Refugees denied foreign assistance
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posted by zaina19 on May, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/6/2005 12:49 AM 1/5/2005 Refugees denied foreign assistance Azerbaijan's Tax Ministry is trying to obstruct a micro credits programme implemented by the Norwegian Refugee Council, Steinar Gil, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Norway in the Republic of Azerbaijan, told journalists. He mentioned the Norwegian Refugee Council had been implementing programmes to assist displaced persons for ten years in Azerbaijan. These programmes include the micro credits one with $7.5 million already allocated under it. However, the Tax Ministry of Azerbaijan has lately begun to demand that the Refugee Council should pay the profit tax. Gil says this demand is baseless, as the Council earns no profit and all funds paid back are again directed for micro credits. Yet the Tax Ministry has blocked the Council accounts in Sheki. The situation does not only harm ordinary people who receive credits, but also undermines Azerbaijan's image in the eyes ... >> full...
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Starving Chechen women and children call to help them
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/6/2005 2:12 AM Starving Chechen women and children call to help them Six hours was meeting between the Coordination Counsel of Chechen muhajirs (refugees) and representatives of HCFR (High Commissioner for Refugees) of UN, the ministries of settling of refugees of Georgia in Tbilisi. It has been connected to the hunger-strike of the Chechen women and children proceeding the ninth day at humanitarian office. As a result the people tired by discussion have returned to initial positions, and all has come to the end without results. Officials have not given even hope for the decision of problems of muhajirs and participants of the action and their representatives have not left doubts that will continue hunger-strike up to the end. Meanwhile two more families have joined to starving on Tuesday, and also Aishat Salahazhiyeva comes back to the action who was hospitalized several days ago in one of ... >> full...
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Appeal of Society for Threatened Peoples prior to the EU Russia Summit on May 10
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/6/2005 4:39 AM 5.05.2005 Appeal of Society for Threatened Peoples prior to the EU Russia Summit on May 10 Minister of Foreign Affairs Excellency: Prior to the EU Russia Summit on May 10th in Moscow the Society for Threatened Peoples wishes to draw your attention to five basic problems facing the Russian Federation today. The Society for Threatened Peoples appeals to you to address these points in your talks with your Russian counterparts. From our point of view, political solutions must be found for the following problems: Severe limitations of press-freedom must be revoked, racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should be openly addressed and dealt with, persecution on ethnic grounds like in the Republics of Bashkiria, Mari El, and in the Region of Krasnodar need to be stopped, a political solution to the ongoing war in Chechnya needs to be found, and the dangerous spill-over of the war in Chechnya ... >> full...
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Twelve flee from ethnically motivated hazing
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/6/2005 12:44 AM
4/5/2005
Twelve flee from ethnically motivated hazing
Twelve servicemen of the Akhaltsikhe battalion of Georgia's Defence Ministry deserted the unit last Monday, 2 May.
The deserters are all Armenians, according to the Georgian media, and they ran away from the unit because of persecution on an ethnic basis.
In a talk to journalists, the deserters who are resident in the Akhalkalaki district said they had been severely beaten by sergeants and their Georgian fellow servicemen in the battalion.
"We were beaten for speaking Armenian and being not able to speak Georgian," one of the deserters said. He added money had also been demanded from them.
The Georgian Defence Ministry admits twelve servicemen of the Akhaltsikhe battalion really left the unit without permission. An internal investigation is running, Interfax says.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/799783.html
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Call to save Chechnya from Russia
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/15/2005 4:38 AM
11.05.2005
Call to save Chechnya from Russia
Chechen refugees demonstrated Tuesday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi to ask visiting US President George W. Bush to save Chechnya from Russian «terror». About 50 people, mostly members of Georgia’s small Chechen diaspora, or refugees, gathered at the police cordon set up in central Tbilisi, where Bush was meeting with President Mikhail Saakashvili. «Peace against Kremlin terror," one placard said. «America save Chechnya and Russia from the Kremlin," read another placard. Khizri Aldamov, one of the diaspora leaders, told AFP: «Our refugees and poor people would like to tell Bush that we are not terrorists and that the terrorists sit in Moscow."
AFP
http://www.chechentimes.org/en/refugees/?id=28834
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