Condolences and Statement of Akhmed Zakayev on Terror Act in Boston
| WRITTEN BY ADMINISTRATOR |
| FRIDAY, 19 APRIL 2013 22:01 |
| The terrorist attacks, which took place during the Boston marathon, left three people, including a child, dead and scores of victims seriously injured and wounded. On behalf of the Chechen people, the CHRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) Government–in-Exile and on my own behalf I would like to express my sincere condolences to the families of those, who were killed, and wish the speediest recovery to the injured.
To our greatest regret, judging by the news coming from Boston, the suspects of this crime are ethnic Chechens, who had been resident in the USA. However, the Chechen people have never had and, indeed, have no reasons to have any feelings of hostility towards the United States of America and its citizens. The only people, who can gain from these attacks, are the top echelon of the Russian regime and their puppets in Chechnya, who pursue Moscow policy there while trampling upon the legitimate interests of the Chechen people. We cannot rule out that some sources (groups?), who position themselves as supporters of the independence of the Caucasus, but have already exposed themselves as employees of the Russian special services, will take responsibility for the criminal action in Boston on themselves. This has happened before. We also can’t rule out the Kremlin’s official statements, where yet another attempt will be made to depict the Chechen people’s fight for its national independence as “international terrorism”. Trying to pre-empt these provocative statements, we firmly declare that we do not accept terrorism as a method of fighting and a way of achieving political aims. We categorically condemn all terrorist attacks, no matter who initiated them. At the same time we denounce all the attempts based on the principle of collective responsibility to lay the blame for the crimes of individual Chechens upon the whole Chechen people. Akhmed Zakaev 19.04.2013 |
