Chechens are being killed. Every day and every hour.

An appeal of a systematically exterminated people
of the Chechen Republic to the intellectuals,
politicians, and wide public of the European countries

Save Our Souls!

Chechens are being killed. Every day and every hour.
For the fourth year in a row.

They kill systematically, deliberately. They are not ashamed of anyone…
They are not stopped by anything…

They kill women. They kill children.
But particularly men.

They kill whole families and individuals. They cut their noses, ears, and heads.
They take off their scalps, they castrate them.

They kill in the "cleansings" of villages and in their secret prisons.
At the checkpoints and in the refugee camps.

They kill of machineguns, they use aviation.
They use tactic rockets and drugs..

They kill with their lies.

The Chechens will disappear from the ethnic map of the world in several years!
Save us!

We have nobody to ask help from, no one wants to hear of us.
Politicians are fighting for power, businessmen - for juicy deals. The Chechen oil - its major treasure - turned out its it's major trouble.

While Chechens are being killed, trains of oil are taken out of Chechnya.
We get blood and fresh tombs, Putin and his entourage-money and power.

Europe - don't be silent!
Silence means support.
We do not believe you are together with the always drunk Russian general-maniacs.
Can the fate of the Chechen people be less important to you than the animal rights!

We are waiting for help!
Not with guns - this is not needed.
Neither do we need humanitarian aid: what is it for, if the people who eat it are anyway killed?..
And although Russia understands only power- we do not ask to declare a war.

Help us with your word!
Prove that human life and the rights of human beings, still matter something to you.
And if you value your honor, do not let your leaders shake hands, which are washed in the Chechen blood…

This appeal was signed by more than 60,000 people, which amounts to 10 % of the current population of Chechnya.

Sheets with 20,000 signatures were delivered to Mr. Adam Sweed, the representative of the OSCE in Europe, on June, 6 2001 at a press-conference in Moscow, organized by the Sakharov Foundation for journalists, leaders of Human Rights Organizations and Humanitarian Missions of Russia and Western countries.

On November, 28 2001 in Strasbourg at the hearings of the Council of Europe sheets with 40,000 more signatures were presented by Ruslan Badalov, the president of the Chechen National Olympic Committee, and the head of the Chechen National Salvation Committee organized by refugees. Ruslan Badalov handed the signatures to the General Secretary of the Parliament of the Council of Europe in the presence of co-chairs of the working group of "State Duma-PACE" Lord Dzhadd and D. Rogozin. There was no response to this appeal. Nobody wanted to hear the Chechens alive. May be someone will hear the dead ones…

We hereby list the names of those who were killed by the Russian military and secret services in the course of the last 1,5 years in several dozens of the 427 towns and villages of Chechnya. This was the period when no active military operation was undertaken in Chechnya.

These murdered people were not terrorists or guerilla fighters, at least no one accused them of being such.

Not a single one of them died opposing the Russian soldiers.
The only guilt that they had was their belonging to the Chechen people.
In the present-day Russia this is considered a crime…