Things Are Moving!

Dear friend,

a few days before the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen people on 23 February 1944 on the orders of Stalin, I would like to thank all those who have supported me during this hunger strike to urge Europe in intervene with determination to put an end to the genocide of the Chechen people at the hands of the Russian authorities.

I would also like to thank all those (already more than 200 people) who will take part in the three-day fast that will begin tomorrow in support of the Peace Plan presented by the Chechen government for the establishment of an interim United Nations administration in Chechnya.

Finally, I would like to thank the 17,000 people and the hundreds of leading personalities and parliamentarians who have already signed the appeal in support of the Peace Plan, and to invite anyone who has not yet done so to do so without further delay at www.radicalparty.org!

A certain number of parliamentary initiatives have got off the ground in the course of the last few days, and demonstrations - well attended, I hope - will take place in over twenty cities in Europe (details can be found at www.radicalparty.org).

These initiatives are thus beginning to bear fruit. On the basis of the mobilisation for the demonstrations on 23 February and of the results of the parliamentary initiatives in progress, we will soon be able to decide how to follow up this nonviolent initiative.

I very much hope to see you on 12 p.m. on Monday, at rond-point Schumann in Brussels, where I will be with the Chechen Health Minister Oumar Khanbiev.

Best wishes,
Olivier Dupuis