YABLOKO
conducted an action “Who Will Be Answerable for the Acts of Terror?”
Press Release
January 27, 2011
“Who Wi ll Be Answerable for the Acts of Terror?”
was the slogan of today’s picket of YABLOKO’s activists.
They put three large panels with information on the acts
of terror for the past ten years (date, place, number of victims)
by the Griboyedov monument at Chistiye Prudi.
Special information boards were devoted to explosion in the
underground crossing under the Pushkin square in the centre
of Moscow, hostages of the Nord-Ost musical, bombings of the
Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service buildings,
bombings of passenger trains, Beslan school, bombings in the
Moscow metro. All the boards had a symbolic memorial plague
and a question “Who is answerable?”
A special board was devoted to the act of terror in Moscow’s
Domodedovo airport.
“We are asking with the help of this picket who will be answerable
for these acts of terror? As no one from the top officials
of the interior and secret services was liable for this, their
activities have been absolutely non-transparent so far,” said
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin.
“Why should we believe to victorious reports by secret services
that they have allegedly eliminated terrorists in the mountains
when we constantly get the new ones?” he added
YABLOKO proposes to create a system of parliamentary and
public control over secret services.
According to Mitrokhin, a special parliamentary commission
should be created in the State Duma and the heads of the secret
services should be accountable before it.
Also Mitrokhin proposed to create a special independent public
commission which would analyse the reasons behind the past
acts of terror and would find how these were investigated.
After which the commission will inform the society of its
conclusions.
Mitrokhin also added that such a commission was created in
the US after the 11th of September 2001. Its report indicated
at the drawbacks in the work of the US secret services and
gave recommendations on their reorganization, as well as advice
to the President.
“The American society adjusted its life to the challenges
of international terrorism. And we see the result – no acts
of terror for the past ten years. And we have acts of terror
every month and even more often depending on the situation
in the North Caucasus,” Mitrokhin stressed.
“We have to put an end to uncontrolledness and irresponsibility
of our secret services,” he added.
The action lasted for an hour and the police did not interfere
this time.
