 Appeal to Said-Emin Ibragimov
SIA CHECHENPRESS, 26 September 2007
Dear Said-Emin,
It is with unceasing attention and fear for your life that we observe the many-days-long hunger strike which you have declared before the PACE Headquarters in Strasbourg. For all these days, we have seen the opposition between courage and indifference, between firm civic stance and unprincipled duplicity of the faceless and soulless bureaucracy. Nobody has any doubts now that you have achieved an overwhelming moral victory against those who cynically neglect all the moral values of this world and the high ideals of humanism and natural human rights.
The Chechen nation, excluded by the Establishment from the rules of civilized relations, has suffered all thinkable forms of genocide and national humiliation for many years. We fully support your rightful demands regarding the Chechen question. We have no doubts left now that the governments and parliaments of the West have practically become accomplices to the Russian leaders in all their crimes against your countrymen. Your unprecedented action has opened the eyes of all those who has had any illusion that the West was prepared to defend the ideals of democracy and human rights. You have demonstrated that the European governments are quite prepared to sacrifice all the noble principles of Western civilization to the tactical benefits and economic profits from collaboration with Putin’s fascist regime.
Indeed, these over-pragmatic bureaucrats are prepared to collaborate with any devil in the name of their short-term benefits. However, not all the people are such. Believe us, dear Said-Emin, you have a lot of allies in this world. All of us sincerely sympathise with the brave Chechen nation which, in this extremely difficult fight with Russian imperial monster, defends its freedom, independence and national dignity.
Therefore, we implore you to stop your hunger-strike rather than see it to its tragic end. Together we shall find other forms to continue the struggle for the Chechen people’s human and national rights.
Vladimir Bukovskiy, dissident, writer, political activist
Larisa Volodimerova, writer, human right activist
Ivar Amundsen, the ChRI Honorary Consul in Norway,
Ekkekhard Maas, the ChRI Honorary Consul in Germany,
David Kudikov, writer, human right activist
Medet Onlu, the ChRI Honorary Consul in Turkey,
The Committee for the Salvation of Said-Emin Ibragimov.
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