Windsor Star: Murdered Red Cross Workers Not Forgotten
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posted by eagle on November, 2010 as Human Rights
Postmedia NewsPublished: Saturday, November 27, 2010New allegations that a blundering Russian death squad murdered six Red Cross workers in war-torn Chechnya in 1996 -- including a Canadian nurse -- have prompted the Geneva-based humanitarian agency to probe the claims with government officials in Moscow. The nighttime killings of 51-year-old Vancouver nurse Nancy Malloy and five colleagues from Norway, New Zealand, Spain and the Netherlands -- deaths that the International Committee of the Red Cross and the rest of the global humanitarian community condemned at the time as "assassinations" -- remain unsolved. But the atrocity was widely presumed by expert observers to have been a deliberate act by Chechen insurgents bent on achieving independence from Russia at all costs. This week, however, a former Russian special forces officer claimed that the massacre 14 years ago at the Red Cross hospital near Grozny was, in fact, carried out by Russian agents ... >> full...
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YAHOO NEWS: Russian Major Claims Special Forces Killed NZ Nurse
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Russian major claims special forces killed NZ nurse
NZPANovember 26, 2010, 7:05 am
A Russian special forces officer, Major Aleksi Potyomkin, has claimed that New Zealand nurse Sheryl Thayer, three other Red Cross nurses and two other workers killed in Chechnya in December 1996 were murdered by his unit and not by Chechen insurgents.
The nurses ran a medical centre in a hospital compound at Noviye Atagi, 17km southwest of Grozny, the Chechen capital. Shortly after a truce had been declared, the nurses were murdered in their beds. The hospital guards, in line with International Red Cross policy, were not armed.
The Telegraph newspaper in London reported Potyomkin said the special forces unit had seen Chechen insurgents enter the compound and went in after them.
He said the killing of the nurses was a mistake and recalled the leader of the unit radioing back to say there had been a mistake: "No beardies -- only ... >> full...
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CHECHENPRESS: TO MR. RICHARD SULÍK, A SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC...
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
APPLICATION TO MR. RICHARD SULÍK, A SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, FROM Algirdas Endriukaitis and Rytas Kupcinskas
MR RICHARD SULÍK
SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC
ON THE EXTRADITION OF CHECHENS TO RUSSIA
15 November 2010 We have received information that, on a demand from Russia, the Slovak Republic is going to extradite young Chechens Ali Ibragimov and Anzor Chentiev. We believe that such a move should be thoroughly evaluated from a legal, political and moral perspective. We have received similar requests from Russia, however, due to our systematic valuations, Russia’s requests have not been satisfied by Lithuania.
It is, first of all, a known fact that in 1994 and 1999 Russia started two wars against Chechnya using all types of military forces. During the wars, human rights were being violated on a mass scale, war crimes and crimes to humanity were being committed and over 200 000 people were ... >> full...
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CHECHENPRESS: Appeal To Immigration Court Of The Kingdom Of Sweden From International Human Rights Group
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Appeal to Immigration Court of the Kingdom of Sweden From International Human Rights Group
We at the International Human Rights Group have gotten an appeal from a Chechen asylum seeker Ruslan Djamayev, b.1978, who has recently faced a threat of extradition to the Russian Federation.
Here is his tragic story:
"I arrived to Sweden with the hope to get here political asylum, because I was persecuted by the Russian special forces as well as by the puppet Kadyrov's regime. I had a close threat to my life. I participated in the first Chechen war under the direct command of field commander Alhi Berdukaev, in subordination of President of ChRI Aslan Maskhadov. I did not participate in the second Chechen war (beg. 1999) against the Russian aggressors and their puppet Chechen allies, but I helped and supported the resistance as much as I could.
In 2002 I was abducted by Federal troops and brought ... >> full...
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Washington Post: Why Can't Russia Solve Its Human Rights Crimes?
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Why can't Russia solve its human rights crimes?
Monday, November 8, 2010; 8:12 PM
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT President Dmitry Medvedev made a show of reacting swiftly to the latest brutal attack on a journalist. Over the weekend he ordered his government's top prosecutor and interior minister to investigate the case of Oleg Kashin, who was nearly beaten to death outside his Moscow apartment; among other things, most of his fingers were broken and one was torn off at the joint. "The criminals must be found and punished," Mr. Medvedev tweeted. This would be encouraging - except for the fact that those responsible for past beatings and murders of Russian journalists and civic activists have never been held accountable, despite similar presidential pledges. Take the case of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison one year ago after being detained and abused by a group of senior officials he had accused of corruption. Mr. Medvedev ...
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