[spectre] February 23 - Deportation Day

[geert]

(via andreas riedlmayer, justwatch list)

Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 02:24:47 +0100
From: Julie Wornan <juliewornan@iname.com>

February 23 - Deportation Day

The 58th anniversary of Stalin-era deportations of 650,000 Chechens
and Ingushes to Soviet Central Asia and Siberia in 1944. Rallies and
demonstrations marking the anniversary will take place in the following
places:

Belgium: The Transnational Radical Party holds a protest rally at 11
a.m. in 31-33 Boulevard du Régent, Brussels, in front of the Embassy of
the Russian Federation to the EU.
More information is available at nkhramov@yahoo.com.

Denmark: The Danish Support Committee organises an anti-war protest
rally in front of the Russian embassy in Copenhagen. More information in
Danish is available here.

Finland: Chechnya Association holds a demonstration at 2:00 pm in front
of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Helsinki, Tehtaankatu 1.

France: The Chechnya Committee of Paris holds a commemorative rally near
the Centre Beaubourg (museum) in Paris. A tent will be set up in which
we will welcome the public to time-space for information, music, food
prepared by Chechen refugees, speeches, photos, music (the Chechen
singer Ali Ibraguimov) and film showings. From 11 a.m till 6 p.m.

Italy: The Transnational Radical Party holds a protest rally at 11:00
a.m. in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Via Gaeta, 5,
Rome.

Netherlands: Action of "memory of victims of deportation of Chechen
people in February 23, 1944" will take place in Hague, the Netherlands
at 2:00 p.m. Source: islam999999999@hotmail.com.

Poland: The Chechen Information Centre and the Committee Poland-Belarus
hold a rally at 12:00 a.m. (noon) in front of the Russian Consulate in
Krakow, Westerplatte 11. Besides marking the anniversary of mass
deportations of Chechens, this is a protest against the continuing
agression on Chechnya and also against Russian support to the
Lukashenko's regime in Belarus.
Prayers will be held in Polish mosques in Gdansk and Warsaw. The main
intention of the prayers will be freedom for Chechnya and Belarus.

Russia: The Radical Antimilitarist Association (ARA) and the
Transnational Radical Party hold a rally in the Smolenskaya-Sennaya
Square in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow at 2 p.m.

Sweden: The Swedish Committee for Chechnya organizes a demonstration at
Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm at 11 a.m. Speakers of all parliamentary
parties and the Swedish branch of Amnesty International are expected to
present their speeches.

USA: The Boston Committee Against Ethnic Cleansing holds a demonstration
"to commemorate the genocide of 1944-1956 and protest the current war in
Chechnya" in Dartmouth Street Plaza, Boston between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.

According to unconfirmed reports, similar demonstrations are to be held
in Warsaw, Vilnius, Minsk, Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia), Tbilisi,
Washington, D.C. and other towns.

Compiled by Prague Watchdog (see: http://www.watchdog.cz/calendar).