From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/19/2005 8:50 AM
18/5/2005 Deadly performance boosting
The bodies of six people in military uniforms with marks of gunshot wounds were found on the outskirts of Kurchaloi in Chechnya last week, local residents told the Information Centre of the Council of Nongovernmental Organisations. They said the dead bodies were brought away by local internal affairs personnel and very soon buried. No identification procedures were carried out and all the bodies were buried in black polyethylene bags. The locals believe the hasty burial gives evidence those may not have been rebels, but usual civilians seized earlier and then killed and dressed in camouflage uniforms to be shown as destroyed rebels.
There were similar cases before. Law enforcement agents abducted three young men in Gudermes more than a week ago, according to the Council of Nongovernmental Organisations. Three days ago their dead bodies in camouflage uniforms and with marks of ... >>full...
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/19/2005 8:56 AM
17/5/2005 St Petersburg authorities discriminate against human rights defenders
Scheduled for 15 May, a picket against war in Chechnya, one of those regularly held by the St Petersburg Antiwar Committee at Nevskii Avenue at Malaya Koniushennaia St, was prohibited. This is what one of the organisers, Piotr Raush, told Caucasian Knot by phone. He said the administration of the city's Central district banned the picket under the pretext of "exceeding the standard maximum admitting value" of the place where the picket was to be held. In the opinion of the district officials, no more than 15 people should gather in this place.
About 30 participants in the picket against war in Chechnya still came to the usual place and stood there from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm without unfolding their placards. A commercial advertising action was running on the patch they had been prohibited from ... >>full...
From: MSN Nicknameshml_blue (Original Message) Sent: 5/19/2005 9:41 AM
17/5/2005 Chechnya 'dire human rights crisis,' says HRW
Below are the Russia paragraphs from the Human Rights Watch Torture Worldwide report.
Russia considers its military and policing action in Chechnya to be a counterterrorism operation. Now in its sixth year, the conflict has created a dire human rights crisis. Chechen fighters have committed unspeakable acts of terrorism in Chechnya and in other parts of Russia.
Russia's federal forces have detained and "disappeared" thousands of Chechens whom they suspect of involvement with rebel forces and tortured them in custody to obtain confessions and information.
By carrying out forced disappearances, federal forces in Chechnya attempt to conceal the torture and summary execution of those in their custody, and therefore benefit from impunity for such crimes. "Disappearances" in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity; by some estimates between 3,000 and 5,000 have "disappeared" since ... >>full...
From: MSN Nicknameshml_blue (Original Message) Sent: 5/19/2005 10:32 AM 19.5.2005 21:09 MSK Centre for Integration of Displaced Meskhetian Turks set up GEORGIA, Tbilisi. Centre for Integration of Displaced Meskhetian Turks has been set up by Tolerant Union operating in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It aims to help integrate Meskhetian Turks in Georgia. The Centre is to be funded by the European Commission — the highest EU executive agency.
According to Tolerant Union president Tsira Meskhishvili, an important aspect of the programme is a weekly Pesvebi (The Roots) publication that will tell about the life of Meskhetian Turks in Georgia. The new Centre, its founders say, will do all it can to integrate the Meskhetians as equal members of the Georgian society.
Translated by Olga Sharp PRIMA-News Agency [2005-05-18-George-34] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/5/19/32266.html
From: MSN Nicknameshml_blue (Original Message) Sent: 5/19/2005 10:35 AM 19.5.2005 12:43 MSK Georgian youth organisation intends to help Belarus opposition GEORGIA, Tbilisi (own correspondent). Activists from a Georgian youth organisation plan in the near future to establish connections with the Belarusian opposition. Representatives of the organisation, called Kmara, told journalists a group of activists plan to go to Minsk on 3 July to meet representatives of a Belarusian youth organisation.
A member of the Georgian group, Mindiya Siharulidze, said that at the first opportunity and with necessary funding in place they would go to Minsk. “We plan to hold a series of meetings with the local youth organisation and share our experience”.
According to him, it is planned to send a small group to Minsk which would be joined by other Kmara supporters according to the size of Belarus opposition meetings. Kmara played an active role in the Georgian protests back in November 2003, and ... >>full...
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