The Address
of the Ukrainian Committee
of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations
to the United Nations and
the world community
The military aggression openly carried out by the Russian Federation against the Chechen Republic — Ichkeria, prompts us to come out in defence of the Chechen people, who are building an independent state on their ethnic lands. Hundreds of people, most of them civilians of the capital, were killed during the combat “operations” of units of the North Caucasian Military District in the city of Grozny. Houses and entire residential blocks were destroyed. With its statements, the leadership of the Russian Federation misinforms the world community, denying its involvement in both terrorist actions and the aerial military attack on Grozny. However, the indisputable facts, the prisoners of war, testify that the Russian army is fighting against the Chechen people, using the so-called Chechen opposition as a cover.
Taking into account the fact that the UN consistently advocates for the protection of human rights, we emphasize that a person cannot be free, and his rights cannot be defended, if the rights of the entire nation are violated, in particular, the most important thing – the right to a free state life. Moscow pursues a policy of genocide in Chechnya, and its actions must be properly assessed by the democratic world. We appeal to the UN to consider the Chechen issue at one of its sessions.
CHECHNYA EYES OF LONDON
General Dzhokhar Dudayev became a star of the English mass media thanks to another attempt by Russia to eliminate the independence of Chechnya. In their publications, the British show a good awareness of the essence of the problem. This is not surprising, because they had a reason to be interested in the case of Chechnya in connection with last year’s murder in London of the Utsiev brothers, who were sent by President Dudayev on an official mission. The death of the brothers delayed the solution of such state problems in Chechnya as the production of passports, money signs and postal badges. Then the Russian press tried to shift the responsibility for the murder of the Utsyevs to some unspecified international mafia. If it was so, then using the rule “who benefits?” we can easily take into account who was behind the mafia.
However, now the British are less interested in the memories of the death of the general’s envoys, and more in the story of his life, a man, who alone, with an open visor meets with a Russian bear. Our colleagues from the islands conclude that Dudayev’s choice is determined by the fate of his people. He was born when all his people were declared traitors and evicted to the steppes of Kazakhstan. He spent the first thirteen years of his life in exile. Although he chose the fate of a Russian officer, it did not prevent him from remembering throughout his life that he was the son of an enslaved nation.
An episode of his life since 1989 has attracted the special attention of English journalists. Then the commander of the military unit in Estonia, General Dudayev, ordered to raise the Estonian national flag over the unit on the occasion of the national holiday.
The British believe that this, the second Russian invasion of Chechnya in the last two years, will not solve the problem. Russia has entered into a confrontation with a small nation that has great courage and national solidarity, that is supported by the greater Muslim world and that is sympathetic to other non-Russian nations that are now included in the Russian Federation. It may be that by igniting the conflict over Chechnya, Yeltsin ignited Bickford’s cord to the bomb planted in the new Russian state.
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