Refugee Camp Display Reminds of the Fate of Chechen Children
posted by zaina19 on September, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/17/2006 12:25 AM Refugee Camp Display Reminds of the Fate of Chechen Children Publication time: 16 September 2006, 18:13
A refugee camp, complete with emergency food, portable medical care and makeshift latrines, opened in Central Park in New York City on Friday, September 15. Missing from the tent encampment were an estimated 33 million refugees around the world whom war, natural disasters and politics have forced out of their homes.
Medecins Sans Frontieres, as it was called by the French doctors who founded it in 1971, erected the 8,000-square-foot display camp in the heart of the Manhattan park as part of a U.S. tour showing how people live after fleeing conflict.
Under a steady rain in Central Park, the dozen tents and shacks sitting on a soggy hilltop offered just a glimpse of the refugees' dismal, dangerous lives. But the human faces in photos assembled for the exhibit spoke of the pain best:
An 11-year-old boy from Chechnya is mentally traumatized after living for years in a camp, a refuge from a war in which civilians have been tortured and raped.
"Living as a refugee is never a choice. People leave their homes as a last resort," said a family medicine specialist at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
But being refugees is still a better choice for most of the children in the Russian-occupied Chechnya. According to incomplete statistics of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria's Government, about 50 thousand Chechen children lost there lives through Russian bombardments, mass executions, tortures, and violence during the two Russian-Chechen Wars.
Unlike some 200 children in Beslan murdered by Russian FSB paramilitary units during the assault of a school, nobody cares about 50,000 children in Chechnya, murdered by Russian terrorists.
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