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Brussels,
August 31, 2001. More than fifty personalities e more than 400 citizens have
already signed the international appeal: « Chechnya: Enough ! » launched by
the Transnational Radical Party. The appeal adressed to the highest authorities
of the European Union defined as « partners in crime » and soon «conscious
allies of the those who are perpetrating those massacres » and of « a Russia
that is loosing itself while torturing Chechnya » calls on them to « oblige
the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Putin, to negotiate
immediatly with the legitimate President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Mr.
Aslan Mashkadov » and themselves to « internationally recognize Chechnya».
The appeal can be signed “on line” on the Transnational Radical Party
website: www.radicalparty.org
Chechnya:
Enough!
Distinguished
ladies and gentlemen of the European Council and Commission:
During 300 years of its Russian occupation, Chechnya has lived the “benefits
of colonisation” in the guise of cataclysms – massacres, destruction, mass
deportation – which used to happen every five years. During the last seven
years, almost 150,000 habitants of the Chechen Republic – 15% of its
population – have lost their lives; 250,000 are refugees and are living, for
the main part, in inhumane conditions; scores of thousands of civilians and
members of the resistance have lived, and are still living, the reality of the
“gulags” of “democratic” Russia: filtration camps, tortures, rapes,
extortion and summary executions. Every day the list of dead, wounded, maimed,
and invalid people gets longer and longer. You are aware of these figures. You
know these facts. They are not those of the Stalin Era. They are happening today.
They happen in today’s Russia, the one ruled by your colleague Vladimir Putin,
a Russia that is loosing itself while torturing Chechnya.
Distinguished
members of the European Council and Commission, You have no choice, unless
you prefer to continue to betray the values and ideals of the European Union and
of its member states. You have no choice, unless you prefer to become, not only
partners in crime through your omissions, but conscious allies of the those who
are perpetrating those massacres and therefore direct actors of the Chechen
tragedy. You have wasted too much time and you have nothing left now but the
right to burst of indignation:
- you
must oblige the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Putin, to
negotiate immediately a process for the decolonisation of Chechnya with the
legitimate President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Mr. Aslan Maskhadov;
- you
must proceed unilaterally, to recognise internationally the Chechen Republic of
Ichkeria.
First signatories:
Erkin Alptekin,
President of the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) (Germany);
Gaqo Apostoli, Vice President of the Social Democratic Party, MP (Albania); Andrei
Babitski, Journalist (Russia); Sihem Ben Sedrine, Spokesperson of the
National Committee for Freedoms in Tunisia (Tunisia); Snjezana
Biga-Friganovic, MP, Social Democratic Party (Croatia); Andrej Blinushov,
Director of "Karta", Human Rights Magazine (Russia); Marco Boato,
MP, the Greens (Italy); Emma Bonino, Member of the European Parliament,
Italian Radicals (Italy); Elena Bonner, chairperson of the Andrei
Sakharov Foundation (Russia); Konstantin Borovoi, Director of the "America"
monthly, former member of the Russian Duma (Russia); John Bowis, Member
of the European Parliament, European People Party (United Kingdom); Vladimir
Bukovsky, writer, former soviet dissident (Russia); Chongwo Cai,
President of the Federation for Democracy in China - French section (China);
Enver Can, President of the East Turkestan National Congress (ETNC) (Germany);
Marco Cappato, Member of the European Parliament, Italian Radicals (Italy);
Khémaïs Chammari, International Human Right Prize of the City of Nurenberg
(Tunisia); Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Member of the European Parliament,
Italian Radicals (Italy); Benedetto Della Vedova, Member of the European
Parliament, Italian Radicals (Italy); Harlem Désir, Member of the
European Parliament, Socialist Party (France); Faik Dizdarevic, President
of the Association "Sarajevo" (Bosnia); Alla Dudayeva, writer,
artist (Chechnya); Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament -
Secretary general of the Transnational Radical Party (Italy); Penelope
Faulkner, vice-president of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (Great-Britain);
Hélène Flautre, Member of the European Parliament, The Greens (France);
Monica Frassoni, Member of the European Parliament, The Greens (Belgium);
André Glucksmann, Philosopher, writer (France); Romain Goupil,
Writer (France); Serguei Grigoriants, President of the Glasnost
Foundation, former soviet dissident (Russia); Marie Holzman, Sinologist,
writer (France); Kamel Jendoubi, President of the Committee for the
Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia (Tunisia); Ismail Kadaré,
writer (Albania); Julia Kalinina, Journalist at the "Moskovskij
Komsomolets" (Russia); Umar Khanbiyev, Minister for Health of the
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (Chechnya); Pandeli Majko, Former Prime
Minister of Albania, MP, socialist (Albania); Cecilia Malmstrom, Member
of the European Parliament, Liberal Party (Sweden); Valentina Melnikova,
Secretary of the Union of Committies of Soldiers' mothers (Russia); Ariane
Mnouchkine, Director of the "Théâtre du Soleil" (France); Carlos
Alberto Montaner, vice president of the "International Liberal" (Cuba);
Valeria Novodrvorskaja, leader of the Democratic Union, member of the
editorial board of the "New Time" magazine, former USSR political
prisoner (Russia); Doris Pack, Member of the European Parliament,
European People Party (Germany); Marco Pannella, Member of the European
Parliament, Italian Radicals (Italy); Leonid Pliousch, Dissident of the
Former USSR, mathematician (Ukraina); Alexandr Podrabinek, journalist,
director of the Human Rights News Agency "Prima", former USSR
political prisoner (Russia); Bernd Posselt, Member of the European
Parliament, European People Party (Germany); Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche,
Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in exile (India); Elizardo Sanchez,
President of the Cubanian Human Rights Commission and for National
Reconciliation (Cuba); Mariotto Segni, Member of the European Parliament,
Europe Nations Union (Italy); Adriano Sofri, editorialist (Italy); Ven.
Junsei Terasawa, Buddhist Monk, initiator of the 1995 Mothers' March to
Chechnya (Japan); Tempa Tsering, Home Affairs Minister in the Tibetan
Government in exile (India); Maurizio Turco, Member of the European
Parliament, Italian radicals (Italy); Mayrbek Vachagayev, Spokesman of
the Chechen President (Chechnya); Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam
Committee on Human Rights (Vietnam); Otto von Habsburg, International
President of the Paneuropean Union (Germany)
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