Open Letter                                                                                                                                                06.01.2007 
 

Stop a new crime against humanity 

 

On  November 1, 2006, we witnessed a new era in the spread of nuclear weapon in the world. An act of nuclear terror using radioactive isotope of a rear element polonium-210 was committed in London, on the territory of NATO countries, against Britain citizen Aleksandr Litvinenko, a colonel of the Russian FSB in the past, and then a strong  human rights defender. This time too the Russian special services are under grave suspicion, although, as always in such cases, the Kremlin denies its involvement. 

Today’s authorities in the Kremlin have over recent years been putting pressure on the Western democracies by protecting the regimes in North Korea and Iran. These regimes are trying to create nuclear weapons despite the international initiative against this.  

The Russian myth that some terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan are creating a “dirty bomb” turned out to be, mildly saying, exaggerated. It is clear that nuclear technology is not available to people in mountain gorges. Time shows that this “canard” about the insurgents’ capability had the aim of diverting blame from the real nuclear terrorists. 

Moscow, confusing the free world with the tales of “Chechen terrorism”, has occupied the territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. And from this isolated from the rest of the world “zone”, reports of “unidentified illnesses and epidemics” that periodically strike the adults and children of this country have made it through the information blockade and massive lie. All these years the Kremlin has been testing weapons of mass destruction on the Chechens there. Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who  was murdered on 7 October 2006 in the centre of Moscow just revealed the truth about those “strange epidemics”. This blatant murder of a journalist was a rallying cry for the entire free world. 

During such a nuclear attack, radioactive elements can be dispersed into the air, go into the ground and contaminate the water supply. Unnoticed they can contaminate food and drink. This is the method used for a terrorist attack in England. And it is not yet known how many other people received lesser doses of radiation in Europe and when they will die from various “strange” illnesses.  

The countries of the free world are left with a limited choice. They can agree with “isolated” terrorist attacks, and wait until the Kremlin terrorists begin mass deliveries of the means of nuclear terror to their “friends”, or they can stop this activity, not considering the short-term benefit of Russian gas, oil and other attractions. It should be borne in mind that the profit gained goes towards the organisation of newer and greater acts of terror, unavoidably leading to the demoralisation of free society. 

We call on the governments of the Western Europe and the international public to set up independent, international commissions, including public ones, to investigate the crimes against humanity in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Russia and Europe. We call on the UN Security Council and other international organisations to consider as a matter of urgency the nuclear threat to life. The threat is too great to be left until tomorrow.

 

  1 Nadezhda Banchik, Human Rights activist, journalist, USA 

  2 Leonid Plyushch, human rights activist, (member of the Initiative Group to Protect Human Rights in the USSR, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group). Man of letters (France) 

  3 Viktor Faynberg, human rights activist, spoke on Red Square in Moscow against the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, (France) 

  4 Vissarion Gugushvili, prime minister in the government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia (Georgia) 

  5 Akhyad Idigov, head of the international relations committee of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria 

  6 Alla Dudayeva, widow of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev (Lithuania) 

  7 Viktoria Poupko, founder and Head of Boston Committee Against Ethnic Cleansing (USA) 

 8 Algirdas Endriukaitis, general secretary of the international group of parliamentarians on the problems of Chechnya (Lithuania) 
  9  Dainius Žalimas, deputy head of the department of international law, Vilnius University (Lithuania) 
 10  Andrew P. Grigorenko, President of the General Petro Grigorenko Fundation (USA) 
 11 Mykola Horbal, human rights champion, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group; deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliamentof Ukraine),  since 1994 (Ukraine)  
 12 Hofertina Romualda, signatory to the Independence of Lithuania (Lithuania)

 13 Ella Kesaeva,  Voice of Beslan Head (Russia, North Ossetia) 

 14 Vladimir Bukovsky, human rights champion, the former political prisoner of the USSR (Great Britain)

 15 Ozolas Romualdas, signatory to the Independence of Lithuania (Lithuania)

 16 Enn Tarto, former political prisoner of the USSR: three-terms member of the Parliament of Estonia; former head of the Parliamentary Group on Chechenia problem 

 17 Ekkehard Maass, President of the German – Caucasian Society (Germany)

 18 Carl Eric Foverskov, member of the Presidium of the Committee Chechenie (Denmark)

 19 Valery Kalabugin, member of the Council of the Institute for Human Rights (Estonia)

 20 Tamaz Bachulashvili (USА) 

 21 Giorgiy Alania (Czech Republic) 

 22 Djemal Bejanidze (Georgia) 

 23 Besic Lomidze (Georgia 

 24 Vakhtang Berikashvili (Georgia) 

 25 Nukri Kvaliashvili (Georgia) 

 26 Zaza Macharashvili (Georgia) 

 27 Beca Gonashvili (Georgia) 

 28 Shavleg Gegechkori (Georgia) 

 29 Tamaz Bachulashvili (USА) 

 30 Nikolai Neparidze (Georgia) 

 31 Serhiy ZHdankin  (Ukraine)  

 32 Malsagov Akhmed, President of the Global Fund for Chechens Noy  

 33 Magomadov Abubakar, head of the Committee on Defence and Security of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria  

 34 Balaudi Beloev, head of the Committee on Human Rights of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria  

 35 Dokka Amagov, head of the Committee on Mass-media of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria  

 36 Sheykhi Ibragimov (Ichkeria) 

 37 Usam Bamatgiriev (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria)

 38  Akhmad Sardali (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) 

 39  Letas Palmaitis, psychologist, member of the International Movement for  Decolonization of the Caucasus

 40  Rafis Kasharov (Russia, Tatarstan) 

 41 Saidemin Ibragimov, President of the International Association Peace and Human Rights (France)  

 42 Eduard Kuznetsov, former political prisoner of the USSR (Israel)   

 43 Dmitriy Bogucharsky (Canada)  

 44 Svetlana Ivanova, Journalism student (Russia)  

 45 Dziunsay Terasava, activist of the International movement for Peace (Japan)  

 46 Kakha Kukava, Parliament of Georgia, Member 
 47 Victor Suvorov, (UK)

 48 Carol Leborg, analyst (Canada)

 49 Dr. Kastytis Stalioraitis (Lithuania)

 50 Refat Chubarov, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliamentof Ukraine), secretary of the Human Rights, Rights of Minorities and Inter-Ethnic Relation Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament(Ukraine)

 51 Rafis Kashapov (Tatarstan)

 52 Oles Shevchenko, human rights activist, MP of Ukrainian Parliament 1990-94, former political prisoner (Ukraine)

 53 Sergey Kryukov (Russia)
 

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