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The Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO
Bureau of the Federal Council
Statement

On the 60th anniversary of the mass-scale deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples

Moskovskiy, Moscow Region, February 20, 2004

February 23, 2004 will mark 60 years since the start of the mass-scale deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples.

Hundreds of thousands people were forcefully pushed out of their native places of residence where their ancestors had been living for centuries and deprived of their property. Tens of thousands of died during transportation and in the hard conditions of exile.

For many years afterwards the Chechens and Ingushetis were virtually deprived of civil rights and did not have a chance to return to their motherland.

The tragic developments in modern Chechnya are engendered in this tragedy which took place 60 years ago. The war in Chechnya has been going on and even entered a new most atrocious terrorist stage. The law enforcement structures and agencies that have been given completely ‘free rein” have repeatedly demonstrated their inefficiency in the protection of civilians in Chechnya, Moscow and the rest of Russia.

Terrorism and the murder of innocent people have no justifications politically, religiously or for any other reason. The YABLOKO party advocates a decisive and efficient struggle against terrorism in Chechnya and the rest of Russian and internationally. However, the fight against terrorism should not deprive citizens of their expand its social base, and there will be no end to the terrorist war, as has been demonstrated by Palestine.

The YABLOKO party thinks that deportation of the Chechen, the Ingush and other nations refers to the hardest crimes committed by the Stalin’s regime.

The YABLOKO party expresses its condolences to those who suffered in this crime.

The YABLOKO party will spare no effort to ensure that nothing similar can ever be repeated against any of the nations living in Russia.

Chairman of the party

Grigory Yavlinsky

 

See also:

War in Chechnya

Moskovskiy, Moscow Region, February 20, 2004

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