RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No.
66, Part I, 7 April 2003
Council of Europe condemns Grozny bus bombing
Council of Europe and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) officials
on 4 April condemned the bomb attack that killed eight passengers, mostly female
construction workers, on a Grozny bus the previous day, Interfax reported (see
"RFE/RL Newsline," 4 April 2003). They expressed condolences to the families of
the victims. Also on 4 April, chechenpress.com quoted a representative of the
Chechen State Defense Committee, which is the supreme military council, as denying
that fighters loyal to President Aslan Maskhadov were responsible for the blast.
That representative claimed that Russian special services frequently resort to
such atrocities with the aim of alienating the Chechen population from the resistance
forces. LF
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Comment: As usual the Council of Europe has no doubts and condemns
terrorist attacks supposedly but not certainly of Chechen matrix. Why does it
not condemn also so vehemently the absolute certain terrorist activities
coming from the Russian side and only "urges Russia to ensure alleged abuses"
that it "must do more to implement the rule of law" and obviously without forgetting
to underline twice and trice that "Russia has the right to fight terrorism"??
M.M.