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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Goober Hope" |
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24 Jul 2005 10:16:16 AM |
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When did Russia send troops to Iraq? |
Beslan school children killed by Islamic Terrorists
On September 1, 2004 Chechen muzzies, armed with guns and suicide-bomb
belts, seized a Russian school taking hundreds of children hostage. Over 300
people, many children, were killed by the Islamic Terrorists.
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"Bad" Kennedy girls get lobotomized.
"Bad" Kennedy boys get elected
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| User: "john fernbach" |
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| Title: Re: When did Russia send troops to Iraq? |
24 Jul 2005 11:25:43 AM |
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Russian troops in Iraq are probably not of great concern to the Chechen
terrorists. Russian actions in Chechnya probably were.
FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WEB SITE
Human Rights Situation in Chechnya
Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper to the 59th Session of the UN
Commission on Human Rights
April 7, 2003
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
ABUSES BY RUSSIAN FORCES
ABUSES BY CHECHEN FORCES
THE PLIGHT OF PEOPLE DISPLACED BY THE CHECHNYA CONFLICT
BARRING OUTSIDE SCRUTINY
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INTRODUCTION
Last year, as Russian troops in Chechnya were committing hundreds of
forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, and widespread acts of
torture and ill-treatment, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights rejected
a resolution that would have expressed concern about the Chechnya
conflict. The Russian government interpreted the resolution's failure
as a signal that the international community now endorsed its actions
in Chechnya, and refused to implement the key elements of the
resolutions the Commission adopted in 2000 and 2001.1
Today, with the Commission in its 59th session, the human rights
situation in Chechnya remains abysmal. The March 23, 2003
referendum-hailed by the Russian government as a major step toward
peace and cautiously endorsed by the international community-cannot
obscure Chechnya's harsh realities.2
The armed conflict in Chechnya continues and humanitarian law
violations appear to be increasing. Human Rights Watch research
conducted in the region in late March found that Russian troops had
"disappeared" at least twenty-six people between late December and late
February, or roughly three people per week. This is the highest rate of
"disappearances" Human Rights Watch has documented since the beginning
of the conflict.
In more than fifty interviews with victims and eyewitnesses, we also
documented new cases of extrajudicial execution, torture and
ill-treatment, and arbitrary detention. The Russian government's
long-standing failure to investigate diligently such abuses and
prosecute their perpetrators remains unchanged.
Chechen rebels are believed to be responsible for a continuing pattern
of assassinations of village administrators and other civil servants
working for the pro-Moscow government in Chechnya. This briefing paper
summarizes these findings, and describes government efforts to compel
internally displaced people living in Ingushetia to return to Chechnya,
despite the life-threatening conditions civilians face there.
Unpublished government statistics confirm the high risk of abuse
civilians face in Chechnya. According to an unpublished report on
criminal activity in Chechnya, in 2002 1,132 civilians were killed, or
between five and eight times the murder rate for Russia, and between
ten and fifteen times the murder rate for Moscow.3 A second unpublished
report, providing crime statistics for the first months of 2003, stated
that for January and February there were seventy murders, 126
abductions, and twenty-five cases in which human corpses were found.
Accompanying the statistics were detailed descriptions of more than 185
crimes in Chechnya committed in January and February 2003; in many,
federal forces are implicated.
Throughout the past year, the Russian government sought to limit the
flow of information from Chechnya. It barred outside scrutiny of the
conflict by refusing to renew the mandate of the OSCE Assistance Group
to Chechnya, forcing its closure, and by refusing to arrange visits to
the region by several U.N. special mechanisms. The government also
denied Human Rights Watch access to the region for the tenth time since
the outbreak of the conflict in 1999. Finally, the government harassed
several Chechen human rights advocates, one of whom subsequently
"disappeared" after being taken into custody.
Human Rights Watch urges the Commission to adopt a resolution on the
Chechnya conflict, calling on Russia to issue invitations to the
relevant thematic mechanisms, to agree to renew the mandate of the OSCE
Assistance Group, and to invigorate the domestic accountability
process. A Commission resolution should deplore continued abuses, and
should note in particular the failure by Russia to establish a national
commission of inquiry, as required by previous resolutions, and an
official public record of violations of international human rights and
humanitarian law committed in the conflict. It should also call on the
Russian government to refrain from pressuring displaced people to
return to Chechnya.
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