CHECHEN REPUBLIC OF ICHKERIA
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS
We express our deepest condolences and call for an independent transparent
international investigation.
Friday, 03 September 2004
The Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria expresses our deepest condolences to the relatives and
friends of all victims of the hostage taking in Beslan. The Chechen nation, having lost 25 % of its population
at the hands of the Russian state policy of genocide during the last 10 years, know very well the pain of
loosing the loved ones, the horrors of monstrous brutality against innocent defenceless people, children, women
and men. There is no a single Chechen whose relatives and friends have not been murdered, tortured or raped by
the Russian troops and security services since December 1994.
As the
past experience tells us that Russian security services often are involved in planning, executing or
manipulating various terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia, including the apartment bombings in Moscow in
1999 and the hostage taking in the Moscow theatre in 2002, we call upon all Russian citizens to demand from the
Russian government to agree to an independent and transparent international investigation of this hostage taking
in Beslan. We strongly believe that the Chechens, Russians and the international community has the right to know
what actually has happened and who really were the hostage takers and the organisers of this terrorist act, and
we hope that this call will not go unanswered.
Press Office
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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