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Repeated introduction of states of emergency in the Chechen Republic.

Martial law introduced in the Chechen Republic on 12 October 1994.

Aslan Maskhadov, Prime Minister of the Chechen provisional Government and former chief of staff of Chechen insurgent forces, won the presidential election with 68.9 per cent of the vote.

This is a Chechen rebel on the front line against the Russian army.

There were continuing additional reports of arbitrary detentions, including by the Chechen Security Service.

8. WFP plans to assist the integration of Chechen IDPs in Daghestan and Ingushetia.

This particularly affects the non Chechen population, not protected by traditional family or clan ties.

On 29 May 1994, a curfew was decreed in the Chechen Republic for one month.

26. In the framework of strengthening the peaceful regulation of the crisis in the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation stated that it had cooperated with OSCE in the Chechen Republic.

The Kremlin refuses to publicly admit that today's terrorism has its roots predominantly in the Chechen war, which is now metastasizing throughout the Northern Caucasus. Chechen fighters and their supporters demonstrate almost daily that the war continues, and countless bold pronouncements, like newly elected Chechen president Alu Alkhanov's recent assertion that effective measures have been found to combat terror, look like mere bloviation.

For the Chechen fighters, he had also supplied 2,900 pairs of steel reinforced anti mine boots.

It also noted that the Ingush population had suffered directly and indirectly from the Chechen conflict.

Kadyrov seemed an effective antidote to the jihadists. Still, the logical conclusion of the Kremlin s Kadyrov policy appears to be precisely what it sought to prevent Chechen independence when it engaged in the first Chechen war almost a generation ago.

22. The Government outlined the measures taken in 1996 to resolve the crisis in the Chechen Republic.

The armed conflict, which severely affected the population of the Republic Chechen and Russian speaking alike has ceased.

But financial inflows into Chechnya are often more destabilizing than helpful. President Akhmat Kadyrov, the murdered Chechen president, was right to suggest that 80 of this money ends up in the pockets of Moscow and regional firms who benefit from the Chechen conflict continuing.

Notably, on 23 November 1997, President Yeltsin signed the Decree on measures for ensuring the further peaceful settlement in the Chechen Republic , and the Agreement on principles of cooperation of the sides until the election of the president and parliament of the Chechen Republic .

As a result, when the second Chechen war began in 1999, the fight was no longer just about Chechen independence from Russia it was a fight for Islam, waged against Christians everywhere. Russia, under Yeltsin s successor, Vladimir Putin, defeated the separatists again, restoring federal control over the territory.

405. The Special Rapporteur is aware that attacks on the right to life of civilians were also committed by Chechen forces.

The allegations from the Chechen Republic as well as two other cases transmitted to the Government are summarized in the paragraphs below.

23. The Government expressed its concern about problems of criminality in the Chechen Republic which were spilling over into the surrounding region.

These included a number of presidential decrees and the signing of agreements for the peaceful settlement of the fighting in the Chechen Republic.

428. Sultan Kurbanov, a Chechen living in Moscow, was reportedly detained from his flat in Moscow by two police officers on 16 January 1996.

By the end of November 1996, most federal troops had been withdrawn from Chechnya and a joint federal Chechen commission had been set up.

Accusing father and son of collaboration with Chechen fighters, they allegedly beat them before detaining them at the Moscow City Department of Internal Affairs.

Several allegations concerned cases of persons alleged to have been tortured or ill treated in the context of the conflict in the Chechen Republic.

The only known attempt at radiological terrorism took place in Moscow in 1995, when a barrel containing radioactive elements was discovered, reportedly placed by Chechen rebels.

Hasan Khamidov, from the village of Terskoe in the Chechen Republic, was allegedly tortured during his detention at the filtration camp in Mozdok in January 1995.

Although crime affects specifically the Russian speaking population, the Assistance Group (AG) is unaware of any official policy of the Chechen authorities or measures of discrimination against minorities.

Ruslan Hajiev, from Grozny in the Chechen Republic, was reportedly beaten with a club on the head during interrogation at the camps in Mozdok and Stavropol, in January 1995.

For example, Roma and Chechen internally displaced children are assisted by provision of textbooks and clothing so they can attend school, and psychosocial counselling is given to traumatized girls and boys.

Currently, given the normalization of the situation in the Chechen Republic, the Office had taken the right decision by making the transition starting in 2006 from emergency response to development assistance mechanisms.

The reports received also suggested that neither the judiciary nor the police of the Chechen administration in Grozny were allowed to take part in investigating or prosecuting local complaints against Russian troops.

With the de facto absence of federal authority, after August 1996, the principal practical responsibility for the protection of human rights is in the hands of the Government of the Chechen Republic.

Severe destruction of Chechen towns and villages with consequent displacement of a large proportion of the civilian population is a conspicuous feature of military actions in the Republic this year as in 1995.

24. The Government provided data of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation showing that the flow of people from the Chechen Republic had not ceased following the withdrawal of Russian troops.

MOSCOW Colonel Yuri Budanov is a convicted rapist and murderer. After serving half his prison sentence for the rape and murder of an 18 year old Chechen, Elsa Kungayeva, he was released last December.

The Government stated that the measures taken were evidence of its firm position to resolve the situation in the Chechen Republic by peaceful means and in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

By contrast, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, weighed in with a piece on the Tsarnaev brothers that opened with Stalin s banishment of the Chechen people from their homeland in the northern Caucasus to Central Asia and the Siberian wastes. Remnick s lead in was intended not to introduce a summary account of the brutal and violent history of the Chechen people, but to frame a detailed account of the specific history of the Tsarnaev family.

Russia provides conclusive evidence of the impotence of authoritarian violence and disregard for the rule of law. President Vladimir Putin undertook a scorched earth policy in Chechnya, driving many Chechen nationalists straight into the extremists arms.

27. In connection with the events in the Chechen Republic, the Government further stated in the information submitted to the Secretary General that it was continuing to cooperate with the special mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights.

By letter dated 23 September 1996 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had continued to receive information concerning the alleged torture or ill treatment of persons during the course of military operations in the Chechen Republic.

417. By letter dated 23 September 1996 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had continued to receive information concerning cases of persons allegedly tortured or ill treated during the course of military operations in the Chechen Republic.