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Protest action against systematic violation of human rights in the North Caucasus

by Babel-Fish | August 21, 2008 at 09:24 pm | 117 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

Russia has a deep history of violating human rights, these people however are protesting and they now have the rights to do so and rightly so.

RUSSIA, Moscow. On July 10 in Moscow at Novopushkinsky Square, the Moscow department of the United Civil Front conducted a protest meeting against the systematic violation of human rights in the North Caucasus. Participants included representatives from the Committee on Anti-War actions, the human rights center “Memorial”, and the “Defense” movement - a total of about 30 people.

The organizers' statement said: “Do not believe deceitful propaganda!

Violence in the North Caucasus continues as before. Instead of proposing social projects to Russian citizens of this region, the Putin - Medvedev regime prefers to solve problems by shootings and by repression. Hostage-taking by intelligence agencies and unjustified aggression with respect to people who are only suspected of connections with fighters in the North Caucasus long ago became standard. In Moscow and throughout central Russia, people do not understand to what extent the prevailing situation is monstrous. What exactly is occurring in the North-Caucasian republics?