Bulletin
"Women and children: right to life"
Content
Preface. Taisa Isaeva, Head of the Project, Director of CNGO Informational Center
Nurdi Nukhadzhiev, Ombudsman of the Chechen Republic
Israpil Shaovkhalov, the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Dosh” (The Word)
Musa Akhmadov, Chechen writer, publicist, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Vainakh”
Roza Satueva, correspondent of the newspaper “Voice of the Chechen Republic”
Natalya Estemirova, employee of ‘Memorial’
Usam Baisaev, member of HR center “Memorial”
Satsita Israilova, director of Grozny central library
Abubakar Amirov, resident of Staropromislovski district of Grozny
Dik Altemirov, Human rights activist and community worker
Vakha Ibalayev, resident of the former village Kharsenoi
Taisa Isaeva,
Head of the Project, Director of CNGO Informational Center
Alot of stories were told and
written about the war on the territory of the Chechen
Republic, which has been lasting for more than 12 years. Hundreds thousand
killed, crippled and missing citizens, totally destroyed cities and village
– that is the sad result of two military campaigns in the Chechen Republic.
Our bulletin does not attempt to give any legal or political evaluation of what occurred in the Chechen Republic. We simply aim to inform our readers about pain and truth of the people who have lost all that the person can have - the children, brothers, sisters, wives and relatives.
The whole world learned about the tragedy of the settlement of Samashki in 1995, about atrocities of militaries in the villages of Aldy, Kotar-Yurt, Alkhan-Yurt, Saadi-Kotar (Komsomolskoe) in 2000. The rocket bombardment of the center of the city of Grozny in October of 1999, when hundreds peaceful citizens died and were injured, shooting attack of refugee columns in winter of the same year and many other things had became well-known in the world. It is well known that in the course of military activities the peaceful population, women, old men and children usually are the most vulnerable.
This bulletin contains stories of people of different age, specialties and interests, representatives of the literati. Each of them differently, but at the same time, identically perceived tragedy and pain of strangers. They sympathize the grief touched the people who very often absolutely unfamiliar to them. The only question, which we asked our respondents, was which case occurred to women and children at the war shocked them profoundly with its cruelty.
Among these stories there are also stories told by ordinary people, who experienced personal tragedies. It is the story of a father, who lost two daughters during the first military campaign, and in the course of the second war he lost their graves. Or the story of a husband whose pregnant wife was raped and brutally killed, who himself conducted investigation of the circumstances of the violent execution of his wife and established names of all murderers.
We witnessed how the adults,
who experienced so much in their life, went through two wars, and now
answering this simple question, started worrying and being nervous at
once. It was felt, that, recalling those events, they again unconsciously
started experience that shock which they had already been gone through
once.
Each of these stories is a whole history which allows us to imagine scales
of that, what was happening here in the course of military actions, and
the answer to the question: “Where does each war lead to?” regardless
of where it goes.
