Kavkaz News: Radio Liberty Correspondent Kidnapped
Kavkaz news for 36th-30th January: Russian's accused of kidnapping Radio Liberty correspondent - West Acciused of East Timor double standard - General Malofeyev dies in captivity in Grozny - and much more...
Transcript from ..http://www.chechnya.xnet.is/ the official news agency of the Chechen rebels....
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January 30, 2000
No fresh news from Kavkaz-Tsentr
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January 29, 2000
Kavkaz-Tsentr reports:
Bitter fighting continues in Dzhokhar. Now the
most ferocious ones take place around the Akhtayev stadium
(former Ordzhonikidze stadium): A large armoured column
yesterday moved towards it from the direction of Karpinsky
Kurgan. The Mujahideen attacked it with mortars and RPGs.
Having lost 4 armoured vehicles and 3 'Urals' the Russians
retreated.
There was also combat action near the
Republican hospital, the 13th school, the tinning factory,
in the 6th micro-district, and in Chernorechye. The
Mujahideen attacked in Tashkala for the second time in three
days.
According to General Khamzat Gelayev the Russians
in Dzhokhar are loosing 100-300 every day. During the last
24 hours about 200 aggressors have been killed, 9 armoured
vehicles have been destroyed.
In this same period 7
Mujahideen died, 11 have been wounded.
In the occupied
territories the Russians are abducting and shooting people.
In the Naursky district about 400 people have been carried
off - in the districts of Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan
about 500, in Shali 200, and in Gudermes 170. In the Argun
and Sunzha districts about 700 people have been arrested and
brought to unknown places.
According to eye-witnesses
hundreds of peoples have been executed and buried in
clandestine operations in the steppes of Shelkovsky
district, in Naursky district and in the Stavropol
region.
Despite all Russian attacks, the Chechen
Mujahideen are in control of the gates to Argun Valley and
Vedeno Valley.
A group of Russian tanks accompanied by
100 Spetsnaz troops tried to assault a tactical height by
outflanking the Chechen positions. The Mujahideen attacked
and in three hours of combat managed to repulse the enemy
killing 50 men. One T-80 was knocked out.
Near
Serzhen-Yurt the fight is at a deadlock. The Russians try to
bombard the Chechen positions. Yesterday Russian fighter
planes bombed Serzhen-Yurt for 5 hours. 2 Chechen fighters
were killed in action.
The Chechen vice-president Vakha
Arsanov comments on the position of the parliamentary
assembly of the Council of Europe regarding Chechnya. He
says that the Chechen leadership never pinned it's hope on
international organizations like the UNO, the OSCE, the
Council of Europe, etc.
He accuses the west of applying
different standards to Muslim and to non-Muslim countries.
In East Timor the whole christian world backed the desire
for independence from Muslim Indonesia – but with respect to
Muslim Chechnya it tolerates not only Russia's colonial
policy but also the most horrible atrocities and
war-crimes.
Where is Babitsky? The Russians ministry of defence claims not to know the fate of the correspondent of Radio Liberty. But according to sources of Kavkaz-Tsentr the native Russian Babitsky has been arrested by Russian forces and is kept in captivity by them in occupied Urus-Martan. He had left Dzhokhar on January 15th or 16th together with some Mujahideen who then lost the contact to him. According to Kavkaz-Tsentr the Russian ministry of the interior a few hours ago confirmed the apprehension of Babitsky.
The situation in the refugee camps in Ingushetia is becoming worse and worse. Especially children are suffering infectious diseases. The Russians are denying medical aid. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion about 400 children died in the refugee camps.
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January 27, 2000
Kavkaz-Tsentr reports:
The intensity of the
fights in Dzhokhar doesn't decrease – combat activities
continue at all parts of the front. Large Russian units
continue their efforts to move into the town and to fortify
themselves in new positions.
The Mujahideen apply the
proved tactics of urban warfare.
According to the Chechen
capital's Defence Staff several Russian armoured columns and
500 Spetsnaz soldiers moved toward the area of the Southern
bus station. The Mujahideen attacked and knocked out 5
armoured vehicles. In two hours of fighting significant
parts of the Russians have been wiped out. Remnants of the
Russian units sought shelter in former a department store
but were forced out during the night.
The last days the
Russians mainly use units of 50-100 men whose task it is to
conquer single blocks.
One of these units comprising
about 100 men entered the settlement Maas (former Kalinin)
after having crossed Sunzha River wading. The Mujahideen
attacked and annihilated the unit. Only 20 men are said to
have escaped alive.
General Aslambek Ismailov eulogized
the high fighting morale and ability of co-ordination of the
defenders of the town.
The battle in the Argun Valley
continues. The Mujahideen are resisting there an amount of
about 40,000 Russian troops with all their materiel
attacking the Chechen positions continuously. The most
bitter fights take place near Duba-Yurt.
The Russians
several times tried to move from Alkhazurova towards the
village Surat but have been repulsed. The Russian airforce
and artillery attacks the Chechen positions. Thousands of
civilians are trying to escape the fighting zone but are
being hindered to do so, because the Russians are raking
with fire the roads in the area.
There is information from Grozny that General Malofeyev finally died from the wounds he received during a Russian bombardment of his place of captivity. The Kremlin's story of the burial of Malofeyev in Russia remains mysterious. The Chechen command insists on its version that Malofeyev the whole time has been in Chechen captivity.
In the Sharoy District static warfare
continues since one and a half month. Since then the
Russians according to the Chechen command lost about 500 men
there, 40 trucks and armoured vehicles have been
destroyed.
During the last 24 hours there were bitter
fights near the alpine village Day. The Chechens attacked
the entrenched Russians several times. The Chechens are in
control of the tactical heights there.
The mothers of the
boys in the Russian special concentration camp in Naursky
District are denied to visit their children. This is being
justified with a corresponding direct order from
Moscow.
One woman managed to save her 12 years old boy
from being captured by paying 5,000 Rubles. Seven children
are said to have been shot in the concentration camp;
torture is a common practice there.
The villages in the mountainous South of Chechnya have been bombed extraordinarily during the last 24 hours. The Russian put into action Scud rockets (SS 21C), too. More than 230 civilians died, most of them women and children.
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January 26, 2000 (en français)
Kavkaz-Tsentr reports:
The battle for Dzhokhar
is going on. About 100,000 Russian soldiers have been
concentrated around the Chechen capital. The Russians
continue their feverish efforts to assault the Chechen
positions in the suburbs of the town – the Russian command
doesn't keep its promise to spare the life of their
conscripts.
Yesterday the Russians made chaotic attempts
for break-throughs into the centres of Chernorechye and
Michurina. In both places they have been repulsed and lost
about 160 men.
In Staraya Sunsha, in the 3rd
Micro-District and near the tinning factory the combat
actions were less intensive than during the last days. The
Chechen Mujahideen attacked the Russians there and in
Staraya Sunsha forced them to flee to their former
positions.
During the last day the Russians suffered more
than 270 casualties in Dzhokhar. 12 armoured vehicles have
been destroyed, 2 trucks with equipment were captured.
On
the Chechen side 7 Mujahideen died, 12 fighters were
wounded.
The Chechen vice-president Isa Astamirov has been killed in the fights for Dzhokhar. Astamirov was commanding a unit of the south-western front.
The Russian general Malofeyev, captured by the Chechens, is still alive. The medical service of the Chechen forces is doing its best to save his life, while the Kremlin's propaganda units arrange the burial of a Pseudo-Malofeyev.
The Chechen command
presents an official list of the casualties of the Russian
and of the Chechen forces. According to this list since the
very beginning of the Russian invasion about 11,000 Russian
soldiers have been killed. About 500 tanks and armoured
personnel carriers have been knocked out. 12 airplains were
shot down, 40 helicopters have been shot down or
damaged.
During this periood te Chechen army lost more
than 400 Mujahideen, 420 fighters were wounded.
In
compliance with the Chechen command the ammount of dead
civilians exceeds 10,000. About 320 villages and towns of
Chechnya have been totally or partially destroyed.
In the
occupied territories the mass-apprehensions of civilians
continue. According to a great number of eye-witnesses the
Russians arrest Chechen men an bring them to unknown places.
Hundreds of Chechens have been shot. In the Naursky and
Shelkovsky District in the West of Chechnya concentration
camps have been set up – among them the special boys' camp
reported about yesterday. According to some informations
there are other camps in the Stavropol Region and in North
Ossetia.
In the Naursky and Urus-Martan Districts more
than 70% of the population's houses have been plundered by
Russian marauders. A great part of the booty has been
brought to Mozdok and Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia).
A Chechen special unit has attacked Russian units beyond the Dagestani frontier. The Chechens attacked a Russian camp in Botlikh District, Dagestan. 15 Russian marine infantrymen have been killed, 2 BTRs have been destroyed. The Chechen retreated without having suffered casualties.
Shirazudin
Ramazanov, the prime minister of the Islamic Leadership of
Dagestan, gives notice of the activities of Dagestani
volunteers in Chechnya. Only this year 645 Mujahideen from
Dagestan enrolled in the Chechen army or in the
'Peacekeeping Army of the Islamic Congress of Chechnya and
Dagestan'. All in all 1,700 Dagestanis are fighting in
Chechnya, 350 men are just being trained.
Ramazanov says
that the Islamic Leadership of Dagestan is well aware of the
activities of the criminal clans in the State Soviet
Dagestan's capital Makhachkala. He says that a second phase
of 'Operation Hamzat Bek' to liberate Dagestan is being
prepared.
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