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REPRESSED PEOPLES DEMAND JUSTICE
Sun, 13 May 2001
The legacy of Stalin's deportations continues to divide communities in
the North Caucasus
By Alexander Dzadziev and Erik Batuev in Magas
Ethnic leaders across southern Russia have accused the Kremlin of
building a new "tsarist" empire which rides roughshod over the rights
of its minority peoples.
Delegates at the recent Congress of Repressed Peoples concluded that
the Russian government had failed to honour a law passed in 1991 to
protect their rights.
And they threatened to appeal to international human rights
organisations unless urgent action was taken to implement the
legislation.
Held in the Ingush town of Magas, the Congress of Repressed Peoples
brought together representatives from the Balkar, Ingush and Chechen
peoples as well as leaders of the Meskhetian, Crimean Tartar, Korean
and German communities in Russia.
All these groups suffered at the hands of the Stalinist government
which, in 1944, accused ethnic minorities from the Ukraine and North
Caucasus of collaborating with ...
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