips of journalists there are being
escorted by Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service forces.
The Kremlin has refused to allow observers from US, High UN Human
Rights Commissioner and OSCE to filtration camps. The International
Red Cross Committee was also denied to visit Chechen prisoners.
"The Information on Refugees Was Announced "Secret"
Ilias Timishev, juridical department head of the Committee on Human
Rights in the Chechen Republic, told editors of the issue "War and
Human Rights" on February 18 that his non-government organization
receives many reports by Chechen refugees about abuses by the
Migration Office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). Human
Rights Committee Head Khasan Enginoyev turned to KBR Migration Office
Head Kalov with a request to give him an information about the
people, who applied for getting a compensation for their lost
household in Chechnya. On February 18, the Migration Office refused
Engonoyev in his request.
According to Kalov, such information cannot be given out as "it is
classified."
The Situation of the Chechen Refugees
Radio Liberty reporter Oleg Kusov reported on February 18 that Grozny
is still being blocked by Russian Interior Ministry and special OMON
forces. It is also difficult to move along other roads in Chechnya.
Tens of thousands refugees cannot get into their villages. That is
why the information on victims among civilians and the state of
deserted houses is being gathered in refugee camps in Ingushetia.
People have to cover hundreds of kilometers by foot in order to
reach camps . Only they can tell their country-fellows what is really
going on in their villages. In Karabulak refugee camp Soglasiye
there is a board, where one can get read casualty lists. Refugees
from Grozny, Samashky, Alkan-Kaly give concrete evidence on detention
of citizens of their villages by Russian soldiers. Refugees say that
the military release the detained from filtration camps after they
receive from 300 to 1000 dollars in bribes.
Today, refugees from the Shatoisky region came to the refugee camp
Soglasiye. They say that the military do not let hundreds of
residents out of the mountainous villages of Benoy and Varandy while
they are being bombed and shelled by federal aviation and artillery.
Red Cross and Red Crescent Help Refugees
The Social Information Agency reported that early in February, the
Red Cross Committee appealed with an annual request for a grant of
41 million Swedish franks (US$25 million) for the purpose to finance
its activities in Russia. Seventy-five percent of these funds will
be spent on continuation of the an aid program to people suffered in
the Chechen conflict. In four months, the International Red Cross
Committee has rendered its aid to 213 252 Chechen refugees staying in
Ingushetia that are registered by the Migration Office.
In 137 villages situated in Ingushetia, 51 879 refugees received food
parcels. Five hospitals in Ingushetia received aid for 715 injured.
Six auto-tanks bring daily from 100 to 150 cub. meters of water to
nine places, not only to r efugee camps but also to other areas
densely populated by refugees.
In Dagestan, 69 392 people were rendered medical aid, 1205 refugees
in Chechnya, 3500 people in North Ossetia, and 3430 of them in
Kabardino-Balkaria were also treated.
What Is Going on at Block Points in Chechnya
Radio Liberty reporter in North Caucasus Khasin Raduyev interviewed
Chechen refugee Ruslan Kasayev, who has just got to Ingushetia:
"People are being treated terribly. The goal is to humiliate and
insult them. I witnessed how the military two women, who, to my mind,
had no any relation either to military actions or to fighters. They
also arrested another four men and took them away to unknown
direction. They confiscated three cars, two buses and two trucks.
The trucks were loaded with tanks, where civilians usually were
delivering water.
Federal troops in Chechnya should more work with local residents and
their own manpower, as it occurs that civilians, who have never hold
weapons, are being insulted and taken to filtration camps. As a
result, they return invalids from these camps and this make them
take weapons against their will."
"Mini-Afghanistan at the Russian Territory"
Radio Liberty reporter in Washington Irina Lagunina took an interview
from well-known Russian human rights activist Sergei Kovalev: "I
think that at present, Russian human rights activists and
international human rights organizations can use only one very
standard but quite effective method. They should knock at all doors,
continuously express their concern and make pressure on the
authorities. The government in the story with Babistky is all the
time trying to cover the traces. One should not let them do so...The
future of Chechnya - have a look at Afghanistan - you will see the
future of Chechnya. We all have created this situation, 'a
mini-Afghanistan' at the Russian territory. A non-stop partisan war
will go on in the republic, a continuos guerrilla war that one
cannot win. There is only one way to stop this war, it is genocide.
And we are already balancing on the verge of genocide. I don't know
when we shall cross this shaky brink if we ever risk to do so..."
"Journalists Should Return From the War"
The Glasnost Protection Fund and a group of journalists from St.
Petersburg disseminated a statement with an appeal to support a
protest action called "Journalists Should Return From the War" that
will be staged on February 25.Exactly five years ago, on February 25,
1995, the two journalists of St. Petersburg newspaper Nevsoye
Vremya, Maksim Shabalin and Feliks Titov, went to a regular business
trip to Chechnya and did not return. Since then, nothing has been
known about their fate. Many newspapers, from St. Petersburg as well
as from Moscow, repeatedly wrote about disappeared Max and Felix and
about searching them by journalists of Nevskoye Vremya and by their
colleagues from other newspapers. However, up till now, there is no
evidence either on their death or that they are being kept, as their
relatives still hope, hostage by fighters.
An absurd story with Andrei Babistky, who actually had helped much in
the search of Shabalin and Titov, is a sad fact signifying that 'a
journalist list' cannot be considered over. The organizers call on
journalist to join the action and publish a photo of Maksim and
Fellix (it will be made available) in their newspapers on February 25
together with a small article on what a big price our media have to
pay for the possibility to write truth in Russia.
Aid to Military Hospitals
The International Red Cross Committee delivered surgical and
first-aid facilities for 840 injured in military hospitals of
Nalchik, Mozdok and Kislovodsk. This was reported on February 18 by
the Social Information Agency.
Wounded Servicemen Need Money on Treatment
In order to collect necessary funds, the Voroezh Charity and Health
Fund together with the city's Department for Social Policy decided
to hold a charity concert. The best dance and singing groups of
Voronezh will take part in this concert. Sponsor organizations have
already bought out some part of the tickets that cost 10 to 50
rubles. Fund employees say:
"If the total sum of tickets' sale is more than 50 thousand rubles,
we shall buy a facility for extracting splinters from wounds for a
hospital, if the sum is smaller, we shall buy expensive medicine,
the major part of which will make up strong antibiotics. "One hundred
injured soldiers in Voronezh hospitals need not only money but also
enough time. Out of 5-6 months required for recovering,
unfortunately, they can spend only a half of the term. As they will
be soon replaced by another group of wounded soldiers.
"There Is an Alternative to Violence!"
The new cruel war in Chechnya has made many non-government
organizations to reconsider their attitude towards the current
situation, turn to researching techniques and methods of violent
actions. One of the heads of the project "Alternative to Violence",
Raffi Aftandelyan, said on February 18 that on February 25-27, in
Moscow, "an international team will hold a seminar on finding ways
for a peaceful solution to conflicts and complex situations. The
seminar will be held in a form of practical workshops and play games.
For more information, please call: 426-3532, pager 974-23-33N.
426-3532E-mail: brynza@glasnet.ru
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See "War and Human Rights" on the Web: www.hro.org/war
Information digest prepared by the Interregional Human Rights Network
Group and Ryazan Memorial Human Rights Society
Edited by Andrey Blinushov
Technical Editor - Julia Sereda
Translated by Inese Lukoshiavichene
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With use of information from: Radio Liberty, Radio Echo of Moscow,
Deutsche Welle, BBC, newspapers: Express-Chronicle, Le Monde,
ANP-RUSNET, Web-sites Lenta. ru, Russian DEADLINE, Kavkaz-center,
Gazeta. ru, Inopressa. ru, agencies: Associated Press, Interfax,
ITAR-TASS, Netherlands Press Agency, Agency of Social Information, RIA
Novosti, Reuters, Rosinformcenter, TV companies: NTV, ORT, RTR, CNN,
Amnesty International, Memorial Society, Human Rights Watch, Civic
Cooperation Society, Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers,
Glasnost Defense Foundation, own information.
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Sincerely,
ANDREI BLINUSHOV
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Karta/Memorial/Human Rigts Network,
Ryazan, Russia
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Stop war in Russia:
www.hro.org/war
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February 18, 2000
N 151
Interregional Human Rights Network Group
Ryazan Memorial Human Rights Society
www.hro.org/war
subscribe: karta@glasnet.ru
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Our work is not politically partisan. Our digest neither duplicates
the Russian federal government's position nor advocates the positions
of Chechen militants. Rather, our purpose is to present as many news
sources as possible so that readers may form their own judgement. We
seek to attract the world's attention to the mass violations of human
rights in the conflict.
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Manifestation Against the War in Chechnya
The Anti-War Actions Committee invites all those concerned to express
their protest on February 19 against the bloodshed in North
Caucasus. The Committee says in its statement:
"Despite Grozny's takeover and victorious reports by the generals, a
considerable part of the society still does not support the military
operation in North Caucasus. And from passive contemplation, many of
them turn to active steps.On February 19, on Saturday, a
manifestation will be staged in the Moscow center to protest against
the Chechen war. It will begin at 14.00 at the Bolshoi Theater
Square (nearby the monument to Karel Marx). After a mass-meeting, the
participants will march to the Solovetsky Kamen (Lubyanka). It is
expected to be the most massive protest action over the last years.
The action's organizer is the Anti-War Actions Committee.
It is made up by representatives of the Human Rights Center Memorial,
the Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers, the Anti-Military
Radical Association, the Youth Center for Human Rights, the Movement
Against Violence, the Democratic Union Party, Human Rights Network,
the Center for Democracy and Human Rights Development, the Anarchist
Anti-War Movement and other organizations.
"The civilized world has learnt to express its protest against
senseless wars spurred by the authorities. Hundreds of thousands of
the Americans marched in the streets to protest against the war in
Vietnam. Protest actions were held across the whole Europe against
NATO stikes of Yugoslavia," says the Committee in its leaflet.
Besides the organizations, members of the Committee, other prominent
art and cultural figures, human rights activists, journalists and
refugees from Chechnya will take part in the action.The Committee
intends to show that by far not all Russian citizens approve the
military operation in North Caucasus. Protesting against the war, the
Committee points out that it condemns terrorism and aggression of
fighters towards the neighboring republics:"We are against the
military operation since the moment when
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