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Titolo: Cecenia: sette ragazzi giocavano a calcio...

Di fronte a notizie come questa, nessun UMANITARIO protesta?
C'e' bisogno delle direttive (false) della Nato per decidere che e' in atto
un'emergenza umanitaria?
(da risolvere NON con Altre Bombe Umanitarie, ma con iniziative di pace?)
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Cecenia, una granata uccide sette bambini in un campo di calcio
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[ The Guardian ] Un proiettile sparato da un carro armato russo è finito in
un campetto ai margini del villaggio di Novy Sharoy dove un gruppo di
bambini giocava a calcio. Sette sono morti sul colpo e 14 sarebbero rimasti
gravemente feriti. Intanto migliaia di civili, soprattutto donne, si stanno
ammassando a un valico di frontiera con l'Inguscezia, prima aperto, poi
repentinamente chiuso dalle truppe russe. Ieri almeno una donna è morta
soffocata mentre assieme a centinaia di persone si accalcava contro il filo
spinato teso dai militari.
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http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,99199,00.html
Chechen children shelled as they played
Crisis in Chechnya: special report
Ian Traynor in Sleptsovsk
Wednesday November 3, 1999
A shell from a Russian tank exploded in a village playground as a group of
21 Chechen teenage boys were playing football, the Guardian has learned.
Seven boys were killed outright and 14 were severely maimed in one of the
most grievous atrocities yet in the Russian onslaught on the breakaway
republic.
News of the massacre, in the village of Novy Sharoy, came as thousands of
grieving women thronged a key crossing point kept closed by the Russian
authorities yesterday in an attempt to flee the increasingly indiscriminate
bombing of Chechnya.
At least one woman collapsed and died as desperate men and women pressed
against barbed wire barriers trying to pass through a tiny checkpoint.
The Ingush president, Ruslan Aushev, whose impoverished region has taken
most refugees, said four people died overnight at the border. He said
Russia's forces held the refugees "in contempt".
The shelling at Novy Sharoy took place on October 24, 10 miles from the
chaotic border crossing.
Yusup Magomedov lay on a hospital bed yesterday, five days before his 14th
birthday, with bandaged stumps where both his legs used to be. He had seen
seven of his village friends killed and another 13 badly wounded. The
victims, all boys aged from nine to 18, were playing on the street.
"All I remember is one minute we were running around, playing with a ball.
The next I lost consciousness," Yusup recalled yesterday.
"Then I woke up. I looked to the front and to behind me. Everyone was lying
around. There was blood everywhere. I was crying and crying. Seven of my
friends died. It was a picture of horror."
In the bed next to him in the main hospital of this small town on the
Chechen border, Sultan Dzhevbatirov, nine, gripped a Nintendo Gameboy and
brooded silently, his left leg shattered in three places from the blast.
His brother Salman, 13, was one of the seven who died. A man, Lomali
Khalikov, who villagers said was 50 years old, was walking past the playing
boys at the time and was also killed.
The day before the Novy Sharoy massacre the Russians closed the border
crossing at Sleptsovsk. It remained closed yesterday - except for the
passage of four busloads of women and children - sending some 20,000 queuing
refugees on both sides of the border point into a state of hysteria and
panic.
About 180,000 Chechen refugees have crossed into Ingushetia in the past two
months. Until the Russians blocked the crossing on October 23, most of the
refugees had arrived here. Aslan Maskhadov, the president of Chechnya,
accused the Russians of "acting like barbarians."
Yusup's mother, Leyla Magomedova, left her three daughters, Liza, Siyeda,
and Roza, aged eight, 10, and 15, behind when she took her son to hospital.
She has no idea what has become of them because the Russians are keeping the
border closed.
Russian tanks, armoured cars and sneering young soldiers touting
rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns stood in line yesterday
confronting a throng of desperate women who shouted insults and taunted them
with jeers.
"You should be ashamed of yourselves," they yelled. "Look, these are our
Russian liberators. Do we look like terrorists? We just don't understand
this. What are you trying to prove?"
The Russian commanding officer refused to speak. He only shook his head when
foreign journalists requested access to the other side of the crossing where
20,000 people were said to be queuing. Russian television had been given
free access.
The officer would not give his name and refused all access and comment, then
sent a message agreeing to a brief interview in return for $250 (£150). The
offer was declined.
Many of the women who have managed to cross in recent days said they were
forced to pay Russian soldiers thousands of roubles to be allowed through.
Zara Dokayeva, 47, from Grozny, was one of perhaps 100 people to be allowed
through yesterday. She brought her five children with her, but left her
husband and brother behind.
She said two women, one Russian and one Chechen, died in the queue crush.
The crush happened after the Russian authorities announced five days ago
that it was being reopened, sparking a rush for the border as the Russians
intensified their bombing.
Tamara, 35, a personnel worker from Grozny, said the announcement of the
border opening was a deliberate act of cynicism by the Russians.
"The soldiers pretend they're helping us and then this," she said. "They
step up the bombing. Everyone believed it when they said they were opening
the corridor."
She said the refugee train stretched back 10 miles into Chechnya and that
Russian troops had used them as human shields when advancing to Grozny.
Mrs Magomedova knew four of the seven boys killed in Novy Sharoy.
"I'm going mad," she said. "He cries and then I cry. I ask him if it's
because of the pain from his legs. But he says, 'No, it's because of
everything.'"
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pace?)
C'e' la stessa "emergenza umanitaria" che c'era nelle bombe che
esplodevano nelle cittadine russe, uccidendo decine e decine di persone
innocenti.
-Stefano

 innocenti.
La stessa? Hai detto la stessa, DeCesari? Ti assumi la responsabilita' di
quello che stai dicendo davanti a tutta l'umanita'. Ora sapete di che pasta
sono fatti gli "umanitari illuminati". Pasta di mandorle.
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 > innocenti.
Replicare a chi fa 50 morti facendone 500 o 1000 e' una logica da SS.
O, secondo voi, da serbacchioni cattivi grossi come armadi che violentano
bambine.
C'e' qualcosa che non va nei vostri ragionamenti. O semplicemente cambiano a
seconda dell'occasione. Sara' che DeCe' e' un vetero comunista e non l'avevo
mai capito?
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comunista e non l'avevo mai capito?
No. Nei miei ragionamenti non c'e' niente che non va. Non approvo i
metodi russi, ma non mi scaglio contro di loro senza vedere quali sono
le cause che hanno portato a questo.
Preferisco gli occhi bene aperti a quelli semi-chiusi dei pacifichisti.
-Stefano

mandorle.
Mi fai pena...
-Stefano

manifesto 3/11
KOSOVO/OSCE
Walker, "cittadino kosovaro"
- R. ES. - PRISTINA
E' stato nominato cittadino onorario dal governo provvisorio
kosovaro-albanese di Hashim Thaci. Sì, proprio lui William Walker, l'ex
ufficiale americano diventato capo un anno fa della missione dei
"verificatori" dell'Osce - spediti in Kosovo con il compito di monitorare la
"tregua" tra serbi e Uck. Sappiamo come andarono da allora le cose. La
guerra civile sotto gli occhi dell'Osce aumentò di intensità, alimentata
dalle imboscate dell'Uck e non ci volle molto per capire da che parte stava
William Walker e il contingente americano e britannico dell'Osce: contatti
"informali" con i capi dell'Uck, ripetute accuse ai militari serbi e
jugoslavi di violare la tregua. E poi la "strage che risolve una guerra",
quella di Racak, dove 43 albanesi vennero uccisi in circostanze non ancora
chiarite del tutto, ma di cui Walker fin da subito si affrettò ad attribuire
la paternità ai serbi. Dopo Racak la crisi precipitò e assieme al fallimento
di Rambouillet fornì il pretesto per l'intervento diretto della Nato. Ora
Walker torna sul luogo del delitto; ha visitato ieri Racak, si è incontrato
con Rugova e l'amico Thaci e da ieri può vantare la cittadinanza onoraria
kosovara.
Ma il Kosovo è tutt'altro che pacificato. Anche ieri due omicidi, entrambi
molto probabilmente a firma Uck. Un serbo di 65 anni è stato picchiato e
ucciso nei pressi di Gnjilane, nel settore americano. Un albanese di 69 anni
è stato assassinato invece a Djakovica, in una zona però dove i serbi sono
quasi del tutto scomparsi: si può ipotizzare che fosse un vecchio
"collaborazionista" dei serbi, a cui è stata servita a tempo debito la
vendetta.
Proseguono inoltre i tafferugli a Kosovska Mitrovica, la città divisa in due
parti, una serba e l'altra albanese. Un gruppo di serbi ha aggredito due
poliziotti dell'Onu, uno dei quali ha riportato la frattura del setto
nasale. E quanto alla polizia, i primi 173 agenti kosovari formatisi
all'"accademia" di Vucitrn dall'Osce sono entrati ieri in servizio.
All'"accademia" sono iscritti 18.558 aspiranti poliziotti, il 48% dei quali
ex miliziani Uck.
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Dedicato a chi dice che non c'e' emergenza umanitaria
the independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Russia/refugee041199.shtml
Refugee crisis in Chechnya is catastrophic, says Red Cross
By Patrick Cockburn in Moscow and Katherine Butler
4 November 1999
Russia will take over the whole of Chechnya, Marshal Igor Sergeyev, the
Russian Defence Minister, said yesterday, as the Red Cross in Moscow warned
of a "catastrophic" refugee crisis.
The minister brushed aside international pleas for a diplomatic solution and
said President Boris Yeltsin, who has broken off a holiday to return to
Moscow, fully supported the operation to finish the job Russian forces
failed to do in the 1994-1996 Chechen war.
Marshal Sergeyev's pledge to fight to the finish this time expands the
Russian invasion of Chechnya well beyond the limited intervention originally
envisaged and raises the prospect of a bigger humanitarian disaster than
feared.
Six weeks into the Russian offensive, an estimated 180,000 Chechen civilians
have fled to neighbouring Ingushetia and are camped there in squalor, hunger
and cold, with aid only from the Russian government. Around 170,000 more are
inside Chechnya in freezing temperatures with no access to relief.
Thousands trying to flee arestopped by Russians at the border crossing at
Kavkaz. Those who get through say there are many burnt-out cars on the road,
hit by Russian aircraft.
But there is no sign of an international aid response. A UN mission flew to
Ingushetia yesterday but its refugee and aid agencies remain constrained
because the Russians view this as "an internal crisis" Moscow has to
"invite" the UN in.
The big charities including Oxfam and Christian Aid are staying away because
they say the risks of kidnapping and murder are too great. Of 15 British
agencies whose fund-raising activities are co-ordinated by the London-based
Disasters and Emergencies Committee, not one has sent assistance to
Chechnya.
"We are very aware of the horror but we are not prepared to put our staff in
a situation that we could not be sure was secure for them," said Adam Leach
of Oxfam. "Our assessment is that neither Chechnya nor the surrounding areas
are safe. Everyone's hands are tied by the same security problem."
The Red Cross is the only international humanitarian relief organisation
active in the region and it has been forced to scale down programmes inside
Chechnya because staff in the capital Grozny are under siege.
"There are very real concerns for health" said Lyndall Sachs of the UNHCR.
"People do not have warm clothing or water. Children have no shoes. Diseases
are breaking out. There are lice and many people have scabies. These
conditions make Kosovo look mild."
The war is being driven by the political power play in Moscow. Russian
success or failure in conquering Chechnya will determine the future of
Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who launched the war, and the outcome of
the struggle in Moscow to succeed President Yeltsin in the election next
year.
Artillery and aircraft continued to pound Chechnya yesterday as Russian
forces advanced through the heavily populated towns and villages around
Grozny. President Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen leader, said yesterday 3,600
Chechens had died in the war.
Marshal Sergeyev said his soldiers have sealed off Gudermes, the second
Chechen city. Russia is relying on massive use of firepower to keep down its
casualties. The marshal said "no storming of Grozny will take place" and he
was using "artillery and the air force to destroy the [Chechen] gangs and
their camps."
President Maskhadov has 20,000 to 30,000 experienced guerrillas with light
weapons. Russia has an estimated 100,000 troops.
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quali ex miliziani Uck.
Di cui il Manifesto conosce nomi e ha le tessere dell'UCK :) ;)
-Stefano