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We express our deepest condolences and call for an independent transparent international investigation

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Friday, 03 September 2004

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses our deepest condolences to the relatives and friends of all victims of the hostage taking in Beslan. The Chechen nation, having lost 25 % of its population at the hands of the Russian state policy of genocide during the last 10 years, know very well the pain of loosing the loved ones, the horrors of monstrous brutality against innocent defenceless people, children, women and men. There is no a single Chechen whose relatives and friends have not been murdered, tortured or raped by the Russian troops and security services since December 1994.

As the past experience tells us that Russian security services often are involved in planning, executing or manipulating various terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia, including the apartment bombings in Moscow in 1999 and the hostage taking in the Moscow theatre in 2002, we call upon all Russian citizens to demand from the Russian government to agree to an independent and transparent international investigation of this hostage taking in Beslan. We strongly believe that the Chechens, Russians and the international community has the right to know what actually has happened and who really were the hostage takers and the organisers of this terrorist act, and we hope that this call will not go unanswered.

Press Office
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
www.chechnya-mfa.info
Press Office of Chechen MFA

So Russian security services took their own kids hostage and shot them, took their own theater hostage and gassed them, and staged all the Moscow bombings to boot? Tell me another story, Chechens and al Qaeda. There's not a rock big enough or a hole deep enough for you to hide in now.

Re the expression of Chechen "condolence" in your post 29: that is one of the most smarmy pieces of blaming the victims and excusing the criminals that I have ever read. This is the kind of "condolences" the US used to get during the Cold War when something terrible happened to our people. It's also identical to the propraganda trotted out as "humantiarian condolences" to the Israelis when stuff like this happens to them. (As a matter of fact, the "libertarians" over at Liberty Forum regularly claim that terrorist attacks on Israelis is actually perpetrated by the IDF on orders from Sharon. Great minds think alike, don't they?)

I hope the Russians will now question their decades-long policy of supporting the Arab/moslem world against the US and Israel.

May these monsters pay for what they have done, and may G-d bless and protect the Russian people and nation not only from islam, but from any resurgence of Communism or any other G-dless totalitarian ideology.