Dear Excellencies, I, Aslan Maskhadov, the democratically elected President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, write this desperate appeal in the name of my people, the victims of a genocidal war whose daily murder has yet to awaken the conscience of the world you lead.
This is a research which is entitled to an introductory international legal study of the genocide case of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and its people.
February 23, 1944 is the most tragic date in the history of the Waynakh people. On that memorable day, according to the direct order of the Soviet head of state, Joseph Stalin the total deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan began with the subsequent liquidation of the National Authority (Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). All of the people were officially blamed for “treason and mass collaboration with the German fascists.”
We present you the non-official English translation of Austrian Public Prosecutor’s indictment in the murder of Chechen refugee Umar Israilov that occured on 13 January 2009.
We present you an informational leaflet of Russian Anti-War Club that written in 2007. These leaflets are being distributed among passerbys during anti-war meetings in Moscow. It is written for Russian readers and oriented initially on them, but we think that it is enough informative and could be interesting and helpful everybody, not only for Russians.
We present you the speech of Professor Mohammad Mousa Adel Shashani which was at the Conference held at the European Parliament in Brussels, be titled “Countering Violence and Creating Justice in the Caucasus“, and organized on Dec. 8, 2005 by the Green –EFA party in the European Parliament and the World Chechen Congress.
We present you Professor Mohammad Shashani’s testimony in front of the U.S. Helsinki Commission (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe) in 1995.
The name of material is “The Russian – Chechen Tragedy: A Way to Peace and Democracy” conditional independence under an international administration, published by The Ministery of Foreign Affairs of Chechen Republic Ichkeria in February 2003.
