Your pro-Chechen friends, Louis:
Hello Friends!
Here is info about recent activity of KOR-ABC in Warsaw.
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On 17th February 1996 during an anticapitalist demonstration in Cracov, 16 anarchists were arrested, among them Marek Milewski, archoelogy student at Warsaw University. Marek Milewski was accused of throwing molotov cocktails (he didn't do that) at police bastards. He was sentenced for one month jail awaiting trial. The prosecutor can jail him for between 3 and 7 years. Marek is obviously not guilty. Police and judges in Cracov are willing to jail him to discourage anarchists in Cracov and all Poland.
Since the day when Marek was arrested, KOR (Komitet Obrony Represjonowanych) ABC (Anarchist Black Cross) in Warsaw, Cracov, Gdansk and Rzeszow have been trying to help Marek. Several demonstrations were organised and some funds were collected. Unfortunatly all the lawyers we asked to help us refused to co-operate, because they are afraid of loosing their reputation for defending an anarchist. We are very dissapointed with this.
On 23rd February Marek Kurzyniec, an anarchist from Cracov, one of the founders of the Anarchist Federation, organizer of 2 aid convoys to Chechnya was arrested and accused of organizing an illegal demonstration. He was sentenced for 4 months for not paying the fine (1400 polish zlotys). Cracov ABC managed to collect money and Kurzyniec was released on 2nd March. But Marek Milewski is still in jail.
Now we are trying to find a lawyer who will help us or eventually find enough money to pay as a caution for releasing Marek.
Hope soon Marek Milewski will be free!
In solidarity,
Mike Kusnierz (KOR-ABC Warsaw)
(http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/eu/poland/polandb.html)
The gratitude of their Chechen friends after they got the practical independence at the end of 1996:
Krzysztof Galinski, Mac Pariadka and Zycie Marek Kurzyniec, Marscho and Zycie
Imprisoned: December 17, 1997
Galinski and Kurzyniec were kidnapped in Chechnya along with three other Polish citizens by unknown assailants while trying to deliver a shipment of food aid. All five undertook the mission on behalf of the National Federation of Anarchists in Poland, of which they are all members. Galinski is an editor with the Gdansk-based Mac Pariadka, the country's largest national anarchist monthly magazine. Kurzyniec edits his own small political bulletin Marscho, also in Gdansk.
Although their primary mission was the food aid delivery, both carried press credentials from Zycie, a national daily newspaper in Gdansk. They had agreed to a request from the editor to write free-lance articles about the situation in Chechnya upon their return.
The National Federation of Anarchists reported that all five hostages were safe as of mid-January. Rumors that the hostage-takers demanded ransom from Zycie and the anarchists' group could not be confirmed.
The kidnapping is the latest in a long series of abductions of foreign journalists and aid workers in Chechnya, usually for ransom.
(http://www.cpj.org/attacks97/confirmedright.html)
Well they are Polish after all - JOKE! Sorry :)
They just killed for the fun of making movies, it seems.
Well, as it turns out, the NRO/NeoCon axis is working overtime. Ledeen, Wolfe, Perle--ALL of them telling GWB to condemn Putin.
Poor ol' GWB steps in.
The analogy: the Czar telling Andy Jackson to keep his troops away from the Indians--who after all, were just trying to defend their buffalo lands by torturing settlers.
Uh-huh.