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Anchor: News from the Duma: the Duma has drafted a law
that has engendered many disputes. The draft concerns the introduction
of punishment for the families and relatives of terrorists. According
to the draft, terrorist's relatives, even those not living together
with the terrorist, should be held responsible, if they knew about
his plans. Some people think that this idea is correct: for example
here are the comments of the leader of the Liberal Democratic
Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky:
Zhirinovsky (Ed. accurate translation of his words):
Some form of family responsibility should be introduced, because
these are specific children, and as Talibans are mostly orphans,
whose parents were killed, and we also have orphans, special camps
must have been prepared to train them. They may have been trained
there, in Afghanistan: in this case we have to find new variants
of responsibility or all the countries will begin liquidating
us, what else should we do? Should we wait until the water supply
system in Moscow is poisoned and three million Moscovites are
poisoned? Let us try to find the family of such a scoundrel.
Anchor: Other people, however, call this draft “a law
for repressing families". They think that the draft violates
the principle of personal liability. Alexei Arbatov, Deputy Chairman
of the Defence Committee of the State Duma, said:
Arbatov: The amendments to the law on the fight with terrorism
are absolutely unacceptable in parts where they envisage the responsibility
of the relatives of terrorists, as the state has at its disposal
considerable power, secret services and weapons to eliminate terrorism
everywhere and should achieve this goal efficiently, by using
all available methods. Some principles must not be violated by
the state, if it does not wish to stand at one level with organised
crime, the mafia, bandits and terrorists. In particular, one principle
holds that son is not liable for his father. The draft virtually
means the transition to taking hostages. This is a very slippery
path.
See also:
War
in Chechnya
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