Son of Kavkaz-Center's director shot and in critical condition in Azerbaijan
Appeal by Kavkaz-Center (received through middleman)
We are desperate. If you can please inform local mass-media or anyone who can do it about this message:
On Monday, October 11th, there has been an assault made by unknown criminals on the son of director general of Kavkaz-Center news agency Visami Tutuyev. As a result son of Tutuyev was very badly injured and now is in one of the hospitals of Baku (Azerbaijan) in unconscious state. Medics said that his state of health is critical.
After renewal of website's work Visami Tutuyev himself has got under unexampled psychological pressure from the side of georgian authoritites.
Editorial of "Kavkaz-Center" declares that this terrorist attack against family of Tutuyev has direct connection with the recent threats from Moscow and personally Putin towards chechen representatives abroad.
"Kavkaz-Center" calls upon international human rights and journalistic organizations to interfere without delay in the fate of director general Visami Tutuyev and his family and to protect them.
Putin Takes A Swipe at Britain
President Vladimir Putin called for international solidarity against terrorism today issued thinly veiled criticism of the Britain for granting asylum to Chechen separatist figures.
Receiving credentials from new ambassadors to Russia in a Kremlin ceremony, Putin called for “solidarity in the struggle with international terrorism” and said double standards were unacceptable. “Terrorism can only be fought together,” he said.
After a series of terror attacks in Russia, Putin and other top officials have criticised Western politicians who have called for negotiations with Chechen rebels, and have lashed out at Britain and the United States for granting asylum to rebel envoys.
“It is important not only to neutralise the terrorists themselves – their political lobbyists and ideological inspirers must end up in complete isolation,” Putin said.
Russian authorities have unsuccessfully sought the extradition of two envoys of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov: Ilyas Akhmadov, who was granted asylum in the United States, and Akhmed Zakayev, who has refugee status in Britain.
The Kremlin is angry that Akhmadov and Zakayev have been able to speak out through the media, criticising its policies in Chechnya and the surrounding North Caucasus region, the site of the school raid last month that left more than 330 people dead, many of them children.
Foreign governments have expressed solidarity with Russia over the attack but have emphasised the need for a political settlement in Chechnya, whose rebels are blamed for most terror attacks in Russia.
Putin’s government, which says it is fostering a political process in Chechnya alongside its efforts to eradicate the rebels, is sensitive about any criticism of its policies and about advice from abroad, saying the situation in Chechnya is an internal matter.
Putin called for nations to take action against terrorism, saying “historical experience shows that nobody can safely sit it out in the trenches.” He added that “attempts to flirt with terrorists are unacceptable.”
Maybe it was the father of a dead russian soldier or some baby from Beslan?