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Human Rights and War
Plenipotentiary
for Human Rights Terrified with Situation in Chechnya
The
plenipotentiary for human rights in Russian Federation Oleg Mironov told Radio
Liberty: "We saw our servicemen without their arms and
legs in military hospital in Mozdok, with terrible wounds, but in the
refugees we saw a 9-years-old Chechen girl without her leg, and nobody can
make a prosthetic device for her, and a 65-years-old Russian woman, whose
husband was killed, she has three children on her hands, and her arm was
torn off with a bomb explosion…" Oleg Mironov calls upon Russian
and international observers not to limit themselves with visiting only the
ill-famed holdover in Chernokozovo: "I grew up in the Caucasus, began
working as investigator in Zheleznovodsk, and I know very well that there
are two holdovers - in the cities of Pyatigorsk and Gerogievsk. It's
necessary to go there, to speak with people, because the situation in
Chernokozovo is rather fine now. Everyone has an own berth there. I
usually visit a cook-room - there is wonderful food, nice smells, six
doctors - we don"t have so many in our body. But those who are not to
be shown were, I"m sure, transferred to Pyatigorsk." The
plenipotentiary for human rights in Russian Federation described the
prohibition for Andrey Babitsky's going to Strasbourg for the PACE session
as "another mistake of low-ranking bureaucrats". Oleg Mironov
recognized that his views to the situation in Chechnya have much in common
with these of Lord Judd. Refugees
Have No Bread According
to the refugees from Chechnya who have received provisional registration
in the territory of Logovaz settlement in Nazran, since February 1 they
have been denied to receive free bread in local stations of distribution
of humanitarian aid, independent information center "Glasnost
- North Caucasus" reports today. There still is no news
about other unexampled cases like this in other places. But
it is not much better in other places, too. In the town of Karabulak 1,735
refugees from Chechnya live in 70 carriages. Of them 507 are women, 653
children and over 300 old people. 98 per cent of the refugees are infected
with grippe, some - with tuberculosis. Lousiness and other diseases are
widespread, too. People are catastrophically shot of medical supplies,
foodstuffs, especially infant food - that does not arrive at all. They
have no opportunity of washing themselves and laundering their clothes,
because neither bathhouse nor laundry have been built. According to
reliable sources, the head of the Emergencies Ministry of the Republic of
Ingushetia Colonel Kuksa has privately ordered his officers to feed the
refugees with hot meals at least once per day. In
Karabulak's official quarts, this place is called "dump camp".
There, really, is the town's dump nearby. Today, when it is still cold
outside, it is endurable. But when it becomes warmer, it would be
impossible to live there, epidemic is quite possible and there is no
guarantee that the people of not only Ingushetia, but also of other
neighboring regions would suffer if it. Recently
13 lorries of humanitarian aid arrived to Ingushetia from the Danish
Council for Refugees. UK humanitarian organization Islamic Relief has sent
5,000 bags with foodstuffs for refugees from Chechnya. The humanitarian
cargo that arrived to Ingushetia is rated for 25,000 persons. A
representative of the Islamic Relief Muhammad Alla Amar reported that they
are going to sent humanitarian aid to Ingushetia every week for 6 months. Civilians
Executed Independent
information center "Glasnost
- North Caucasus" reports that "in the first days of
February, the army and interior troops have held another
"clean-up" in Staropromyslovsky district along the Derzhavin
Street in Grozny. In one house the soldiers saw 74-year-old man Tangiev,
shot him and were going to leave, but heard Tangiev's wife and her sister
crying. The federals returned and shot the women cold-bloodedly, and than
burned their corpses. The same scheme - shooting and than burning - was
used upon their neighbors, the Archakov family: a mother and three
daughters." Turkey
Didn't Welcome Chechen Refugees Turkish
frontier guards didn't allow about 100 refugees from Chechnya, mostly
women, children and old people, who had been on the Georgian-Turkish
border near the Georgian Vale checkpoint for more than 10 days, to enter
Turkish territory. This decision was taken "since the refugees lacked
necessary and adequate international passports". This report,
broadcast by Georgian TV on Saturday, was confirmed by the representatives
of the administration of Samtskhe-Djavakheti district, in the territory of
which the Vale checkpoint is situated. At the same time on the day before
the Turkish side transmitted humanitarian aid - foodstuffs, clothes and
medical supplies - to this group of refugees. REPORT
FROM INGUSHETIA Special
to the Information Center, of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship A
month passed since electricity was turned off at the "Yandarye State
Farm" refugee camp, which is under the patronage of the Society of
Russian-Chechen Friendship. At present there is an outbreak of colds and
flu there; those sick with bronchial asthma are especially suffering from
the cold. It is also very difficult to have doctors come here - doctors
say that they cannot provide qualified medical assistance without heating
devices and light; in a number of cases they cannot even give shots. On this day, because medical care was not provided in time, 80-year-old refugee Zhovzan Saidayeva died after an attack of bronchial asthma. The Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship organized the transport of the dead woman's body to her hometown of Argun, where she will be buried at her family cemetery. Copyright
© 2002 Global Action on Aging
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