Topic: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. - page 311. (Read 734937 times)

http://www.peacewomen.org/portal_resources_resource.php?id=841
   
Worse Than a War: "Disappearances" in Chechnya- a Crime Against Humanity (NGO)
Date: March 2005
Author: Human Rights Watch
Organization: Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Theme: Human Rights - General
Country: Chechnya

Enforced disappearances in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch urges the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to take urgent measures commensurate with the extreme gravity of the phenomenon. It should adopt a resolution condemning enforced disappearances in Chechnya, urging the Russian government to immediately adopt measures to stop the practice and requiring the government to issue an urgent invitation to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

The conflict in Chechnya, now in its sixth year, is a dire human rights crisis. The Russian government has gone to great lengths to persuade the international community that the situation is steadily “normalizing,” even as in the past year the conflict has shown no sign of abating. Rather, it has increasingly spread to other areas of the Northern Caucasus. Russia contends that its operations in Chechnya are its contribution to the global campaign against terrorism. But the human rights violations Russian forces have committed there, reinforced by the climate of impunity the government has created, have not only brought untold suffering to hundreds of thousands of civilians but also undermined the goal of fighting terrorism. Chechen fighters have committed unspeakable acts of terrorism in Chechnya and other parts of Russia. Russia’s federal forces, together with pro-Moscow Chechen forces, have also committed numerous crimes against civilians, including extrajudicial executions, torture, arbitrary detention and looting. But it is their involvement in enforced disappearances that is an enduring feature of the six-year conflict. With between 3,000 and 5,000 “disappeared” since 1999, Russia has the inglorious distinction of being a world leader in enforced disappearances.

This briefing paper argues that the pattern of enforced disappearances in Chechnya has reached the level of a crime against humanity. It shows that, as part of Russia’s policy of “Chechenization” of the conflict, pro-Moscow Chechen forces have begun to play an increasingly active role in the conflict, gradually replacing federal troops as the main perpetrators of “disappearances” and other human rights violations. It reflects forty-three cases of enforced disappearances that occurred in 2004, which Human Rights Watch documented during a two-week research trip to Chechnya in January-February 2005.Human Rights Watch has submitted thirty-six of these cases to the Russian government, requesting that it disclose information on the whereabouts or fate of the “disappeared” individuals and hold the perpetrators responsible. We have also submitted the cases to the U.N. Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, asking that they raise these cases with the Russian government. These cases are appended to this briefing paper.

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_22/US-invested-5-billion-in-democracy-promotion-in-Ukraine-Nuland-2615/

There is no need for any proof. Nuland herself told that in the public and every media outlet in the world carried that story on their front page. Watch her saying that in public:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2fYcHLouXY

Saying that Russia attacked Chechenija is a bit absurd, as Chechenia is also Russia. Russian reacted to the acts of insurgent terrorism, in a similar way that Yugoslavia was reacting to KLA. There are at least 4 parties to the Chechen conflict - the picture is not a simple "bad Russian, saint Chechens". The name of Berezovskij crops up very often in the context of arms-deals in Chechenija, and the Western weapons were a regular trophies when insurgent bands were eliminated.

And I also mentioned it before that I know some Chechen refugees who fled not from Russians, but from Chechens because of refusing to shelter and provide for "the mountain men".

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9014.html

Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War
Emma Gilligan

Terror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era--one that has yet to be fully acknowledged by the international community. Drawing upon eyewitness testimony and interviews with refugees and key political and humanitarian figures, Gilligan tells for the first time the full story of the Russian military's systematic use of torture, disappearances, executions, and other punitive tactics against the Chechen population.

In Terror in Chechnya, Gilligan challenges Russian claims that civilian casualties in Chechnya were an unavoidable consequence of civil war. She argues that racism and nationalism were substantial factors in Russia's second war against the Chechens and the resulting refugee crisis. She does not ignore the war crimes committed by Chechen separatists and pro-Moscow forces. Gilligan traces the radicalization of Chechen fighters and sheds light on the Dubrovka and Beslan hostage crises, demonstrating how they undermined the separatist movement and in turn contributed to racial hatred against Chechens in Moscow.

A haunting testament of modern-day crimes against humanity, Terror in Chechnya also looks at the international response to the conflict, focusing on Europe's humanitarian and human rights efforts inside Chechnya.

Emma Gilligan is assistant professor of Russian history and human rights at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003.

Please give me a source or some kind of link to a site that will confirm those informations. You are telling me that Obama and other spend
5 bilions but do You have proof? As for propaganda I could ask You the same thing

That depends on how much propaganda you are hearing. The Russians attacked Chechenya only after the rebels invaded the neighboring republic of Daghestan and captured a few villages. Before that they killed tens of thousands of Slavs and drove out around 300,000 of them, but Yeltsin was not much bothered about that.

Following the same logic, what would you say about the standoff between the American Indian Movement and the US federal troops in Wounded Knee, South Dakota (in 1973)? The Americans had earlier invaded the land of the Sioux, massacring 90% of them. Then they entered in to a treaty, which was violated multiple times. The Sioux language was banned and the children were forcibly taken away. And unlike North Dakota and South Dakota, 90% of the land in Chechenya is owned by Chechens. No one is stealing their land.

And regarding Ukraine. Nuland and Obama spent some $5 billion to overthrow the democratically elected government of Yanukovych. Then they installed some Right Sector and Svoboda nazis to the office. And the next thing, they banned the Russian language. Eastern Ukrainians had enough and they decided to breakway from the Kiev junta. And what Putin has to do about this? He is staying out of this conflict. The only foreigners who are interfering is Obama and Nuland.

I've alredy posted that:
And as for Your link, well Russian sources on that kind of topics are not the most reliable (although I cannot say there are not true).

That supposed to be proof? I asked you to show me pictures that is PROVEN to be atrocities made by Russians. And while you desperatey trying to find one, tell me where are 250000 Russians from Chechnya gone between 1992-1995? How about 981 passenger trains that been robbed there in 1992 alone so rail road communication through Chechya was cut for a decade? How about murder, SLAVERY and mass rapes of civilians and journalistsmade by CIA funded jihadists there?

You mean this:
http://rys-arhipelag.ucoz.ru/publ/37-1-0-1200
With massive accounts of kidnappings by Chechen terrorists.

Also interesting that ""Putin's Kremlin has made a fetish of remembering WWII. Funny how they never mention Moscow's partnering-with-Hitler role in starting it. The Soviet Union was not a victim of WWII. They were 1 of the 2 countries that started it. Their thug-partner inconveniently turned on them" - John Schindler."

I do not support any acts of terrorism or any actions against civilians no matter the cause. But in case of Chechenya the first one who attacked was Russia. In Ukraine it's pretty much the same thing, Ukraine people want to be fully independent so Putin decided to send his agents to start a civil war in Ukraine

Ukraine crisis: Putin says referendum on autonomy should be postponed

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/ukraine-crisis-putin-referendum-autonomy-postponed

O please don't make me laugh. There are many informations about war crimes by Russian military
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War#Human_rights_and_war_crimes

@Stalinist, dude, is google banned for you? 

NSWF  https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+crimes+in+chechnya&client=ubuntu&hs=sZT&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hYRqU9XRDMfb7AboloGgCQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw

Crimes in Chechenya? Most of the crimes were committed by Doku Umarov and his dogs. And yes... Right Sector was present there also, supporting the Chechen Islamists in torturing and murdering the Russian soldiers as well as civilians.

Aleksandr Muzychko of Right Sector here, pictured with his Chechen wife after beheading a Russian soldier:

You mean Parubiy, Kolomoyskiy and rest of junta? This is a joke?

There is no any hotlinks there, same was as there was no "Russian crimes in Chechnya". If you insist so much you can provide those photographs you claim looks similar. Will you?

@Stalinist - good photos, looks the same as ruSSian crimes in Chechnya, but please remove hot links, because that is NSFW content

SBU says it has detained the organizer of the #Odessa massacre #Ukraine http://www.ukrinform.ua/.../sbu_zatrimala_organizatora...