Путинский пастор разжигает межнациональную рознь
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There are reports that the President of Russia's Republic of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, has ordered the killing of the prominent human rights activist, Magomed Mutsolgov. The independent news portal, Angusht.com, cites sources within Ingushetia's law enforcement agencies saying Yevkurov is eliminating all dissent in the republic.
The sources said that Yevkurov had ordered the assassination of the leader of Ingushetia's popular opposition movement, Maksharip Aushev, in October 2009. Angusht.com also reported that the attempt to assassinate Imam Khamzat Chumakov on 14 September 2010 was made on the orders of President Yevkurov. Magomed Ozdoyev, writing on Angusht.com, said Yevkurov wanted Chumakov killed because of the Imam's influence on young people. As many as 3,000-5,000 people regularly attended his sermons, in which he often accused the local authorities of involvement in extrajudicial killings and kidnappings in Ingushetia. Moreover, reports say Yevkurov's security forces have issued a "serious warning" to Magomed Khazbiev, one of the few remaining leaders of the republic's opposition movement. This was after Khazbiev reported that Yevkurov was behind the assassination attempt on Imam Chumakov. Khazbiev and his family are under constant harassment. http://www.waynakh.com/eng/2010/09/yevkurov-plans-to-kill-a-well-known-human-rights-defender/
The Chechen and Ingush diaspora in Finland has turned to the Finnish Ombudsman for Minorities, Eva Biaudet, for protection against threats by Lutheran pastor Juha Molari, member of the "Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee". The pastor claims that refugees from North Caucasus residing in Finland are linked to terrorism.
On 24 September 2010, Molari wrote in his blog that there were no genuine refugees from the Caucasus in Finland. "Everyone who has fled Caucasus and arrived in Finland is linked to terrorism," the pastor claimed. Earlier, he wrote that asylum applicants were "brought into Finland because of their terrorist links." Chechens and Ingushetians living in Finland regard Molari's allegations as incitement to racial hatred. Moreover, Molari's statements are an affront to the Finnish immigration authorities, given that people guilty of crimes are not eligible for asylum. Read the open letter of the Nakh diaspora to the Finnish Ombudsman for Minorities:
Only one spectator showed up for the final hearing in the killing of Magomed Yevloyev. He was a broad-beamed, ruddy-faced man in a carefully pressed black suit, and once in the courtroom he removed his tall fur hat, set it on the bench beside him and waited for a chance to speak.Sunlight streamed in the window, bouncing off the white walls, but the old man had brought a heaviness with him into the room. When the time came, Yakhya Yevloyev stood and recited a litany of evidence not gathered witnesses not interviewed, threads left dangling that might have led to a murder conviction in his son's death.The room went silent out of respect for the man's loss, and for a moment it seemed as if the process could rewind 18 months to the beginning, when his son, an opposition leader in the southern republic of Ingushetia, was hustled into a police car and shot through the head at point-blank range.
As the Moscow bombings remind, the simmering insurgency and brutal crackdown in the Caucasus have left a landscape of damaged women, some all too ready to spread their pain to Russia's heartland.The last time Patimat Magomedova saw her daughter, she was puttering around the house, manicuring her nails and using henna to dye her hair bright red. Maryam Sharipova, 27, had traveled a thousand miles to Moscow and climbed onto a crowded subway train at rush hour with an explosives-packed belt strapped around her waist. She was accompanied by a 17-year-old girl, also from Dagestan, who blew herself up at another station. In the Russian news media, the women were immediately dubbed "black widows." Their assault on the subway was taken as proof that the country had been shuttled back to the fearsome days when hollow-eyed female militants stalked Moscow and other cities far from the wars where their men fought Russian forces. The subway bombings also sent ripples of unease across the turbulent, mostly Muslim republics strung along Russia's southern edge. But it came as slim surprise that women were ready to die. This is a landscape of damaged women, grieving losses they dare not dwell upon. The closer you get to the fighting in the Caucasus, the murkier it appears. The violence in Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia is not easy to classify -- it is a mix of rebels who want independence, Islamist extremists bent on waging jihad, local clan and gang warfare and sectarian strife. And as the fighting intensifies, it is the men who disappear. Masked agents pound on the door and cart them off for questioning. They come back beaten, or not at all. Sometimes the men are rebels; other times, their affiliations are bafflingly vague. It is the women who are left behind, their status and material comforts tangled up in the choices of their fathers, sons and husbands.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/13/world/la-fg-women-bombers13-2010apr13
Euroopan komission alainen tilastoyksikkö Eurostat julkaisi tiistaina vuoden 2009 pakolaistilastonsa. Eurooppaan tuli viime vuonna lähes 261 000 turvapaikanhakijaa; näistä lähes 48.000 Ranskaan. Kaiken kaikkiaan Venäjän Federaatiosta tulleiden turvapaikanhakijoiden määrä oli yli 20.000 henkilöä, eli toiseksi suurin määrä heti afgaanipakolaisten jälkeen.
Suomen osalta tilastot osoittavat huimaa nousua Venäjän federaatiosta tulleiden turvapaikanhakijoiden osalta. Pakolaisneuvonnan tilastoinnin mukaan Suomeen tuli turvapaikanhakijoita Venäjältä vuonna 2007 kaikkiaan 172 henkilöä, vuonna 2008 yhteensä 209 henkilöä, ja vuonna 2009 peräti 602 henkilöä. Taustalla on Venäjän Federaation alueella yhä heikentyvä ihmisoikeustilanne, josta EU joutuu kantamaan oman vastuunsa. Tosin Venäjän maahanmuuttoviraston mukaan 44 % venäläisistä pakolaisista olisi muista IVY-maista tulleita venäjänkielisiä pakolaisia. Tämä väite ei ole kovin uskottava, sillä Eurostatin tilastointi rakentuu kansallisuuteen eikä kieleen. Kenties Venäjä ennakoi tulevaa historiankirjoitusta ja tilastoi jo tänään pohjoiskaukasialaiset ulkomaalaisiksi?Lähteet: Eurostat, Pakolaisneuvonta, RIA Novosti
