"The situation in the Chechen Republic is our pain and our shame," said Vladimir Putin in his statement on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic. All the facts of human rights violations and abuses committed in the course of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasian region of the Russian Federation, no matter whom they were committed by, are being thoroughly investigated and in case the crime is confirmed those guilty will be punished with the utmost rigor of the law.


The President notes in the statement, which RIA Novosti has received from the Presidential press-service, that "the matter concerns protection of the life, honour and dignity of Russian citizens. The Dudayev-Maskhadov regime, which has usurped power in that region of the Russian Federation has created on the territory of Chechnya a criminal terroristic enclave in which arbitrariness, lawlessness, violations of elementary human rights reign supreme, stresses the president in his statement.


"Having desecrated the fundamental principles of Islam, hiding themselves behind the norms of the Sharia, the bandits have launched a real war against the entire population of Chechnya, says Vladimir Putin.


National and regional discrimination, hostage-taking, slavery and slave-trade, murders, rapes, and public executions have become common place in the republic. The result is that between 1992 and until now about 220,000 Russians and 650,000 Chechens were compelled to leave the republic, points out the Acting President of Russia in his statement.

BERNSTEIN YOU COWARD. You wanted to know where I am.I told you, now the ball is in your court.Come and see me,I am waiting for you .Like I said bring 3 or 4 friends and your hospital card.I am waiting for you COWARD.