Спрете войната в Чечения! ● Stop the War in Chechenia! ● Остановите войну в Чечне!

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Washington D. C.

U. S. Secretary of State

U. S. Department of State

Washington D. C.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

On 27^th May 2005 the parliament of the European Union condemned with more than two months delay the assassination of the legitimate Chechen president Aslan Mashadov. Andrè Glucksman spoke out the following words after the fatal assault on the pro-west afghan leader Massoud: “The blind West abandoned commander Massoud to his own fate, who had opposed the Soviet troops and after that the Talibans. This mistake has been noticed too late. They made a icon of him… After his dead…” . On 27^th May 2005 these words were prophetically fulfilled concerning Chechen president Aslan Mashadov.

Since the beginning of the second Chechen war, which Russian president Vladimir Putin launched in 1999 against the citizen of Chechnya in an offensive and totally unjustified way, the number of the killed by Russian troops Chechen citizens already exceeded 130 000 people, out of them 35 000 children, and the number of inhabitants in this region, documentary being counted by missing in action, exceeds the number of 10 000 people.

According to additional data, almost 30 percent of the 1 million Chechen people are killed in the course of the past ten years in the two Chechen wars. Thousands of Chechen citizens literally moulder in the so-called filtration camps, which in the essence are the camps of death. Each night Chechen cities and villages are targets of the "cleansing", with which mothers and girls get shot or brutally raped in front of the eyes of their families, and fathers and sons are deported forever from there houses. The terror of the Russian authorities and Chechen pro-Russian clans, which use a military situation in order to maraud and to terrorize its own population, is directed against those, which dared to search for their rights at the European Court of the Human Rights in Strasbourg, and also against all attempts from the side of non-government organizations to find a peaceful solution of the conflict.

Last examples of this are the murders of the first prosecutor into the European Court of the Human Rights in Strasbourg - Surah Bitieva, killed by GRU during May 2003 and of the lawfully chosen President in exile Aslan Mashadov on 8^th March 2005.

By Mashadovs murder was interrupted the most important Chechen voice, which was constantly raised to the benefit of a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the region with the active political participation of the United Nations and the European Union.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

The President Aslan Mashadov and Mrs. Surah Bitieva, just as hundreds of thousands of Chechen victims and immigrants expected your aid! You did not render it to them; you do not render it to the Chechen population until the present day! During the multiethnic conflicts and the wars in the countries of former Yugoslavia the western civilization made a fatal error, to wait an entire decade before interfering. The western democracies observed passively 5 years long from the other side of the continent the genocide on the citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia; and 10 years, respectively, in Kosovo. Only a few political leaders, public workers and individual non-government organizations attracted at this time the public attention to the atrocities of the dictator Slobodan Milosevic and his helpers. But they remained lonely voices. Today we know how high the price of these errors was – hundreds of thousands of victims, tens of thousands missing in action, millions of emigrants from their houses. The consequences of the genocide - economical, social and political crises in the affected regions are visible still, and the healing of the inflicted wounds to the nations will last for still many years.

On the basis this bitter experience and the other negative experience in Europe during the two world wars, when precisely the passiveness of the majority of the European chief politicians did contribute to the tragic motion of European and world history in the past century, we do turn ourselves today to you - to the representatives of states, parties and organizations, which did build up the contemporary western democratic societies on the foundation the basic values of Christianity and Humanism - and we do ask you, how long will you look this time passively at the destruction of an entire nation? How long would it be required this time, how many victims’ lives would the "policy" of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the subordinated to him Chechen clans take away, so that you would do what is your basic obligation as politicians, christians, humanists and democrats?

This question we pose to you, as citizens of Europe and the world from the pages of the following media:

http://oshte.info

http://www.kavkazcenter.com

http://www.chechenpress.org

http://chechentimes.org

http://www.jaras.msktele.com/

http://www.watchdog.cz/

http://www.memo.ru/hr/hotpoints/northkavkaz.htm

http://www.hrw.org/russian/

http://www.grani.ru/

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/

http://www.chechensociety.net/