The 23rd of February is the day of great grief of the Chechen nation. 
This day is one of the most bloody and brutal pages in the history of mutual relations between Russia and the Chechen Republic. This day 62 years ago all the half a million Chechen people was expelled from their land and sent to Central Asia and Kazakhstan. The pain of the losses of those far years has not become the end to the bitter fraction of the Chechen people, it has become only a part of our tragical modernity. The genocide of people proceeds, but in a more refined and cynical form.
This frosty February morning of 1944 several hundreds of thousands of Chechens were loaded in cars for cattle and taken away to the far steppes of Kazakhstan. It was a terrible way to nowhere …
	Only a half of the nation could reach the place, the others have remained to lay along the railway of death covered by snow. Tens of thousands were shot down and burnt because of impossibility of their transportation.
	An awful reminder about those days is the settlement of Hajbah in which practically all the population - 700 people - were burnt alive.
For 13 years of deportation hundreds of thousands of old men, women and children met the death on foreign land. It was a result of the accusation of all Chechen nation in illoyalty to the Russian-communist regime.
	Thousands of crippled destinies, endless tears of relatives, hundreds of thousands of anonymous tombs in the steppes of Central Asia and Kazakhstan …
50 years later the distressful Chechen people again appeared to be an object of genocide from the part of the Kremlin regime. Now this regime is painted in bright colors of democracy. A half century later the same enemy has come with war, having replaced only a flag. Again bloody crimes against defenceless old men, women and children are committed. Hundreds of thousands of killed, mass extrajudicial executions, tortures in the concentration camps, abductions and complete disappearances of people, capture of hostages, putting on the whole nation collective responsibility - all this bloody experience which has been saved up by the Russian empire within several centuries, again is applied by her in more refined forms in continuation of genocide of the Chechen people. 
	Today the Chechen people shows resistance to enthralment and protects the right to self-determination. The Russian authorities have refused the policy of decolonization and observance of the international law.
	The right and historical validity are on the party of the people of the Chechen Republic. Violence and blood of Russia are the proof of its injustice.
We are deeply convinced that economic interests of some countries and the political career of a few politicians should not be higher than the destiny of the million nation. Over 300 of thousands of innocent victims from  civilians among of which about 50 thousand children is a sufficient base to the initiation of a military tribunal against the military criminals of Russia. 
	Presence of nuclear arsenals in Russia and blackmail of the world community should not be a serious obstacle in the cause of bringing the Russian military criminals to responsibility.
We believe it is our duty to remind that illusions of certain political circles concerning democratic progress in Russia are a fatally dangerous mistake for all mankind as serious and convincing signs are observed today about Russia’s developing away from well-known principles of democracy. Undoubtedly, it is necessary for the world community to develop mechanisms on which it would be possible to force Russia to observe the conventional rules of behavior in the family of nations of the world. Having called Russia to the immediate termination of the genocide of the Chechen people, the world community in any way will not lose Russia as a partner, and on the contrary, will make Russia thinking seriously about those problems which it could have in the case of failure to meet requirements of a civilized part of mankind.
At the moment the world community should not be afraid of misunderstanding the Russian society as it has become politically more competent and, at the necessary moment, can replace the political leadership which is unable to carry on a civilized dialogue and which is subjecting the nation to the danger again to be isolated. 
This mournful day for our distressful nation we address to the world community with an appeal to use all available means to put an end to physical and moral killing of the Chechen people. 
Attempts to construct happiness of ones on misfortune and sufferings of others are immoral and unpromising. 
We believe it is brutal and immoral to give our small people on worry to barbarians in exchange for promises of these barbarians to construct a democratic society and to create favorable conditions for the external capital.
We piously trust that reason will triumph over madness. 

The participants of a meeting devoted to the 62nd aniversary of the deportation of the Chechen nation to Middle Asia and Kazachstan, held in Vienna on the 18th of February, 2006.