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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)
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The Situation Facing Chechen Refugees
A number of human rights organizations conducted studies into
the Chechen refugees who fled the Russian slaughter, and their reports
show violations on an enormous scale. Some 250,000 Chechens who
fled the war are now in Ingushetia, and the rest can be found in neigh-
boring regions. Chechens are faced with hunger, thirst and contagious
diseases. Women and children, young people and old who were forced
to migrate, now try to survive in the freezing cold and rain, two or three
families in abandoned train carriages, or in stables in the villages where
they have taken refuge.
For example, the Chechens in the Znamenskoye refugee camp to
the north of Chechnya are unable to send their children to school be-
cause they have no winter clothes. Almost half of those taking shelter
there have fallen sick because of the dreadful conditions and freezing
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cold. Diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis are spreading among
Chechen refugees, who have nothing hot to eat for weeks at a time and
whose bodily constitutions are unable to stand up to the conditions.
The Death Toll Is Rising. 8
Perhaps the most surprising thing is that the majority of the
Western nations, which claim to be in the vanguard of the protection of
human rights, don't lift a finger to help these people. A significant part
of the world's public opinion is not totally aware of the suffering and
sometimes insists on ignoring the cruelty inflicted on the hundreds of
thousands of Chechens who fled the Russian slaughter. The aid from
other countries in the region keeps being cut, and these people who are
fighting hunger, thirst and bitter cold are hard put to find even a crust
of bread. The terrible plight of these refugees needs to be addressed as a
matter of the greatest urgency.

How Can a Solution be Found?

The path to a solution lies in both Russia and the Chechen resis-
tance being called to peace, on the basis of the peace-loving and moder-
ate approach Allah commands. Moscow must abandon regarding the