| eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 22/5/2004 Chechen residents resist illegal actions of security service officers At about midnight on May 16, a group of Kadyrov's people [officers of the Chechen president's security service], who arrived in two Zhiguli cars without number plates, rushed into the house of a local situated in a dead-end in the Chechen town of Shali. Witnesses of the happening living nearby blocked the dead-end with a Kamaz trailer. The raiders searched the house tearing wall-paper off and taking floor boards away. Not having detected any things valuable for them, they decided to leave the scene. Having found themselves in a trap, Kadyrov's people opened desultory fire. Locals categorically demanded that Kadyrov's people should abandon the practice of committing arbitrary night attacks on private houses. When the raiders make excuses for the damage done and promised not to repeat such raids, the locals removed the trailer. Source: Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship 2004-05-22 14:51 UAE Red Crescent Society suggests building orphanage for Chechen kids DUBAI, May 22 (RIA Novosti's Yury Zinin) - The Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates has signalled readiness to build a residential school for children from Chechnya, according to an organization official He was a member of the delegation, which visited Chechnya to look into the humanitarian situation there on May 17-18. The society has proposed helping Russia build and equip a residential school for 1,500 orphaned children. Since 2000 the Arab Emirates have provided $550,000 in aid to Chechnya and are expected to allocate the same amount of money on different projects in the near future. Authorities in Moscow and Grozny have been very cooperative towards the humanitarian organization, noted the official. Russia's emergencies ministry, for example, supports the UAE's initiatives aimed at aiding the Chechen people. UAE representatives have visited the republic six times over the past four years. |