[Bilimsel Haber] EVENT- Chechnya and North Caucasus-Related Events in US and Belgium, February 2006

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Almut Rochowanski <almut@chechnyaadvocacy.org


EVENT- Chechnya and North Caucasus-Related Events in US and Belgium, 
Feb. 2006

Please join us for presentations and discussions on the 1944 deportations
and the current situation in Chechnya at events in New York, D.C., Boston,
Berkeley, and Brussels

On February 23, 1944, then entire population of the then Checheno-Ingush
republic, almost half a million people, were ordered out of their homes 
and put
on a grueling and in many cases lethal journey in cattle cars to Central 
Asia by
Stalin's secret police, the NKVD. Many were killed on the spot for being 
too old
or weak to move and tens of thousands are documented not to have 
survived the
weeks on the trains or the first months in exile. In addition to 
Chechens and
Ingush, 11 other ethnic minorities, among them Crimean Tatars, Volga 
Germans and
Koreans were deported from their homelands before or during World War II to
prevent the emergence of fifth columns or to 'punish traitor nations' 
for their
alleged collaboration with the enemy. Not until 1956, after Stalin's 
death, were
the deported peoples allowed to go home.

February 23 holds special significance for Chechens and Ingush. It is 
also an
annual opportunity for CAN and its partners to draw attention to the 
persistent
violence and human rights violations in the North Caucasus area.


New York, February 23, 2006:

'A survivors' account of the 1944 deportations of the Chechen and Ingush 
peoples
- Diana Tsutieva reads from her grandmother Nura Chagaeva's memoirs 
about the
deportations, life in exile and the return home'

Harriman Institute Chechnya Speaker Series, Harriman Institute/Columbia
University

For details, go to http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html

Berkeley, CA, February 24, 2006:


'Chechnya's Past and Present: Historic legacies and contemporary
developments in one of the world's most troubled regions'

Speakers: Professor Michaela Pohl (Vassar College) and Musa Khasanov (Public
Interest Law Initiative fellow and Grozny-based human rights lawyer)

Vista Community College (Sponsored by Vista's Global Studies Club and the
American Friends Service Committee)

For details, go to http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html


Washington D.C., February 23, 2006:

Panel discussion about the 1944 deportations and the current spread of 
violence
throughout the North Caucasus

Rayburn House Office Building Room

Speakers: Svante Cornell (Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus
Institute, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS), Kelly McEvers (Writer and
contributor to National Public Radio and a founding editor of
www.SixBillion.org), Satsita Muradova (former lawyer with the Russian human
rights organization Memorial)

For details, go to http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html


Boston, February 25-26, 2006:

'Comparative Occupations: Chechnya, Iraq, Palestine: Governing Zones of
Emergency' Workshop

Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

For details, go to http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html


Brussels, Belgium, February 22-23:

Documentary films and conference

  - February 22: Voices of Dissent, film by Carlo Nero and Vanessa Redgrave
    at the City Library in Leuven (Belgian premiere)
  - February 23: Three Comrades, a film by Masha Novikova at the Peace House
    in Ghent (Belgian premiere)
  - February 23: conference about the situation of Chechen refugees in 
Europe
    at the Free University of Brussels (ULB)

For details, go to http://www.chechnyaadvocacy.org/events.html




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