Child Torture in Chechnya
Caution: shocking material. Do not read if you are of a sensitive nature. If only more people on this planet were of a sensitive nature… From Amnesty International’s site.
Adam Abubakarov, a 17-year-old Chechen, has had no contact with his family since February 2000 when he was arrested at an army checkpoint in the town of Urus-Martan on suspicion of being a Chechen fighter. Amnesty International fears that he has “disappeared”.
His parents have been told unofficially that he has been held in several filtration camps (army-run prison camps that allegedly “filter out” Chechen fighters from the fleeing Chechen population), where torture and ill-treatment are rife. His father was reportedly told in September 2000 that his son was in a prison in Rostov-on-Don. The authorities have denied that anyone of his son’s name has been arrested, and no investigation has been opened into the case.
Fears that Adam Abubakarov may have been tortured arise from several reports of ill-treatment and torture of children in the “Internat” in Chernokozovo and other filtration camps in Chechnya during the first half of 2000.
For example, a 16-year-old boy called Albert, originally from the village of Davydenko, was reportedly beaten and gang-raped by guards at Chernokozovo camp. The guards subsequently referred to him by the female name “Maria”. Timur, also aged 16, was reportedly beaten while held in May 2000 in a camp in Urus-Martan in order to force him to confess that his uncle, who was arrested at the same time, was a Chechen fighter. Timur was released after the family paid US $700 to camp guards.
A survivor of the Chernokozovo camp told Amnesty International that between 16 January and 5 February 2001 he had shared a cell with a 17-year-old youth whose teeth had been sawn off with a metal file and whose lips were shredded, making it virtually impossible for him to eat or speak. The same survivor also said he saw a 14-year-old girl being gang-raped by prison officers in a corridor. The girl had reportedly come to visit her mother, who was detained in the camp.
The whereabouts of many children and adults from the Chechen Republic who have been arrested by Russian forces remain unknown, and none of the cases of alleged torture and ill-treatment of detainees has been investigated.
The measures taken by the Russian authorities are insufficient to end such abuses of human rights, and children who are arrested remain at risk of torture and ill-treatment.
I can't understand why we never hear about these things in the mainstream media.
It's especially baffling since the mainstream media is zionist controlled and they despise Putin.
You would think they would take the time to highlight the abuses that take place under his watch.
But, I guess because the victims are muslim, they prefer to stay quiet.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Because it doesn't serve their agenda. The Americans have their eye on the Caucasus region very much -- they would like to get their grubby hands on all that oil, and strategically it's a very important gateway between Europe and Asia. That's why they are happily pushing the myth that the Caucasus is a Taliban hideout. The US bombed the Pankisi gorge in Georgia, close to Chechnya, some years back, under this pretence. Putin thanked them.
Putin is merely their rival competitor. But they share the same value system. Sure, he'd like to be number one, or at least to run level, whereas they want a unipolar new world order.
But dear sister, none of these elitist tyrants are anything more than humanoid brutes, at the end of the day.
"Without mercy, a man is like a beast"
Sansho Dayu, film by Kenji Mizoguchi
This dates from at least seven years ago, maybe even more.
Zanjabil, are you so desperate to carry out your mission of rubbishing Russia that you have to dredge up old news? How is the weather in Langley, Virginia today?
SSullivan:
So the report was from six years ago, and that makes it OK? Fine, then no need to feel disturbed... After all, those children have now been unraped, the quarter of the population killed has been brought back to life, and the Russian occupation troops have left Chechnya. What rosy-tinted spectacles you have on, SSullivan.
No, it doesn't make it okay, nor does it make it true. If it is true, it is disgusting. Then again, lots of disgusting things have been done on both sides.
You failed to make it clear that you were posting old news as something new, which makes your motives suspect. How is the weather in Langley, Virginia?
SSullivan, you can try to smear me all you like. First you said I was a disinfo agent. You said I deliberately spread lies. You now say I'm conning people.
Unfortunately what is happening in Chechnya is NOT HISTORY. When it becomes history, I hope the people who looked the other way will burn with shame.
I have no idea what the motives behind your smear campaign are, SSullivan.
But it is significant that almost the only people who care about what is happening in Chechnya are fellow Muslims.
Zanjabil,
Your attempt to portray the Chechen conflict as Muslim vs Christian is about as disingenuous as your 'SSullivan' jibes are juvenile. The truth is that there is and has been barbarism on BOTH SIDES. I don't claim the Russians are innocent, nor do I buy for a moment the whole "innocent Chechen" thing you peddle with depressing regularity.
When I see you posting on something other than yet another attack on Russia, perhaps I'll reconsider my conclusion that you are simply one of those who seeks to undermine the economic and political independence of Russia.
It is highly ironic of you to be accusing me of a smear campaign when every single one of your posts is attacking Russia. From that I can't help but conclude you are a single-issue guy with an distinct agenda.
Kindly quote an example of what you allege. To my knowledge, I have neither presented the Chechen resistance fighters as innocent nor guilty. But Chechen women, elderly and children I do consider innocent. Don't you?
Previously you claimed that I was a CIA operative working from Langley. Are you taking that back?
You are mistaken. Many of my posts are attacking the illegal occupation of Chechnya. None of my posts has attacked Russia, which is a country I feel some fondness for.
Did I ever claim to be a guy?
I don't think it is right or proper to apportion innocence on the basis of gender. By that logic, Private Lynndie England was innocent of the crimes she so obviously participated in. Children are a different matter entirely.
The two are not mutually exclusive concepts. Undermining Russia is very much a current CIA project. In all seriousness though, I doubt you are a Langley operative.
You are splitting hairs here. An attack on the 'occupation' is an implicit attack on the 'occupiers'. I would welcome any reference to international judical decisions rendering Russian occupation of Chechnya 'illegal'. Perhaps it could be debated as being 'immoral', but whether or not it is 'illegal' is an entirely different matter.
It was meant in the non gender-specific way.
Sullivan, why do you waste my time and everybody else's with your accusations which prove to be baseless time after time?
If you've got something to prove about me, then prove it. Don't just throw mud.
You are under no obligation to read or respond to my comments, so quit bleating on about my wasting your time. As for wasting the time of others, don't presume to speak for them - let them speak for themselves.
I have made no accusations, just observations based on what you post. It is my personal opinion that your posts fit neatly into a recent pattern of vilification of Russia on a multitude of fronts. Your incredibly immature response to my observations was to haul out that old Jewish reliable of comparing me to a Nazi... hence your repeated and distinctly infantile SSullivan references.
As I have said before, there have been serious wrongs perpetrated by both sides, but as conflicts go, it is small. Meanwhile in Palestine, Iraq and Sudan (amongst other places) genocides are happening, yet you stick unswervingly to the single and comparatively minor issue of Chechnya. I find that just a little strange.