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"Mr President, according to Russian human rights groups, these so-called elections took place only on paper. Participation by the local population was very low – almost non-existent. Instead, and scandalously, thousands of Russian army soldiers took part in the vote, together with an armed faction of the Kremlin-appointed leader Kadyrov. These elections must therefore be seen as a masquerade to cover up the continuing violence and oppression.
In 2000, during the attack by Russian forces on Grozny, human rights defender Lida Yusupova sat in the cellar of a half-ruined house. The people there felt defenceless and abandoned. Somehow they had information that at the same time in Strasbourg the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was discussing the situation in Russia. Listening to a radio set the elderly inhabitants asked Mrs Yusupova: ‘Are they going to help us? Strasbourg is our only hope.’ Six years later this question has still not been answered.
Yesterday’s meeting of the representatives of the Russian civil rights organisations confirmed the concerns we have been expressing for a long time. The last major expression of this concern was the Malmström report. Today’s resolution sadly states that both the Council and the Commission have not adequately addressed these concerns and human rights violations. One could even say that they have failed to do so. Therefore, it is now high time to take a principled and united stand on these issues, because massive human rights violations in Chechnya, which remain unpunished, are spreading throughout the Russian federation like a virus.
Lastly, today’s resolution ..."@en1
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