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Minister
of Health of CRI, Umar Khanbiyev sent the scientific analysis of system of
tortures applied by Russian in Ichkeria against the Chechen hostages and
prisoners of war to editing and publishing department of «Kavkaz-Center».
Significance of this serious scientific analysis is, that the author of this
information was not only the witness of horrible mockeries and tortures, but
also by himself has passed through the conveyor of Putin executioners and has
tested many of tortures on himself, experienced by Chechens in Russian
concentration camps. Doctor Umar Khanbiyev is the witness and practical victim
of Russicism. According to the information of «Kavkaz-Center», scientific work
of doctor Umar Khanbiyev, in which Russian retaliatory system used against the
Chechen prisoners in concentration camps, for the first time has been classified,
and will be prepared and published in Russian, English and Turkish languages.
In
order to imagine the scale of Russian brutality in Chechnya in a comprehensive
and systematic way, one should understand that this is not a result of the
actions of some uncontrolled groups, but is a state model, which is being
managed, supervised and encouraged by the supreme authorities in Russia. The
purpose is obvious - the destruction of
Chechen statehood and genocide of the Chechen people. The terminology used by
Russian leaders is more circumspect: "The final solution of the
Chechen issue."
Concentration camps are one of the components in this punishment system. Russia
calls them "filtration points". They were first established on 12
December 1994, in accordance with the Russian Interior Ministry's Instruction No
247, allegedly "to establish the identities and check the involvement of
people detained in the fighting zone". Moscow was not even deterred by the
fact that this contravened existing Russian legislation.
[Passage omitted: criticism of international community for negligence].
The
network of concentration camps to repress the Chechens was established on
Chechen territory, as well as in some regions of Russia, in conditions of total
lawlessness. Besides, special departments for
Chechens have been established in the Russian prisons to which illegally
arrested Chechen residents are taken. Thus, even in Russian prisons,
where the law is never respected, special attention in the form of torture and
arbitrary punishment was meted out to Chechens.
"Private" mini-concentration camps exist on the territory of the
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in every military unit of the Interior Ministry,
the Federal Security Service, the Defence Ministry and the Main
Reconnaissance Department [subordinate to the Defence Ministry]. People are
being tortured, sold and killed here. Depending on which Russian
gang carried out a "clearance operation", hostages are taken to a
"private" mini-camp supervised by various punishment groups, which the
Russians call a "military unit".
If relatives do not pay a ransom to liberate a hostage within 3-4 days, then the
latter, who is tortured and beaten from the moment of capture,
could die or completely disappear. If he remains alive, then he is taken to
Khankala as a "militant". There, fixed conditions and the proper
technical equipment for torture are available.
Obviously, a prisoner stands a far greater chance of completely disappearing
here, and surprised villagers "learn" from Russian media outlets that
their neighbour or a relative, who has never even held an assault rifle in his
hands, is an "authoritative field commander". If a prisoner fails to
turn into a "famous field commander" and again remains
alive, then he is taken to Chernokozovo.
I should note that my recent observations suggest these stages of taking a
prisoner to different concentration camps are not being followed. Now
a hostage is directly taken from Khankala to one of the concentration camps on
Russian territory. Those who have managed to survive have testified that a
prisoner then passes through 15-16 Russian prisons without registration, without
being charged or standing trial. After three to six months, the unlucky victim
of this system of repression returns to Chernokozovo disabled.
Here, the first cycle of the prisoner's "journey" round Russian
prisons and concentration camps ends. But what happens here? Through staff
mediators in Chernokozovo, Putin's punishers again offer relatives the chance to
ransom prisoners.
Schematically
it looks so:
If a prisoner has died as a
result of torture at one of the stages of this "journey", then he is
registered as "released". But this person completely disappears. The
Memorial rights protection organization has
registered many facts of this type.
Numerous reports from Russian punishment structures talk about the existence of
Putin's secret instruction to punishment bodies "to destroy
80 per cent of prisoners and leave the remainder disabled" so that the
population can see what they have to fear. Officers themselves say this.
Recently, confessions of this type were registered during Putin's punishment
actions in Sernovodsk and Assinovskaya. Chechen residents believe that, first of
all, educated, healthy and handsome people are being killed. A Chechen female
villager once told TV: "Only the cross-eyed, one-eyed and morons are not
killed."
[Passage omitted: other Russian politicians also hate Chechens].
However, it becomes clear that
it is not realistic to conquer the Chechens. Understanding this and the
absurdity of his own policy, Putin further increases his anti-Chechen hatred.
His mind goes. Look, how
Putin's face changes when he speaks about the Chechens. Only psychiatrists could
explain this type of hatred. This is a serious illness, which has a tendency to
become more acute. Very soon it will be impossible to hide the symptoms of this
illness.
Today, the historically blood-thirsty essence of Russia has coincided with the
personal pathological hatred of the Russian head against Ichkeria and its people.
This is no secret. That is why the execution of Chechens without a trial, "clearance
operations" and the network of concentration camps is available. In other
words, Putin has established
a special punishment system for the genocide of the Chechen people.
Genocide is obvious in all its forms - ethnic, political, religious and
economic forms of genocide. Judge for yourself:
1. Mass killings of Chechens
using chemical weapons, vacuum and incendiary bombs, killing of people in
concentration camps, "clearance operations", pogroms and robbery,
execution without trial, torture to put an end to human reproductive functions,
persecution over ethnic
origin in Russia and abroad.
2. Deliberate destruction of
everything connected with statehood, persecution, kidnapping and killing
representatives of the authorities of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria,
persistent refusal to hold any
talks.
3. Deliberate destruction of
mosques, the persecution and killing of people because of their religion on the
pretext of combating "Wahhabis",
the killing of religious figures who refused to cooperate with special services
in the killing of Chechens.
4. The deliberate destruction
of Ichkeria's economic infrastructure, which is irrelevant to the "declared
purpose".
Putin's genocide against the
Chechen people has a number of characteristics which distinguish it from
Hitler's genocide, although the goals are the same:
I.
Size:
1. The whole Chechen nation is involved in the genocide process in his state and
abroad.
2. People are being morally and physically killed because of their ethnic origin,
religious and political affiliations.
3. The nation's economic base is being destroyed.
II.
Brutality:
1. The killing of the population using chemical and bacteriological weapons and
vacuum and incendiary bombs.
2. Torture and killings in concentration camps.
3. Deliberate torture to end people's reproductive functions.
4. Mass executions and torture without trial.
III.
Cynicism
1. Established state system for selling the corpses of hostages and disabled
prisoners of concentration camps to relatives.
2. Kidnapping on a state level.
3. The involvement of worthless Chechens in the genocide in order to hide its
real purpose.
4. Propaganda to insult the state's dignity with the aim of creating a negative
image of the Chechens so that other peoples will in turn treat them intolerantly.
Putin's
innovations in genocide of the Chechen people:
1. The term "anti-terrorist operation" is used to disguise the
genocide.
2. A bad person of Chechen origin - a "mullah" and criminal [presumably
pro-Moscow Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov] - is used as a screen for genocide.
Hitler was not so cynical as to appoint Eva Braun or a "rabbi" to head
the Jewish nation.
3. Hitler's labour-intensive "production" for processing the hair and
skin of unfortunate victims has been rejected in favour of establishing a new
type of "production" for selling prisoners' corpses and cripples as a
result of torture in concentration camps.
4. Using money from this "production" to pay butchers.
This
method has been described in one Russian television programme, where the
so-called Russian president attempted to drop a clear hint to his extremely
stupid generals about how to pay servicemen in Chechnya, i.e. to rob Chechen
civilians.
[Passage omitted: further comparison of Hitler's and Putin's methods].
Concentration camps
Official information of the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria shows
that over 40,000 (without taking into account those killed by bombs and in
"clearance operations") Chechen civilians have been killed in Russian
concentration camps since the beginning of this war. Over 20,000 people have
completely disappeared. Nearly the same number of prisoners are being held in
concentration camps, where they are subjected to torture and execution without
trial.
As a former prisoner of a concentration camp, I myself underwent Russian torture.
Additionally, as a doctor, I constantly come across the health problems of
former victims of the Russian punishment system. I am convinced that many
torture methods have been elaborated in the special
laboratories of the Russian special services because these methods are so
well-honed and technically perfect. Judging from the fact that a lot
of torture is repeated in different concentration camps, there must be a users'
guide or instructors sent from Moscow - how to correctly cripple
and make prisoners suffer. As a result of my own research and analysis, I have
classified as follows a list of the typical methods of torture being used in
Russian concentration camps against Chechens:
I.
Mental torture
A) Individual
B) Mass
II.
Physical torture
A) Individual
B) Mass
III. Torture to irrevocably damage human reproductive functions
IV. Torture resulting in death.
Mental torture
The most widely-spread mental torture methods are:
1.
Torture "Imaginary execution"
Almost every prisoner undergoes this ordeal. I know
very well what a man feels when he is subjected to this method of torture.
Although, in some cases, depending on a man's mental state, his reaction might
be different. As a man who underwent this terrible torture, I was in a state of
deep shock. This state cannot be compared with a situation when, for example, a
man finds himself being bombed or in a mine field, where the life is also in
danger. The tortured man feels himself completely unprotected and permanently
scarred.
[Passage omitted: more about feelings].
2.
Torture "Noise irritants"
One could often hear the heart-rendering cries of
torture victims in concentration camps, especially at night time. This depresses
other prisoners. Beaten up and tortured people cannot sleep. Although the
majority of us were half a pace away from death, everybody reacted sharply to
these cries. These noise irritants, without any visual perception of events,
mean prisoners imagine various scenes of terrible torture. They have not
undergone this torture yet, but it is in store for prisoners. A man fears,
suffers and cannot sleep.
3. Torture undermining human dignity
The butchers' actions in all concentration camps are,
without exception, aimed primarily at undermining a prisoner's human dignity. A
key goal of the Russian butchers in these camps is to kill and torment the human
soul, as well as to turn a man into an animal. In Chernokozovo, prisoners are
forced to crawl from one corner of a corridor to another so that, in the end, a
prisoner can report to a butcher at the end of the corridor that he "has
crawled at your orders". Many proud Chechen
young men have been killed because they refused to succumb to the butchers'
mockery.
There are many testimonies about sexual violence against male prisoners. These
victims very rarely survive. Victims of mockery of this type often commit
suicide, but we should note that this is not typical for the Chechen mentality.
Survivors say that thoughts of revenge gave them strength, and their only
purpose for the rest of their life is to get revenge against the enemy.
4.
Torture "Forced attendance at tortures"
Prisoners of concentration camps are very nervous when
they speak about witnessing others being tortured. The reason for this is easy
to explain. In February 2000 the Russians took us to Devkar-Evla (Tolstov-Yurt)
and began to throw wounded people from buses. A majority of the latter were
disabled, people injured on mines who had had arms or legs amputated. There were
also people among them on whom we had not managed to perform surgery. The
Russian punishers beat the amputated stumps of their arms and legs using boots.
[Passage omitted: author expands on his feelings].
5.
Verbal torture
Verbal torture in concentration camps has a powerful
influence on a person just like other mental torture. Threats to kill,
description of the details of torture, as a result of which you have to be
killed,
words insulting the dignity of the nation as well as of an individual and swear
words - all this strongly affects the state of a prisoner's mind. Almost all
former prisoners spoke about the low cultural level and moral degradation of the
enemy.
[Passage omitted: Chechens have not been degraded to this degree].
6. Mass mental torture "clearance operation"
As Yelena Bonner [widow of late Russian dissident
Andrey Sakharov] has said - today the whole of Chechnya is a large concentration
camp. Every
resident of Chechnya, from new-born babies to the elderly, are prisoners of this
concentration camp and undergo a mass mental method of torture
called "clearance operations". Dozens or even hundreds of people die
on a daily basis because of mental shocks which cause heart attacks and
cerebral thrombosis. The number of victims grows because of the lack of any
medical service. Doctors are unable even to anaesthetize the victims of chaotic
bombings and artillery strikes. Psychotropic substances, which are so necessary
to people in these conditions and which could protect people from post-traumatic
mental derangement, have not been brought to Chechnya in the last two years. All
my appeals to the UN, the EU and heads of
international humanitarian organizations have failed because of Russia's ban on
bringing such substances to Chechnya. The Russian authorities'
logic is quite clear - why is medical aid needed, if genocide is under way?
Physical
tortures.
I will restrict myself to describing only the most
typical methods of torture widely used in all concentration camps.
1.
Electric shock torture
The majority of concentration camp prisoners have
undergone this torture. Electrodes are fastened to the most sensitive parts of
the body (genitals, ears, nose, back of the head, armpits). Some have testified
that a separate organ was subjected to this electric shock treatment (for
example, the prostate gland). As a doctor, I initially refused to believe such
testimony. But when I examined patients-prisoners, who had been subjected to
this torture in concentration camps, I became convinced of the authenticity of
this information. These victims testify that a special electrode is injected
into the rectum while another is fastened to the genitals. When the power is
turned on, one can feel very
strong pains below the stomach.
[Passage omitted: more about pains].
2. "Swallow" torture
This is one of the most widely-spread methods of
torture. Legs and arms are tied together behind a person's back. A prisoner
hangs head first and this continues for hours. This causes very strong or
unbearable pain in joints. Afterwards, the victim feels pain in his or her
joints for a long time, as if this happened yesterday.
3.
"Respirator" torture
A prisoner is seated on a chair which is nailed to the
floor. Hands and arms are tied under the chair with handcuffs. A respirator is
put on his head and the respiratory tube is closed. A prisoner begins to
suffocate because of the lack of air. He tries to take off the handcuffs and
therefore seriously injures himself. The feeling of pain disappears. The
prisoner feels a strong pressure in his head and feels as though his eyes have
popped out. Gradually, the voices of the butchers advising you "to take a
deep breath", and their laughter seem to move far away from you. You fly
into an abyss of darkness. Then you wake up slowly and heavily. Some incoherent
sounds become words. And the first thought or
question is: "Where have I been hurt and what about my other colleagues?"
Gradually, you understand that you have just died, visited the other world, but
then again risen from the dead.
[Passage omitted: prisoner fears repetition of this torture].
4.
"Feeding" torture
Food and water is not given to prisoners for several
days. Then victims' tongues are crushed to a bloody pulp using pliers. Victims
are beaten with truncheons and forced to eat hot gruel with too much salt and
pepper in it. The prisoners eat this food crying because of the terrible pain in
their mouths. The sadists watch and enjoy this.
5.
"Wolf canines" torture
A prisoner is tied to a chair. A piece of wood in the
form of a bridle bit is put into his mouth. They saw the prisoner's teeth and,
mock him,
saying that they are sawing "wolf canines".
6.
"Round table" torture
Prisoners in handcuffs sit face-to-face at a wooden
table. The prisoners' tongues are nailed to the edge of the table. All the camp
team watches this "show" and calls this torture the "Chechen
round
table".
Torture
to irrevocably damage human reproductive functions.
There
are too many testimonies about these tortures, although this topic is very
serious for a Chechen because of his mentality. Along with
testimonies about selective methods of torture to damage male genitals using
electric shocks, we have information about deliberate injuries being inflicted
during torture to irrevocably damage a man's reproductive functions.
There
are also methods of mass torture of this type. I will give an example from the
numerous testimonies which exist. Winter, Chernokozovo.
A prison cell with a concrete floor covered with a thick layer of ice. Naked
young people are taken to this cell and, beaten with truncheons and forced to
sit down on the ice. The torture lasts several hours. The pelvic inflammation
caused by this torture and by the lack of subsequent medical treatment, leads to
irreversible consequences.
These
young people are disabled at the very beginning of their lives. There are
testimonies bearing witness to the total moral degradation of
the invaders, which is expressed in mockery of the civilian population. For
example, public rape...[ellipsis as published].
There
are too many methods of individual torture used on the prisoners of Putin's
concentration camps. I have tried to give some examples of
the most frequently-used methods of torture to which prisoners are subjected. At
the same time, I believe that these methods of torture are not the fruits of the
sick mind of sadistic individuals. Undoubtedly, these methods of torture are
worked out in the special laboratories of the Russian special services.
Additionally,
we know that prisoners in concentration camps undergo more brutal torture: the
traumatic amputation of fingers and other limbs, the putting out of eyes,
breaking bones and people's spine, the lancing of stomachs and pulling out of
intestines, the cutting out of tongues, ears
and genitals, the destruction of livers, spleens and kidneys by striking precise
blows...[ellipsis as given].
The
most monstrous thing for me, as a doctor, is that Russian military doctors
themselves often take part in this torture. There are many testimonies as to how
the doctors use various manipulations to torture, maim and kill prisoners. The
most brutal torture, during or after which prisoners are killed, the Russian
invaders themselves named "killing", i.e. these methods of torture, or
executions, are used against those prisoners who, in the sadists' opinion, must
not live.
Along
with testimonies from prisoners and the public, we have got documentary evidence
about corpses with traces of "killing" torture methods, whom brutal
punishers have thrown on the outskirts of villages and in mass burials sites.
There are also rumours about the removal and sale of prisoners' organs for
transplantation. Although, as a surgeon
who knows the technology of supplying and carrying out the transplantation
process, I can scarcely believe this.
I
have no doubts that the current Russian leadership's moral outlook allows it to
do such things. But this seems to me impossible because of the technical
difficulties, on Chechen territory at least. But who knows? There are too many
disgusting crimes being carried out by the invaders in Chechnya.
But
we have learnt about cases of new poisons being tested on prisoners. The corpses
of these prisoners undergo an autopsy. Their internal organs
are taken for laboratory research. There are grounds to claim that laboratories
of the Dagestani Medical Institute and the North Ossetian Medical Institute are
being used for these purposes in the North
Caucasus. [Passage omitted: a US doctor's comments on the issue, West's attitude
to Hitler when he came to power and comparison with Putin].
Doctor
Umar Khanbiyev, the health minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
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