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How many more Chechen Kids have to die ?

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Sunday September 16, 2007 23:47

by maciej roszak - free caucasus committee

roszak at o2 dot pl

0879667317

Thursday, 20th of September, at 2 PM

picket in front of the Polish Embassy

5 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Last Thursday, 13th of September, three Chechen girls, aged 6, 10 and 13, have died of exposure in the Bieszczady Mountains, in southern Poland, trying to illegally cross the borders of Ukraine, Polish and Slovakian (EU). Border guards were leaded to the childrens' remains by their mother, a 36-year-old Chechen national who had early been stopped with a two-year-old baby. The family had spent four days in the cold and wet.

Probably the family had intended to cross into Slovakia through Poland, and then into Austria.
Almost 3,600 Chechens have applied for refugee status in Poland this year, most of them will never get it. Polish authorities explains that Chechen people are safely in their country! The reports of the Amnesty International shows that Chechnya is a country ruled by fear and terror. Hundreds of people are missing and nobody can feel safe.

How many more Chechen children have to die, when the Polish and EU authorities will at last change their anti-refugee policies? We demand opening of the EU border for people who are running away from the war and death danger. Stop hypocrisy of the EU governments which say more about human rights and at the same time they let the victims of war die during the crossing the EU borders illegaly.

Comments (1 of 1)

Solidarity Message

by C.

Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:13

I am interested in the location of the protest at the Polish Embassy in Dublin and wonder
if you will add in links to the stories on the problems with refugee and asylum between the
borders of the EU and the Chechen region?

This morning's newspapers have a lot of inter-related stories on the political difficulties
between secession states and the EU, including the Conservatists reaction to the Kosovo
issue and the political isolation of Serbia by the agreed alliances between the EU and Kosovo.
The problems stem from the willingness of states to aceed to the EU who were
formerly allied with Russia and great political instability seems to be happening on the
Eastern borders of the Union. There are varied photogrpahic and articles on Chechyna
accessible through google and in the IMC's. I hope that the protest goes well and that
you take some images and put them on here. it seems more often than not that
ordinary people get caught up in the territorial and border disputes of the great powers
and self-determination is dropped for further military alliances- which solve nothing for
anyone.The link is a 2002 article by Politkovskaya on the Chechen kids.

Solidarity!