Posted on 09/09/2004 8:26:08 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
Moscow (AsiaNews) – Events in Beslan have had an unusual and unexpected impact in Chechnya. The local population, which had largely backed the actions by Chechen terrorists, seems to have turned against them. Separatists’ families, including those of anti-Russian resistance leaders such as Maskhadov, Basayev, Umarov –who are thought to have orchestrated the Beslan attack– have publicly condemned the actions of their relatives.
Pamzan and Ruslan Maskhadov, cousins of former Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov called on him to end terrorism. “Today, life is back to normal in the Chechen Republic. It is possible to work and receive a salary,” the two brothers said. “Consequently, the reasons for terror are neither present nor justified.” They urged Mashkadov to put an end to his actions once and for all and stop the gangs “who have killed hundreds of innocent children.” They also asked Ossetians for forgiveness.
Zholzan Abdulkadyrova, Aslan Maskhadov’s sister, appealed to her brother telling him to stop the crimes against helpless people. In the early phase of the Beslan crisis, Ms Abdulkadyrova had offered herself as a hostage in place of the children held. “Chechens,” she said, “do not want to be the enemies either of Ossetians, Ingushs or Russians.”
Junus Kurazov, deputy mufti in Chechnya’s Vedensky district and husband to Shamil Basayev’s cousin, expressed his solidarity with the people of North Ossetia. “These child-killing gangsters are terrorists and should be punished. These people will never receive forgiveness for their sins; only Almighty Allah might do it.” He added that “terrorism has no national or ethnic colour. Whoever they are, no matter their nationality, ethnicity or religion, they should be punished.”
In his Vedensky mosque, mufti Kurazov led Friday prayers for the murdered children and the people of Ossetia. “Ossetians have always helped Chechens, and in these heavy days, Chechens must pray and support them,” Kurazov said.
Umar Gudaev, Basayev’s father-in-law, and Nasir Sideev, husband to Basayev’s aunt, joined Kurazov in expressing their outrage. “The terrorists have crossed the point of no return into the world of cruelty and brutality. They have used weapons against defenceless children and women,” they said.
Relatives of Doku Umarov, another Chechen leader suspected of involvement in the Beslan attack, have also condemned the terrorist actions.
Despite the genuine revulsion on the part of terrorists’ relatives anger and resentment have boiled over and led some Chechens to prepare reprisal attacks against rebel leaders’ relatives. “Their lives were in danger,” said Ilya Shabalkin, official representative of the Russian federal counterterrorist services (FSB), “and we had evidence that ‘spontaneous groups’ were being formed in various areas of Chechnya to kill Chechen leaders” relatives. However, because of our preventive actions we were able to take them into protective custody and save them from retaliation,” the FSB general said.
The death of the innocent has provoked sorrow and angst throughout Chechnya. Many Chechens have joined the chorus of voices condemning the Beslan attack. Several demonstrations have taken place in the republic to denounce the terrorists and condemn the massacre. One demonstrator was quoted as saying: “As Chechens we can relate to what happened in Beslan. And we are ready to help the people hurt by the terrorists.” (AF)
Moscow doctors try to help desperate mothers, who lost their children in Beslan
Ten former hostages from Beslan arrived in Moscow on Thursday on board a plane of the Russian defense ministry and were hospitalized to Serbsky's State Scientific Center in Moscow (the central psychiatric hospital in Russia). Doctors say that each of those people, who experienced the nightmare of the hostage crisis in Beslan, were on the verge of suicide. One of the former hostages committed suicide, when she came back home from the stormed school. Psychiatrists say 132 other victims of the horrific terrorist attack need to be hospitalized urgently, the Kommersant wrote.
Ten leading specialists of the Serbsky's Institute left for North Ossetia soon after the end of the hostage crisis. The doctors rendered first psychological aid to those, who survived the storm of the Beslan school.
"Our specialists work at hospitals and at funeral ceremonies," the institute's director Tatiana Dmitrieva said. "Unfortunately, we have lost one woman. She committed suicide when she identified her dead child," Dmitrieva said. Psychiatrists are deeply concerned about a possible series of possible suicides to occur. "It is not time for mass suicides, - senior psychiatrist of the Russian Healthcare Ministry Boris Kazakovtsev said. - An outburst of suicides usually starts a month or two after an emergency situation ends."
Interfax, meanwhile, reports that seven-year-old boy Beklastan Khudalov, who was seriously injured in the terrorist act in North Ossetia, died on Friday overnight at a hospital in Moscow. The death toll thus reached 327.
Twelve-year-old boy Soslan was taken to Moscow with symptoms of autism. The boy was not showing any reactions for several days. He was looking at everyone with a glassy look, swinging on the chair all the time. Today the boy asked to go outside - it was the first time, when he did not scream at night.
There are no Muslim shills here, there are however a whole bunch of people trying to steer scrutiny away fro the Russian government, and their part of the blame for this situation.
There are also hypocrites who call for genocide in Chechnya for the murder of 150 children, and refuse to comment on what to do about a Christian country that systematically murdered 39 million children at a rate exceeding 800,000 per year.
I see your concern for dead children...when do we start leveling America in revenge for the thirty nine million (and counting) we've murdered?
Russia has had a knife at the Chechen throat for over a century.
The Communist shills on this site make me sick.
Detained Beslan Gunman Says Maskhadov, Basayev Planned School Takeover
And why was he not arrested in the past? Warlord Shamil Basayev said in a Web site statement that his group was behind the theater raid and promised that future attacks would be even more destructive. (Beslan was the fulfillment of that evil promise)
"The next time, those who come won't make any demands, won't take hostages," Basayev said on a Chechen Web site. Their "main goal will be destroying the enemy and exacting maximum damage."
Basayev claimed the attack was planned without the knowledge of the breakaway republic's elected leader, Aslan Maskhadov. He asked Maskhadov's forgiveness for preparing the raid in secret and said he would resign from all posts in the rebel hierarchy.
--- So why is Maskhdov not under arrest for violating Basayev's orders? In addition Basayev was a known al-Qaeda terrorists (hospital seizure) before the Moscow theater attack so Basayev having him in his organization makes him an accomplice to terror.
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Don't be fooled by the Jihad's useful idiots.
Yea, that's me ... a communist shill. I repeatedly post articles that take a pro-communist stance. I point out the examples (no matter how hard they are to find nor how incomplete in their background) the positives of communism. /s
What the heck are you talking about? Have you ever read a Bible, there are five books in the Torah alone!
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From my letter you are reading and responding to:
Remember that the Torah is the first five books of the Bible, written around 4000-6000 years ago.
You either do not comprehend what you read, or do not have the intellectual honesty to bother reading others responses to you. It took a lot of work to gather the refutation of your slander, It is difficult to intelligently discuss a point with someone who's only defense is to stick their fingers in their ears and yell "I can't hear you."
Try a little bit harder ok? Or go back to DU where repeating empty rhetoric is lauded as a valid thought process.
Thanks for the ping. EXCELLENT Post!
What you said is proof, beyond anything else that an islamic is an islamic, unless they begin to show something else...a whole LOT of something else..not token expressions of indignation just to save their own skins.
In WWII, we didn't differentiate between the Nazis in uniform and the Nazis who were not in uniform. Nazi civilians in Bavaria were all just as evil as the guys pulling the triggers.
Same goes for islamism. Either they change themselves, which they will not do since it is a cult, or we will assist them by doing what needs to be done to protect ourselves [indeed the entire world] from their tyrranical desires.
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Deeds not words. When the Chechen rebels start arresting the terrorists in their camps and the Chechen and non Chechen leaders of these terrorists then their protestations of ignorance and outrage are a ploy - bad cop good cop. Maskhadov playing Sinn Fein to their Basayev's IRA.
You can take Islam out of bloodlust, but you can't take bloodlust out of Islam.
"They don't want to kill us". If you want to bet your life and your family's lives on that, thats your business. I have no intention of betting my family's life on it or mine for that matter.
I hope your prayers are answered but these people are islamist who can never be trusted by anyone familiar with their cult of death.
There you have it. Mosnews says, that one of the terrorists said, that a man nicknamed Polkovnik at a meeting in a forrest said, that Maskhadov said, that we must carry out the attack.
I come to no such conclusion about Maskhadov's involvement based on this.
What exactly should be Russia's Chechen policy? Just cut it loose, and have the ethnic Russians decamp? Maybe Russia should, although I am not sure that will pacify the situation frankly.
Thus far, Russia's Chechen policy hasn't worked very well. Then again, Chechen freedom didn't work out either.
No one is in any way justifying the actions of the terrorists, but if heavy-handed tactics did little more than fuel the brutality witnessed in Beslan, more intense heavy-handed brutality is not going to fix anything at all.
The second thing, and this of course is one of those hind-sight is 20/20 things...at this stage Russia should not have a Chechen policy at all!
Chechnya, along with any other countries that were part of the Soviet Union against their will, should have been freed.
Eventually, NATO is going to handle this mess.
I think that eventually, we will see the creation of a very special military branch trained and equipped to handle these sorts of things.
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