12 August 2009, 22:10
Ekaterinburg "Memorial" to commemorate all human rights defenders who perished in Chechnya
The statement of the Ekaterinburg city NGO named the "Ekaterinburg "Memorial" Society" passed in the context of the murder of Zarema Sadulayeva, leader of the NGO "Let's Save the Generation", and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov says that this other cynical murder of human rights activists in Chechnya indicates a complete revelry of violence and inability of the administration of the republic to control the situation in the region.
The well-known humanitarian organization "Let's Save the Generation", headed by Zarema Sadulayeva, was in different years a partner of the Ekaterinburg "Memorial" Society in peace-making actions: "Peace Flight", "We Build PEACE with Our Hands" and "Friendship in Envelope".
"We are keeping till now the paintings of Chechen children-victims of the war, posters for children published by our colleagues, warnings about mines and trip wire bombs and notebooks with covers 'decorated' by useful advice to children in the wartime, presented to us. On sheets of these notebooks, Ural schoolchildren wrote letters to their Chechen peers about their craving for peace and friendship," says the statement.
The Ekaterinburg human rights activists call the murder of their colleagues in Chechnya cynical and emphasize that it indicate if not a regular and purposeful liquidation of independent public figures in the republic, but a complete failure of local and federal authorities to ensure enforcement of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the region.
On August 13, the Ekaterinburg "Memorial" Society, where the office has a stand in memory of all the perished human rights defenders, will hold a memory action of "all the journalists and human rights activists who died in Chechnya and for Chechnya."
