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To: LindyBill who wrote (91905)	4/10/2003 3:02:33 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I feel so bad about that. Next I suppose you are going to tell me you feel bad for the Kremlin being bugged by all these pesky EU complaints.. "The European Union should focus on ending the war in Iraq. Hundreds of civilians die there, and cities and villages are being destroyed," Kadyrov said, according to the Interfax news agency. You must be crying a river of tears -g- russiajournal.com =========================================================== Kremlin lashes out at EU over Chechnya April 09, 2003 Posted: 15:30 Moscow time (11:30 GMT) MOSCOW - A top Kremlin aide accused the European Union of "hysteria" on Wednesday after the EU and seven other nations submitted a resolution to the U.N. Human Rights Commission criticizing the human rights situation in Chechnya. The 15-nation EU and seven other European countries submitted a draft resolution Tuesday that accuses Russian forces of forced disappearances, summary executions and torture, and calls on Moscow to investigate. The draft resolution came less than a week after the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights body, voted for a proposal to set up an international war crimes tribunal for Chechnya. Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an aide to President Vladimir Putin and Russia's top spokesman on Chechnya, said the two proposals were a response to last month's referendum in Chechnya, in which voters overwhelmingly approved a constitution firmly binding the region to Russia. The Kremlin says the vote was the beginning of a peace process, but human rights advocates question its fairness and say it cannot replace negotiations with rebel President Aslan Maskhadov - something Western governments have long urged but Moscow has rejected. "When the referendum proved the rightness of Moscow and Chechen society, showing that there can be other political solutions of the Chechen problem, this caused hysteria among those who were counting on different methods of involvement in Russia's affairs, in order to constantly keep Russia on a hook," Yastrzhembsky said in remarks shown on TVS television. Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechnya's Moscow-appointed administration chief, said the authors of the EU resolution had drawn hasty conclusions based on one-day trips to the region. "The European Union should focus on ending the war in Iraq. Hundreds of civilians die there, and cities and villages are being destroyed," Kadyrov said, according to the Interfax news agency. The March 23 referendum in Chechnya has failed to curtail violence in the region, where Russian troops continue to suffer daily casualties. Last week, a passenger bus was blown up by a remote-controlled mine, killing eight. Over the past 24 hours, six Russian troops were killed and five wounded in rebel attacks, an official in the Moscow-backed administration said on condition of anonymity. A pro-Moscow policeman and his brother were gunned down by masked assailants in the capital Grozny, the official said. Another police officer was killed and one wounded in a clash with rebels in the Shaami-Yurt village. Two rebels were also killed in the clash, the official said. Russian forces fought a disastrous 1994-96 war with Chechen separatists, ultimately leaving the region de facto independent. They returned three years later after rebel raids on a neighboring Russian region and after apartment-house bombings in Russian cities that killed more than 300.