VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
Volume 216, January 1, 2012
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
(www.xeniagreekmuslimah.wordpress.com)Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
– Martin Luther King Jr.
EDITORIAL:
This is Part III in the series relating to Chechnya. The focus in this issue is the brief history of Chechnya as a nation and its loss of national identity. Mention is also made of the two wars with Russia.
CHECHNYA-IIIa
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Chechnya's twelve years of off-and-on war with the Russians (GlobalSecurity.org) has claimed as many as 100,000 lives.
THE INDEPENDENT DESCRIBES GROZNY, THE CHECHEN CAPITAL, AS A "POST-APOCALYPTIC LUNAR LANDSCAPE" WITH 70 PERCENT OF ITS HOUSING WIPED OUT. (www.cfr.org)
A PICTURE SPEAKS A THOUSANDS WORDS
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HISTORY OF CHECHNYA:
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Chechnya within Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Following long resistance during the 1817-1864 Caucasian War, Russia finally defeated Chechnya and annexed it in the 1870s. The Chechens' subsequent attempts at gaining independence after the fall of the Russian Empire failed and in 1922 Chechnya was incorporated into Bolshevist Russia and later into the Soviet Union (USSR).
In 1936, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin created the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1944, on the orders of NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria, more than 1 million Chechens, the Ingush, and several other North Caucasian peoples were deported to Siberia and Central Asia, officially as punishment for alleged collaboration with the invading German forces; the Chechen-Ingush Republic was abolished. Eventually, Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev granted the Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) peoples permission to return to their homeland and restored their republic in 1957.
PART IIIb
FIRST CHECHEN WAR:
(Dec 1994-August 1996)
(Dec 1994-August 1996)
(Photo: Chechen women pray for Russian troops not to advance towards the capital Grozny, December 1994).The First Chechen War, also known as the War in Chechnya, was a conflict between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, fought from December 1994 to August 1996. After the initial campaign of 1994–1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to seize control of the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flat lands in spite of Russia's overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support.
The resulting widespread demoralization of federal forces, and the almost universal opposition of the Russian public to the conflict, led Boris Yeltsin's government to declare a ceasefire in 1996 and sign a peace treaty a year later. The official figure for Russian military deaths is 5,500, while most estimates put the number between 3,500 and 7,500, or even as high as 14,000. Although there are no accurate figures for the number of Chechen militants killed, various estimates put the number at about 3,000 to over 15,000 deaths. Various figures estimate the number of civilian deaths at between 30,000 and 100,000 killed and possibly over 200,000 injured, while more than 500,000 people were displaced by the conflict, which left cities and villages across the republic in ruins.
PART IIIc
SECOND CHECHEN WAR:
Battle phase: 26 August 1999 – May 2000
Battle phase: 26 August 1999 – May 2000
Estimate up to 25,000 killed and up to 5,000 "disappeared" in Chechnya (AI estimate)
Estimate 50,000 killed in Chechnya (GfbV estimate) More in neighboring regions, More than 600 killed during attacks in Russia proper. Total killed military/civilian: 54,402–74,402
Estimate 50,000 killed in Chechnya (GfbV estimate) More in neighboring regions, More than 600 killed during attacks in Russia proper. Total killed military/civilian: 54,402–74,402
(PHOTO:Russian artillery shells target militant positions near the village of Duba-Yurt in January 2000)The Second Chechen War, in a later phase better known as the War in the North Caucasus, was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB).
On 1 October Russian troops entered Chechnya. The campaign ended the de facto independence of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and restored Russian federal control over the territory On 16 April 2009, the counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya was officially ended.
The exact death toll from this conflict is unknown. Unofficial estimates range from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or missing, mostly civilians in Chechnya. Russian casualties are over 5,200 (official Russian casualty figures) and are about 11,000 according to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers.
The exact death toll from this conflict is unknown. Unofficial estimates range from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or missing, mostly civilians in Chechnya. Russian casualties are over 5,200 (official Russian casualty figures) and are about 11,000 according to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers.
(A woman in Sernovodsk, Chechnya, holds a picture of her brother, allegedly killed by Russian security forces in 2004. Image by Tom Parfitt, Chechnya 2004. www. pulitzercenter.org)
PART IIId
According to Human Rights Watch in 2005:
According to Human Rights Watch in 2005:
“Disappearances” in Chechnya are so widespread and systematic that they constitute crimes against humanity; by some estimates between 3,000 and 5,000 have “disappeared” since 1999.
In numerous cases their corpses are found in unmarked graves or dumped, but in most instances they are simply never heard from after being taken into custody . . . The majority of the bodies showed signs of severe mutilation, including flaying or scalping, broken limbs, severed finger tips and ears, and close range bullet wounds typical of summary executions. Examinations by medical doctors of some of these bodies have revealed that some of the deliberate mutilations were inflicted while the detainees were still alive".
In numerous cases their corpses are found in unmarked graves or dumped, but in most instances they are simply never heard from after being taken into custody . . . The majority of the bodies showed signs of severe mutilation, including flaying or scalping, broken limbs, severed finger tips and ears, and close range bullet wounds typical of summary executions. Examinations by medical doctors of some of these bodies have revealed that some of the deliberate mutilations were inflicted while the detainees were still alive".
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"A mother's kiss to this pain? Can she buy pain killers or even find one?
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(Russian respect to a dead Chechen. Dogs over human bodies. Why not feeding with them? www.russian-terror-in--chechnya.blogspot.com)
Chechnya War Child
www.boes.org(One More Time - a War Against Civilians; One More Time - Waiting for the never-in-time-co-ordinated international community, the same cowardice, the same silence; One More Time - WAITING FOR THE USUAL TOTAL DISASTER? www.boes.org)
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www.russian-terror-in--chechnya.blogspot.com(DISCLAIMER:
Our goal in this E-Zine is to educate our Global Ummah in terms of the depth and magnitude of the sufferings of our Chechen Muslim brothers and sisters. We strongly believe that most of the Global Ummah have very little information as to what exactly happened in Chechnya and its dark chapters of history.
We want to make it very clear in no uncertain terms, that we are OPPOSED TO TERRORISM whether by individuals, groups, organization or the State. The life of every human being is valuable and precious.
Our long term goal is to encourage one and all to come out of their individual symbolic boxes of religion, race, culture, ethnicity, nationality and work together for WORLD PEACE AND UNITY. Muslims following Islam which is a religion of PEACE should in reality be on the forefront working towards PEACE but you know the reality probably better than us. This blog will continue its mission of PEACE because TRUTH MATTERS and the truth remains that ISLAM IS INDEED A RELIGION OF PEACE despite self-styled anti-Islamic extremists violating the core Islamic values in the false guise of ISLAM)
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