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Calendar of Events

February 1

Panel discussion on Chechnya is hosted by the Committee on Conscience (part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) in Washington DC (more...).

February 5

The first anniversary of the well-documented massacre in Novye Aldi, in the suburb of Grozny. During a so-called mopping-up operation following the fall of Grozny, Russian troops killed dozens of civilians. No one has been held accountable for the war crime.
More info: Human Rights Watch (in English) and Memorial (in Russian).

February 16-17

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) holds its VI General Assembly in Tallinn, Estonia. The General Assembly will be preceded by the conference "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples" on February 15. The conference will adopt the final redaction of the Declaration and submit it to the General Assembly.

February 22

Russian NGOs organize on the Pushkin square in Moscow a rally against the war in Chechnya, which should start an all-Russian campaign for ending the war (more...).

February 23-24 (info in Russian is available here)

Several organizations around Europe and in the U.S. organize demonstrations in commemoration of the Deportation Day (Feb 23, 1944):
- Danish Support Committee for Chechnya organizes a Torch Vigil in Copenhagen(more...).
- The Society for Threatened Peoples will have a demonstration in Berlin (more...).
- The Chechnya Committee of Poland (Komitet Polska-Czeczenia) will hold an event in Warsaw (more...).
- The Chechnya Committee of Paris organizes a demonstration in Paris (more...).
- The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya is organizing a candlelight vigil in Washington, DC (more...).
- Lithuanian Support committee for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria will organise a rally/manifestation in Vilnius.
- Workers Aid and the Chechnya Committee in London are holding a public meeting of solidarity with the Chechens in London (more...).
- The Chechnya Committee of Strasbourg is organising a rally on the site of the old synagogue which was destroyed by the Nazis. Candles will be lit in memory of the deportation of the Chechen people by Stalin, and to commemorate the victims of the current war (more...).

Similar demonstrations (organised by different pro-Chechen organisations) are to be held in Krakow (Poland), Minsk (Belarus), Kazan (Tatarstan), Ankara (Turkey) Tbilisi (Georgia), Orebro (Sweden) and Norway.

February 26 - March 2

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles, will visit Moscow and Chechnya (more...).

February 28

The North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don starts hearing the criminal case against Col. Yuri Budanov, who has been charged with the abduction and murder of a Chechen girl in March 2000 (more...).


P.S.: Announcements for planned or expected events or any other suggestions are most welcome (e-mail: mail (at) watchdog.cz)

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