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Appeal for two Chechen doctors in Hamburg from the Society for Threatened Peoples Take action! We finally sent out our appeal for the two Chechen doctors in Hamburg to Society for Threatened Peoples E-Mail list. We would be very glad and thankful if you could also join in the action. That's why I here send you the appeal in German and English. Thank you all very much in advance, Best wishes, Sarah ################################################# ##################### Refugee Status and working permit for two chechen doctors in Hamburg Not many refugees from Chechnya were able to reach Germany. Even the few who are here are not safe. Most of the applications for political asylum are denied by the german authorities. There is safe haven for the Chechen in the Russian Federation thinks the German Government. The Chechen doctors Muslim Zoubaraev und Hawash Elmurzaev (Articel in The Chechen Times, No 14) are threatend to be deported back to Russia. They are highly qualified doctors who lend their aid unresevedly to the wounded and sick during boths of the wars in Chechnya. That is why they were persecuted in Russia and together with several collegues had to flee. Society for Threatened Peoples asks you to join in the appeal for political asylum for these two couragous doctors and send the following E-Mail to the senator for the interiour of the city of Hamburg, Mr.Dirk Nockemann. Thank you very much for your help! E-Mail: poststelle@bfi-a.hamburg.de Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Herrn Innensenator Dirk Nockemann Sehr geehrter Herr Senator, ich bin sehr in Sorge um das weitere Schicksal der beiden in Hamburg lebenden tschetschenischen Ärzte Muslim Zoubarajew und Hawasch Elmurzaev. Sie hatten sich während des ersten und zweiten Krieges in Tschetschenien beispielhaft für ihre kriegsverletzten Landsleute eingesetzt und wurden aufgrund dessen in Russland verfolgt. Zusammen mit anderen Medizinern gelang ihnen die Flucht. Während ihre Kollegen in den Niederlanden, Frankreich oder den USA längst Asyl bekommen haben, wurde der Asylantrag dieser beiden mutigen und beruflich außerordentlich gut qualifizierten Ärzte in Deutschland abgelehnt. Ich appelliere eindringlich an Sie: Bitte setzen Sie sich dafür ein, dass diese beiden beiden Tschetschenen und ihre Familien bei uns ein Bleiberecht erhalten, so dass auch deutsche Patienten von der fachlichen und persönlichen Kompetenz dieser Ärzte profitieren können. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Translation Dear Senator, I am very worried about the fate of two chechen doctors, Mr. Muslim Zoubaraev and Mr. Hawash Elmurzaev living currently in Hamburg. During the first and the second war in Chechnya they lent their aid unreservedly to the their wounded countrymen and because of that were persecuted in Russia. Together with other members of their team they had to flee. Their collegues in the Netherlands, France and the US were granted asylum but the appeal for asylum by these two highly qualified and couragous doctors was denied by Germany. I urgently appeal to you to intervene in the case of these two doctors and their families so that they can stay here safely and german patients can profit from their professional and personal knowledge. Sincerely,
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1.11.2003 19:47 MSK Chronicle of murders in Chechnya CHECHNYA. Chechen Committee for National Salvation press service informs that on 25 October security services officials killed three young men and a woman in Nagornoe village of Grozny district in Chechnya. It became known to the Committee that a group of servicemen in security forces arrived at the village, surrounded one of the houses and opened random fire. Four people were killed as a result. Among the killed are 30-year-old mother of two Movlatkhan Salghiraeva and 19-year-old Anzor Israilov; names of other two victims are to be confirmed. According to the military men's version, they came to the village to arrest young men suspected of having connections with Chechen militants, but the suspects put up armed resistance. The flats fired at by the military have burnt to the ground. Russian security services officials drove away in the direction of Grozny. According to the Committee press service's information, in the afternoon of 28 October on the outskirts of Tashkala village in Staropromyslovskiy district of Grozny, two Chechen Home Ministry officials were shot dead. Local residents say that the attackers shot the men from automatic weapons and disappeared. According to NGOs Council information, on 30 October Grozneft oil company office came under fire. Two security guards were killed. PRIMA News Agency
[2003-10-31-Chech-06] Interfax. Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003, 5:32 PM Moscow Time MOSCOW. Nov 2 (Interfax) - The Chechen Security Council has questioned the authenticity of declarations by certain federal officials concerning the scope of reconstruction work done in the Chechen social sphere. "I have instructed my subordinates to carefully examine the implementation of a federal reconstruction program for the Chechen social sector, because, in our opinion, repeated statements by certain federal officials concerning the scope of work that has already been done do not quite accurately reflect the real picture," Chechen Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudayev told Interfax on the phone. In particular, Dudayev questioned a report by officials from the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade that 454 schools have been restored in Chechnya and that there are as many schools in the republic now as before the hostilities began. "However, in downtown Grozny alone, where schools No. 1, 2, 12, and others stood earlier, there are no even walls and only weeds are growing now, not to mention the schools that existed in other parts of the city and in rural areas," he said. Dudayev said several schools in Chechnya were repaired by international humanitarian organizations, and only an insignificant number of schools have been restored under the federal program. The Security Council secretary also denied statements by the Russian State Construction Committee (Gosstroi), declaring that all newly built municipal houses in Grozny are commissioned only when they are provided with heating, electricity, and water supplies. "Unfortunately, the reality is different. There is no heating and water in the houses, and electricity is supplied very irregularly," Dudayev said. Moreover, the reconstruction of private houses in Chechnya has not been started this year at all, he said. "In the run-up to the Duma elections, the media regularly publish statements by government officials and parliamentarians saying that the reconstruction of destroyed houses, educational, and medical institutions in Chechnya is so well-organized that you just wonder in what environment they are living," he said. Attempts to force refugees back to Chechnya Officials from the Council of Non-Governmental Organizations reportedreferring to the Social Refugee Committee that power was shut off inSatsita refugee camp on October 29. Local authorities are blaming it onthe lack of capacity of the camp’s transformer. At the same time former residents of Bella refugee camp claim that theirtransformers are now for sale at a lumber yard in the village ofTroitskaya, which belongs to a relative of one of the officials ofMigration Service of Ingushetia. Chechen forced settlers («muhajirs»)are getting ready to file a lawsuit because their rights have been violated. Cold weather makes lives of refugees harder The recent fall/winter cold weather made the lives of the Chechen«muhajirs» on the territory of Ingushetia even harder. Low pressure ingas lines to the camps resulted in single-digit Celsius temperatures(lower 30s Fahrenheit) in many tents. The refugees say they have to wraptheir children in warm clothes and sleep with their clothes on, becauseit gets even colder at night. Shabby tents are another problem that concerns the residents of therefugee camps. Over a half of these tents have used up their resourcesthinkable and unthinkable, and are now totally worn out. But theIngushetian authorities, who are trying to force the refugees back toChechnya, are not taking any steps to improve the living conditions inthe refugee camps, - CCNR Press Center reported (Chechen Committee forNational Rescue). Kavkaz-Center News2003-11-02 23:56:12 |