Son alınan bilgilere göre, Çeçenistan’ın başkenti Groznıy’da Rus Özgürlük Hareketinden Sayın Natalya Estemirova, Putin’in KGB’si tarafından öldürülmüştür. Rusya’yı teşkil eden milletlerle birlikte Rus milletinin de özgürlüğü için kahramanca mücadele veren efsanevi Natalya Hanımı saygı ve takdirle anıyoruz ve ortak düşmanımız Rus KGB-FSB yöneticilerinin bu yasadışı cinayetini lanetliyoruz.
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Natalia Estemirova
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| Natalia Estemirova | |
| Born | 28 February, 1958 Saratov oblast, Soviet Union |
|---|---|
| Died | 15 July 2009 Gazi-Yurt, Ingushetia, Russia |
| Alma mater | Grozny University |
| Occupation | Human rights activist, journalist, teacher |
Natalia Khusainovna Estemirova (Russian: Наталья Хусаиновна Эстемирова) (28 February, 1958 – 15 July 2009) was an award-winning Russian human rights activist and board member of the Russian human rights organisation Memorial. Estemirova was abducted by unknown persons on 15 July 2009 around 8:30 a.m. from her home in Grozny, Chechnya, as she was working on “extremely sensitive” cases of human rights abuses in Chechnya.[1] Two witnesses reported they saw Estemirova being pushed into a car shouting that she was being abducted. Her remains were found with bullet wounds in the head and chest area at 4:30 p.m. in woodland 100 metres (330 ft) away from the federal road “Kavkaz” near the village of Gazi-Yurt, Ingushetia.[2]Her age at death has been reported variously as 48 or 50.
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[edit] Biography
Born in the south Russian province of Saratov to Russian and Chechen parents, Estemirova graduated in history from Grozny University and taught History in a local high school until 1998.[3]. In 1991 she worked as a correspondent for the local newspapers The Voice and The Worker of Grozny[4] While working on TV in Grozny, she filmed 13 short documentaries about victims of the Russian punitive practices.[5] She participated in the Organization of Filtration Camps Inmates as a press-secretary. Widow of a Chechen policeman, she gathered evidence on human rights violations since the beginning of the second Chechen war in 1999, leaving her daughter in Yekaterinburg with relatives. In 2000 she became a representative for the Memorial Human Rights Centre in her native Grozny.[6] She visited many hospitals in Chechnya and Ingushetia, filming child victims of the war on hundreds of photographs.
Estemirova received the Right Livelihood Award at a ceremony in the Swedish parliament building in 2004. Along with Sergei Kovalyov, chairman of Memorial, she was awarded the Robert Schuman Medal by the Group of the European People’s Party in 2005.[7][3] In October 2007 she was awarded the Anna Politkovskaya Award by Reach All Women in War (RAW), a human rights organization supporting women human rights defenders in war and conflict.[8][9] Estemirova worked with investigating journalist Anna Politkovskaya and human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, both of whom were also murdered, in 2006 and 2009, respectively.[10][11]
[edit] Assassination
Estemirova was abducted on 15 July 2009 from her home in Grozny, Chechnya. According to Tanya Lokshina of the Moscow bureau of Human Rights Watch, unknown individuals abducted Estemirova near her house in Grozny on 15 July 2009 around 8:30 a.m. Her colleagues raised an alert when she did not come to a planned meeting and went to her home, found witnesses and questioned them.[12] Two witnesses reportedly saw Estemirova being pushed into a car shouting that she was being abducted. Lokshina said Estemirova was abducted as she was working on “extremely sensitive” cases of human rights abuses in Chechnya. Lokshina said that she had been targeted for her professional activities. Human Rights Watch had demanded to the Kremlin and Ramzan Kadyrov that Estemirova be returned home safely.[13]
Vladimir Markin, press secretary for the investigative committee of the Prosecutor General of Russia, said a body of a woman with bullet wounds in the head and chest was found at 4:30 p.m. in woodland 100 m away from the federal road “Kavkaz” near the village of Gazi-Yurt, Ingushetia. Investigators found items belonging to Estemirova in the purse of the woman. These items were a passport, an ID of the Chechnya expert for the Human Rights Commissioner of Russia and the mandate of the penitentiary supervision public committee.[14][15]
[edit] Response
The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, stationed in Moscow, reported that Estemirova was engaged in “very important and dangerous work”, investigating hundreds of cases of alleged kidnappings, torture and extra-judicial killings by Russian government troops or paramilitaries in Chechnya.[12]
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev expressed “outrage” at the murder and ordered a top-level investigation.[12] Speaking in Germany at the time of her funeral, he paid tribute to her and again pledged a thorough investigation. He said it was “obvious” to him that her murder was linked to her professional work.[2]
Memorial claimed that “state terror” was to blame, calling the killing an “extrajudicial execution” by government-backed death squads.[16] Memorial’s chairman, Oleg Orlov, who was voluntarily used for protection by Chechen terrorists during the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis,[17] claimed that Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov threatened Natalia and that Medvedev is content with Kadyrov being a murderer. Orlov said in a statement: “I know, I am sure who is guilty of Natalya Estemirova’s murder, we all know him — his name is Ramzan Kadyrov.”[18][19] According to Orlov, shortly before the murder, Kadyrov made an open threat to her by saying: “Yes, my hands are up to the elbows in blood. And I am not ashamed of that. I will kill and kill bad people”.[20] Kadyrov denied any involvement and promised to investigate the killing personally. He condemned the killers, saying they “must be punished as the cruellest of criminals”.[2] It was later reported that in response to Orlov’s accusation, Kadyrov would be suing the rights group for defamation, and would target Orlov personally in the complaint.[21] Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, Kadyrov’s human rights ombudsman, called Orlov’s accusation “groundless and ludicrous”.[16]
Medvedev responded to the accusation, saying the timing of the crime, a day before his trip to Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, was a provocation intended to give rise to “the most primitive theories and those most disagreeable to the state”.[16] Merkel said she expressed her “outrage” over the killing in her talks with Medvedev “and made clear that everything must be done to solve this crime”.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said he was “appalled and saddened” by Estemirova’s murder. UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe stated that Ban “urges the Russian authorities to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation in order to bring the perpetrators of this heinous killing to justice, and by doing so, to send a strong and unambiguous message that the targeting of human rights activists will not be tolerated”.[22] The chairman of the EPP Group in European Parliament, Joseph Daul, condemned the perpetrators and called for investigation and bringing the perpetrators to trial.[23]
[edit] Funeral
Estemirova was “buried in line with Islamic tradition before sunset on Thursday, in a cemetery in her ancestral village, Koshkeldy, in Chechnya’s Gudermes district”.[24][25]
About 150 people attended a vigil that was held in Moscow’s Pushkin Square about nine days after the murder, following Russian Orthodox tradition. After all but 20 people had left, police arrested the organizer of the event, Viktor Sotirko of Memorial. He was held for two hours and charged with disturbing peace. Police said only 30 people had been sanctioned to attend the event, but far more had shown up.[26]
[edit] References
- ^ “Russian activist Estemirova found dead”, The Daily Telegraph, 15 July 2009
- ^ a b c Kremlin tribute to dead activist, BBC News, 16 July 2009
- ^ a b “Obituary: Natalia Estemirova“. BBC News. 2009-07-15. . Retrieved on 2009-07-15.
- ^ Estemirova obituary in Novaya Gazeta (Russian)
- ^ (Russian) Natalia Estemirova bio at Moscow-based Human Rights Online
- ^ Estemirova biography, Caucasian Knot, Memorial, computer translation
- ^ Robert Schuman Medal awarded to Estemirova and Sergey Kovalev, Group of the European People’s Party, European Parliament, Strasbourg, 13 January 2005.
- ^ Mairead Maguire presents the Reach All Women in War’s Anna Politkovskaya Award to Estemirova, Nobel Women’s Initiative, 5 October 2007.
- ^ “We want justice for Natasha”, RAW site, 15 July 2009.
- ^ (Russian)Natalia Estemirova: “It is time to bring the original sense back to many words”, interview with Nadezhda Ilyina, Journalist, issue 2, February 2008, computer translation
- ^ Natalia Estemirova: “I’m sure that human rights defenders are murdered on authorities’ blessing”, Vyacheslav Feraposhkin, Caucasian Knot, Memorial, 15 July 2009
- ^ a b c “Russian activist found murdered”, BBC News, 15 July 2009.
- ^ Human rights worker abducted in Chechnya, reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman and Aydar Buribayev, editing by Robin Pomeroy, Reuters, 15 July 2009
- ^ (Russian)“A reverberating murder”, Interfax, 16 July 2009 (computer translation)
- ^ (Russian)A human rights defender who investigated murders and abductions was abducted in Grozny and found dead in Ingushetia, Newsru.com, 15 July 2009 (computer translation)
- ^ a b c “Russia Rights Group Blames ‘State Terror’ for Killing” Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ^ Всеми имеющимися средствами…: Операция МВД РФ в селе. Самашки 7 – 8 апреля 1995 г., 1995; ISBN 5882550106
- ^ (Russian)The Memorial society on the murder of Natalia Estemirova, 15 July 2009, computer translation
- ^ According to Orlov, “Я знаю, я уверен в том, кто виновен в убийстве Наташи Эстемировой. Мы все этого человека знаем. Зовут его Рамзан Кадыров, это президент Чеченской республики.
- ^ [1], “Она рассказывала, что Кадыров ей угрожал, говорил буквально: “Да, у меня руки по локоть в крови. И я не стыжусь этого. Я убивал и буду убивать плохих людей.”
- ^ Chechen leader sues rights group after activist murder Google News. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ “Ban appalled at murder of Russian rights activist“. Press Trust of India. 2009-07-17. . Retrieved on 2009-07-17..
- ^ Estemirova’s murder regretted and condemned, Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group, Antoine Ripoll, EPP Chairman’s spokesman, 15 July 2009.
- ^ BBC report on Estemirova’s assassination
- ^ Russia Today.com report on Estemirova’s assassination
- ^ Vigil for Russia activist ends in clashes, arrest. The Washington Post. July 24, 2009
[edit] External links
- Natalya Estemirova’ biography on the occasion of receiving the Robert Schuman Medal, EPP Group, 2005
- Natalia Estemirova’s statement on the killing of Zura Bitieva and her family, September 2003
- Natalia Estemirova and the Price of Courage, Robert Amsterdam’s blog
[edit] Articles
- Chechnya Stricken by ТВ, Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Caucasus Reporting Service 180, 22 May 2003
- Chechnya: Amnesty Fails to Inspire, Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Caucasus Reporting Service 191, 14 August 2003
- with Aslambek Badilayev: Grozny Returnees Remain Penniless, Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Caucasus Reporting Service 237, 9 June 2004
- with Musa Musayev: Chechnya: Fleeing Villagers Protest, Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Caucasus Reporting Service 293, 30 June 2005
- Estemirova, Natalia (2007-10-04). “The Courage of Anna Politkovskaya“. The Nation (2007-10-22). . Retrieved on 2009-07-16.
- Chechen Activist to Victim Video by New York Times; produced by Emily B. Hager
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