Ingushetia no longer welcomes Chechen refugees (+ more on Chechnya)

[HuckleB]

Ingushetia no longer welcomes Chechen refugees

http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/93/374/13060_refugees.html

"The last remaining camp "Satsita" located in Ingushetia designated especially for refugees from Chechnya has been closed, reported by deputy chief of the government of Ingushetia Muhammad Markhiev to "Interfax" Monday. "The "Satsita" camp has ceased to exist," said he."

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Hope scarce in grim Grozny

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/20040610/ts_chicagotrib/hopescarceingrimgrozny

"But spend more than a few minutes on Grozny's main drag and everything comes into focus. Half of the building that houses the Bearcat is missing. On the roofs of other buildings, Russian army snipers warily eye the streets below.

The small stretch of new apartment buildings that Russian television networks use as stock footage to depict a new and improved Grozny are flanked by half-destroyed buildings that the networks edit out. And everywhere in Chechnya (news - web sites)'s war-worn capital, residents talk of a future without work, without security and without a way out.

Many Chechens had put their hopes for a safer, better life on Akhmad Kadyrov, the former separatist fighter who switched sides and became the Kremlin's handpicked leader in Chechnya. His May 9 assassination in a bomb attack at a Grozny stadium dashed those hopes.

Chechens now fear an economic slide and an escalation in violence as rival clans jockey for power ahead of a presidential election Aug. 29."

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PACE: No Way to Check Aug. 29 Poll

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/06/08/016.html

"The ongoing war and dangerous security situation in Chechnya make it impossible to ensure that the Aug. 29 election to replace slain Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov is free and fair, a rapporteur for Europe's leading human rights body said in an interview published Monday."

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Chechen leader pledges war on rebels' families

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09593154.htm

"Ramzan Kadyrov, the son of Chechnya's slain pro-Moscow president, pledged on Wednesday to target rebels' families in a new hardline attempt to end more than a decade of conflict with separatists.

Rights groups say the thousands-strong militia under Kadyrov's control already follows such a policy."

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Envoy speaks out over abuse in Chechnya

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5C27D2B0-B049-4BFF-9BC1-9D80DE9CC285.htm

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Slovak woman aid worker missing near Chechnya

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10270768.htm

"A Slovak woman aid worker has been missing for more than a week in southern Russia near the turbulent Chechnya region, Slovakian diplomats said on Thursday.

Miriam Jevikova, 28, was last in contact with her employer, the Prague-based Organisation for Aid for Refugees (OPU), on June 1 and failed to turn up for a meeting with friends at a point west of Chechnya.

"She sent a message saying she was being taken away," OPU director Martin Rozumek said by telephone from Prague. He did not say how the message was received.

A spokesman for the Slovak embassy in Moscow said it was undertaking every effort with Russian authorities to ensure Jevikova was found safe."

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When will the world hold Putin responsible?

[nodehopper]

1. thanks for posting these!

[Aidoneus]

2. of all those, you had to use Pravda's headline?

:)

It's not that the Ingush people consider them unwelcome (far from it, more and more are joining their resistance in their own homeland and next door), but rather that the Russian state finds it to be bad PR, it being a signal that they're actually not winning their little crusade. The State itself has been strongarming the muhajiris into going back to Hell for months now to help their propaganda campaign along. They've gone so far as to periodically cut all water, food, power, etc.. to the people there to force them back to the rubble that used to be their homes. The resistance attack on Moscow's Petain of the Month, Kadyrov, set "Pootie Poot" back years. Uday Kadyrov may fit the bill, but all he is good for is the death squads he commands.. bayonets are useful sometimes, but not for sitting.

Thanks for the rest. I've been exceptionally lazy lately in keeping up on things.. a weekly spin by Kavkaz & ChechenPress, a glance at a Yahoo group, and that's about it. NOTHING compared to how much I used to spend reading up.

Putin will never be held responsible for the savage crimes he & the Yeltsin family re-unleashed. Far too powerful and Russia has far too much oil & gas and nuclear weapons for any of the hypocrites to lift a finger. The butcher is even the darling of Western liberals because of their "opposition" to Bush's Iraq crusade.

[HuckleB]

3. Yes, those are the rules of the board.

I'm aware that the headline wasn't accurate, but I followed the rules of the board. And, yes, I felt that the story about the closing of the refugee camps was the lead, with the rest of it support. It shows just how many people have been displaced and continue to be displaced.

[HuckleB]

4. Kick! The world should know what's gone on and is going on in Chechnya.