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Press release
CHECHENPRESS, The Official Information Section, 09/05/08
Official information
The ChRI Prime Minister Akhmed Zakaev was interviewed by the Lituanian Catholic Paper «ŐŐI amzius»(“XXI century”). When answering the question about the potential actions of the new President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in relation to the ‘Chechen issue’ the head of the Chechen government Akhmed Zakaev said as follows: ‘
«To begin with, the Putin era with its attempts to solve the Chechen-Russian conflict by force has come and gone, while the conflict remains unresolved. Secondly, it is the Russian tradition for a new ruler to embark on a new course even if he inherits his sovereign throne from his father. A new approach to the Russian-Chechen conflict could only mean a search for a political solution. As for its prospects in the nearest decades, I am convinced that Russia will change for the better. In order to do this, however, it would cease to be a colonial power which subjugates a dozen or so Muslim nations in the process. In such a scenario Russia could really become a proper member of the civilised international community».
The International Human Rights Group consisting of the following well-known international human rights campaigners: President of the Boston Committee against Ethnic Cleansings Viktoria Pupko, the US; Director of the Chechen Human Rights Centre Majerbek Taramov, Sweden; President of the International Association ‘Peace and Human Rights’ Sajd-Emin Ibragimov, France; Member of Amnesty International Nadezhda Banchik, the US; President of the Marexa stikhning Larisa Volodimerova, Holland; Academician, President of the «Authors and Publicists International Associations» David Kudykov, Great Britain – appealed to the President of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliev in connection with the abduction of the Chechen refugee Yusup Nagaev. Here is an extract from their letter:
«Recently an event took place in Baku of the kind that could only happen in a backward barbarian country and not in the civilised Azerbaijan. A Chechen refugee Yusup Nagaev, born in 1968, resident of the Komsomolskoe village of the Gudermes district of Chechnya and registered in the Baku Office of the UNHCR was abducted in broad daylight. Yusup had been registered by the UNHCR back in 2002 under the registration number 4338. He comes from a family of six. It is worth noting that this was not the first incident of this kind when a refugee simply disappeared in Azerbaijan. According to the reports of Azerbaijani NGOs this is the 19th instance of such a disappearance of Chechen nationals in Your republic. The most tragic case is that of the Chechen refugee Ruslan Eliev, also registered at the Baku Office of the UNHCR, who was abducted by the officers of the Ministry for National Security of Azerbaijan in the centre of Baku in November 2006 and later handed over to the Russian authorities. A few days later Eliev’s decaying corpse was found in the Samashi forest in Chechnya, mutilated beyond belief. He had had his ribs and phalanges of his fingers broken, his eyes poked out and his ears cut off. We do hope that you would make a note of the facts adduced here and take the necessary steps to free Yusup Nagaev who is held – according to preliminary data, by the Office of the Ysamal District Prosecutor in Baku.»
A communique of combat operations from the Russian-Chechen Front
Last week was marked by new military attacks by the Caucasus mujahadeen against the deployment sites of the Russian aggressors and their henchmen. In the country’s capital a radio controlled mine was exploded by the Chechen fighters along the route taken by a terrorist group. As a result of the operation five national traitors from Ramzan Kadyrov’s gang of bandits were destroyed and two other wounded. The media of the Russian occupying forces reported the incident on Monday. The explosion took place at 11pm on Sunday 4 May in the Maskhadov district of Dzhokhar, in the village of Tashkala. The mujahadeen had activated a radio controlled land mine positioned at the edge of a road and packed with metal submunitions. The explosion took place close to a reinforced detachment of ‘kadyrovtsy’ numbering ten people. Five bandits died on the spot as a result of the explosion, two others received shrapnel wounds.
According to the preliminary data of the occupying forces, the surviving bandits had been slightly shell shocked. Three of the five casualties were members of the gang of the ‘special purpose regiment of the occupation ‘Ministry of the Interior’ named after Akhmad Kadyrov. The gang also included wounded national traitors. A source among the occupying forces had informed the Russian media that the victims of the blast included a civil defence warden, a police sniper of the OVD firing platoon, two police bomb disposal experts and the regiment’s assistant duty officer’.
On 4 May Chechen mujahadeen gunned down two UAZ cars with the occupying troops on board on the Dzhokhar-Argun road near the turning to the occupants’ military base in Khankala. The driver of one of the vehicles, a terrorist from Karelia, was killed. There is no published information about other casualties. In the Vedeno region of the country a special operation by Chechen fighters had led to the destruction of the Section Head of the patrol and inspection service. The special operation was carried out at 1.05am in the Dyshne-Vedeno population centre. The mujahadeen opened fire at the moment when the bandit driving the VAZ-21099 car had almost approached the gates of his house in the Ushaev Street.
According to Russian sources a skirmish took place between mujahadeen and Russian occupying detachments on 5 May in the Urus-Martan region of Chechnya.
Quoting the occupying forces’ command, the Russian media have reported that two ‘putintsy’ were destroyed and several wounded during the fire fights. No other details are reported.
According to Russian sources, yesterday during a traffic accident on the outskirts of Nazran, there was a head-on collision of two passenger cars injuring two ‘putintsy’. It is reported that an occupant from the ‘Armed Forces’ gang had come out on the wrong side of the road which led to the collision with another VAZ car driven by an occupiers’ henchman from the ‘Ministry of the Interior’ gang. Four ‘putintsy’ from the two vehicles were injured as a result of the collision. It is also reported that a ‘Ural’ truck carrying soldiers of the occupation forces on board had overturned in the village of Galashki of the Sunzhen region of Ingushetiya. According to the reports the driver had lost control of the vehicle because of the slippery road conditions resulting in the truck falling into a ditch and rolling over several times. The accident resulted in the death of one ‘putinets’ and injures of various degrees of gravity of another 14 people, with some said to be fighting for their lives.
Human rights situation in the occupied Chechnya
On the night of 5 May the Russian punitive agencies captured a local resident, a mother of three young underage children Aizan Israilova, 40 years old, and took her to an unidentified location. The SHO Information Centre had received the information from the relatives of the abducted woman.
It has come to our attention, that both local and Russian bandits had been involved in the punitive ‘act’. All had been wearing masks during the operation. Israilova’s location and future fate are still unknown.
According to her relatives, the woman’s abduction could be linked to the fact that her husband Yakhya Anasov had been a participant of the armed underground. In 2004 he was detained and released after a large ransom paid by his relatives. After his release Anasov had disappeared.
According to the information received from the residents of the town of Gudermes the day before the report the occupation bodies had exhumed the place of mass burial of murdered citizens, situated at the distance of several kilometres from the town. They had found skeletons of at least six people on the territory of the former biochemical plant in the vicinity of Gudermes. It is still not clear when and in which circumstance the people had died.
Officers of the occupation agencies detained a young man of 30-32 years of age in the Grozny region of the Republic on 2 May. The information has been provided by one of the region’s residents. According to him, the detained came from the village of Zakan-Yurt of the Achkhoi-Martan region of the ChRI. The name of the detained and the circumstances surrounding his detention are still being clarified. According to some reports, the hijackers had accused the man in having links with the Chechen resistance fighters (the SHO Information Centre).
A young man under 30 was detained by the occupants and taken to an unknown location on 5 May in the Maskhadov district of Dzhokhar, according to the information supplied by one of the town’s residents. The circumstances of the detention and the name of the detained person are being checked.
A young man was detained by officers of the occupation agencies on 5 May in the market of the district centre of Kurchaloi. According to eyewitnesses, the bandits checked the man’s documents, searched him and took him away. The cause for his detention is not known. It is known only that the detained man was a resident of the village of Tsotsan-Yurt of the Kurchaloi district of the ChRI (the SHO Information Centre).
The ChRI Ministry for Information, Media and Communications
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