Statement of ChCNS on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the USA on September 11, 2001One year has gone since the tragic events in the USA. Today the whole world commemorates the day, grieving over the victims of the terrorist attacks. The September 11, 2001 had many consequences. Dozens of states have joined their efforts to fight the global evil and have been taking measures to find and punish the perpetrators of the inhuman action, which claimed the lives of several thousand people.
As a result, the Taleban regime in Afganistan has already been overthrown and the anti-terrorist coallition has deployed its military forces to Central Asia and Transcaucasia.
However, having declared the war on international terrorism, Western countries and international organizations, which should defend human rights and freedoms, have virtually left outside their attention the tragic events in the Chechen Republic, where terror and abuses of helpless civilians have been going on for more than three years.
Russia's military and political leadership, who try to portray their criminal acts against civilians of the Chechen Republic as "fight with international terrorism", has thus far been refusing searches for civilized methods of getting out of the armed conflict. The war which Russia wages against mythical "international terrorists" in the territory of the Chechen Republic has produced hundreds of thousands of killed, injured, disappeared, orphans, half-orphans and refugees. However, the practice of state terror, with which Russia armed herself, is gaining momentum in Chechnya with the international community keeping full silence.
Commemorating the victims of the terrorist attacks a year ago in the USA, one would like to express the hope that the civilized world will think also of the ongoing tragedy of the Chechen nation, which has been experiencing state terrorism, and take great pains to terminate the horrible slaughter in the territory of the Chechen Republic, a part of the contemporary Europe.
The Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Chairman Ruslan Badalov
September 11, 2002, Nazran, the Republic of Ingushetia
http://www.savechechnya.org
Translated by Prague Watchdog.
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