{"id":13977,"date":"2018-01-24T19:13:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org?p=13977"},"modified":"2018-01-24T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:30:13","slug":"more-links-in-the-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/more-links-in-the-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"More Links in the Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calling the arrest of Oyub Titiev<\/a>, a staff member at the \u201cMemorial\u201d office in Grozny, the burning of the \u201cMemorial\u201d office<\/a> in Nazran, an attempt to destroy<\/a> one of the organizations automobiles, and threats of reprisal against \u201cMemorial\u201d members more links in the chain, Oleg Orlov, director of the North Caucasus program at the Human Rights Center \u201cMemorial\u201d, stated<\/a> that \u201c\u2019Memorial\u2019 continues to face intimidation and scare tactics, that is, terror\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is impossible not to agree with these conclusions about the obvious campaign to persecute \u201cMemorial,\u201d which has been accompanied by repressions, attacks, intimidation, slander, and fabricated charges.<\/p>\n

This persecution, which is of a terrifying and deathly dangerous nature in the region of the North Caucasus, also extends way beyond the boundaries of so-called \u201chot spots.\u201d The entire Memorial movement is in danger. This movement arose in the late 1980s to memorialize the victims of Soviet terror and attain the protection of human rights so that nothing like Stalin\u2019s nightmare could ever happen again. In 2017, the government finally erected a monument in Moscow dedicated to the tragedy of the Great Purge to mark the sad anniversary of 1937. January 2018 is also an \u201canniversary\u201d year\u2014after all, 1938, when defendants were tortured to the fullest extent and the wholesale slaughter of people accused of political \u201ccrimes\u201d reached its height, was perhaps even more terrifying than the previous year. However, this symbolic date does not coincide with ceremonies commemorating the victims of the past, but with a new round of repressions, with what Orlov called \u201cterror against \u2018Memorial.\u2019\u201d Is the upshot of erecting a monument the destruction of \u201cMemorial\u201d? Another rejection of the principles of law, the presumption of innocence, and the ability to critically evaluate the past and the present? These repressions have touched people like Oyub Titiev and his colleagues in the \u201cMemorial\u201d offices in Grozny, Nazran, and Dagestan, who have documented extrajudicial executions and crimes against residents of Chechnya and other republics of the North Caucasus, and people like Yuri Dmitriev<\/a>, who have collected data about people executed in the \u201canniversary\u201d past.<\/p>\n

It is abundantly clear that the charges against Dmitriev and Titiev of crimes that they did not commit and could not have committed are a gross fabrication of facts. None of the vile suspicions of Dmitriev<\/a> were confirmed in court, and, if Titiev is judged by judges and not executioners, his innocence will be proven (especially since it is already known that his detention<\/a> involved the grossest violations of the law that are only possible when the task is to fabricate evidence showing the guilt of an innocent person.<\/p>\n

It is also clear that this persecution of \u201cMemorial\u201d members is connected with their professional activity. This is not even concealed by the government, which allows its representative to threaten human rights defenders with statements that \u201cin our krai (republic), they won\u2019t get anywhere with their work\u201d and that \u201cwe will break the backs of our enemies\u2026we won\u2019t allow things here that we could allow\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the country\u2019s main television stations are broadcasting is no less cynical than what the leader of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation pronounced in the Chechen language: they defame \u201cMemorial\u201d members and human rights defenders in long segments, they are not ashamed to accuse honest historians of repressions of having an \u201cunpatriotic\u201d approach, they pepper people who lived during the years of Stalin\u2019s repressions with senseless questions about why their activities are of interest to citizens of Estonia or Germany (as if they do not know anything about the wholesale slaughter of Estonians and Germans in Soviet camps), and they violate all ethical and legal norms of the inviolability of personal life.<\/p>\n

These really are links in one chain\u2014the old chain of lies, violence, arrests, torture, and degradation. This chain was and remains in the hands of the government, and the only institution that can stand up against it is society. Society in the Russian Federation must decide what it needs more\u2014this kind of chain or \u201cMemorial,\u201d a lie or an honest memory of the past, violence or human rights.<\/p>\n

Stefania Kulayeva<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Calling the arrest of Oyub Titiev, a staff member at the \u201cMemorial\u201d office in Grozny, the burning of the \u201cMemorial\u201d office in Nazran, an attempt to destroy one of the organizations automobiles, and threats of reprisal against \u201cMemorial\u201d members more links in the chain, Oleg Orlov, director of the North Caucasus program at the Human Rights Center \u201cMemorial\u201d, stated that \u201c\u2019Memorial\u2019 continues to face intimidation and scare tactics, that is, terror\u201d. It is impossible not to agree with these conclusions about the obvious campaign to persecute \u201cMemorial,\u201d which has been accompanied by repressions, attacks, intimidation, slander, and fabricated charges. This…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Breaking news<\/a>, News<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"admin3","url":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/author\/admin3\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"strategy_cases","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/strategy_cases?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"campaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaign?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"filter-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-content?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=13977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}