| Caucasian Knot 14/9/2005 Heart diseases smite Chechnya A great number of adult residents of Chechnya have heart diseases. Doctors also mention that this rate is on the rise among children. "Seventy-two thousand people in the republic have various heart diseases. This is a huge figure, especially considering that not all sick people are registered," a republican Health Ministry official told Caucasian Knot. "Such diseases are very expensive to treat, so few can count to be cured." "Children with heart diseases number 1,300 in Chechnya currently. The situation here is also critical, but now the parents of such children can be hopeful. A British humanitarian organisation has started work in Moscow, and it is ready to provide assistance in treating sick children. People from our republic now can apply directly there," he says. Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent www.eng.kavkaz.memo.ru eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 14/9/2005 Disastrous living conditions causes health problems The dwellers of a multi-storey block of flats (No 31 A) in Kirov Avenye in Grozny's Leninskii district complain about extremely poor living conditions. Sewage flows have flooded the basement of the building and muddy puddles have appeared on the premises. Children there have various skin diseases, rash and itch and it is impossible to go out because of the stench. Besides, there are swarms of rats, let alone mosquitoes, according to a local resident. Yet local officials do take no action, saying there are no funds to replace the sewage system in the building. "We send special machinery there to clean the basements from sewage flows, but this helps little. They are filled again almost immediately. Those who repaired the building should be made accountable, but it is two years and a half since then, and it is unlikely that those guilty will be found," a housing and utilities sector official says. The situation is worse still because there is a paediatric polyclinic on the ground floor of the building in Kirov Avenye. However, the district administration seems to be absolutely indifferent towards this fact. Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 15/9/2005 Environmental disaster in Grozny Chechnya's State Council yesterday held a meeting at which questions connected with the environmental situation in the Chechen capital were discussed. The situation was recognised critical, a source with the Chechen governmental staff told Caucasian Knot. The situation is said to be especially critical in Grozny's Zavodskoi district where industrial facilities and oil refineries were located previously. Besides, there is a great number of so-called "condensate holes" and mini plants for oil products there. The air there is contaminated with hydrogen sulphide fumes which are released when oil is refined without the proper equipment, according to the source. "Immediately in Grozny, there is a major source of radiation which must be urgently eliminated. However, we don't have either funds, or other functionality to solve that problem. Treatment facilities and special grounds for waste disposal must be built, which all requires huge financial expenditures," he said. Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 19/9/2005 Journalists' rights abused Officers of the Shali District Division of Internal Affairs took away a recording of a public meeting that took place in Novye Atagi earlier today from journalists of the Vesti ("News") Chechnya programme. The public meeting was held not far from the bridge across the river Argun at about 10.00 am. Participants, about 20 in number, mostly female residents of Novye Atagi, Shali district, demanded that persons who had been abducted earlier should be released. In doing so, they blocked the road between Grozny and Novye Atagi. The journalists from the Vesti Chechnya programme came to the scene and talked to participants. After that, accompanied by a local police inspector, they went to the Shali DDIA to learn about the destiny of four detained villagers. As a result, the journalists were able to meet one of the detained men. To the question of one of the journalists "why your waist is bandaged?" the detained man explained that his kidneys hurt. When the item was taped, police officers took the cassette and strongly recommended that the journalists should go home. The reason for the public meeting was the abduction of 10 residents of Novye Atagi on the night of 14 September, according to participants, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society reports. Five of them, severely beaten, were released the next day. Another four are currently kept in the Shali DDIA where a charge of killing one officer of the DDIA has been brought against them. The whereabouts of another one from among the ten men abducted earlier, Islam Bakalov, b. 1987, have since remained unknown. Participants in the public meeting say that the Shali DDIA chief told Mr Bakalov's relatives that district police officers had nothing to do with his abduction and promised them to spare no effort to find him. eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 19/9/2005 Military men detain Chechen woman Federal military men detained Toita Jabrailov, b. 1969, resident in Elistanzhi, Vedeno district, at the entrance to Serzhen-Yurt, Shali district, at about 7.30 am on 16 September. The detained woman was going from Elistanzhi to Grozny on a regular bus. The bus in which Toita was going was stopped by officers of a mobile checkpoint for a document check. Having checked the ID of all passengers in the bus, the Russian military men took Ms Jabrailov out and brought her away without indicating the destination, according to eyewitnesses. Some passengers had tried to prevent the detention of the woman, but the military men beat them for that, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society reports. The detained woman's relatives decline comment on what happened. The likely reason to detain Toita Jabrailov is that one of her relatives is an active member of Chechen separatist units, according to Kharachoi residents. RCIA reports Vedeno district. Chechen Republic Report # 672 The mosque in Kharachoy has been reconstructed On 16 September 2005 the mosque in the village of Kharachoy of the Chechen Vedeno district was open and a special ceremony was held in the village to open the mosque after its reconstruction. The mosque was destroyed in the armed actions in the Chechen Republic. The reconstruction of the mosque has been financed on the money collected by the residents of this settlement. Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation has also allocated some money to reconstruct the mosque. (From our correspondent) Vedeno district. Chechen Republic Report # 671 Detention of a female resident of Elistanzhi village by the Russian military On 16 September 2005 at about 7.30 am the Russian military subjected to arbitrarily detention Jabrailova Toita (born 1969) at the entrance checkpoint to the village of Serzhen-Yurt of the Chechen Shali district. Jabrailova is a resident of the village of Elistanzhi of the Chechen Vedeno district. The woman was going on a bus from Elistanzhi village to Grozny. The bus was stopped by the service personnel manning a mobile checkpoint. According to testimonies of eye-witnesses, having checked the passports of all the passengers of the bus, the military took Toita Jabrailova out of the bus, forced her get into their vehicle and drove away to an unknown destination. Some of the bus passengers made an attempt to prevent the military from arbitrarily detaining the woman but they were beaten up by the military. Relatives of the detained woman have refused to comment on the accident. According to their fellow villagers, Toita Jabrailova must have been subjected to arbitrarily detention because one of her close relatives is an active member of the Chechen guerrilla movement. (From our correspondent) Shatoy district. Chechen Republic Report # 670 Resident of Syaty village is murdered At night from September 17 to September 18, 2005, at about midnight unidentifiable perpetrators killed a 24-year-old resident of the village of Syaty of the Chechen Shatoy district Shita Vekiev. The details of the murder are being established. The heavy artillery of the Russian federal forces shelled the same night the mountainous and forested area in the vicinity of the village of Pamyatoy. Shelling lasted since the midnight until morning of September 18. (From our correspondent) http://www.ria.hrnnov.ru/eng/index.php |