[Regnum] The information that Nigerian President and ECOWAS Chairman Bola Tinubu allegedly offered the rebels in Niger a transitional period of nine months was denied by the organization. The corresponding ECOWAS communiqué was published on August 31 on the X social network (formerly Twitter).
The document clarifies that a report allegedly published by Agence France-Presse (AFP) about a "so-called transitional period" should be treated as fake news.
“The demand of the ECOWAS Council of Heads of State and Government is clear: the military authorities in Niger must immediately restore constitutional order by releasing and reinstating President Mohamed Bazum,” the organization said in a statement.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the rebels who came to power in Niger as a result of a coup d'etat banned the activities of national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations and UN agencies in the areas of military operations.
In addition, the National Council for the Salvation of the Motherland (NSSR), formed by the rebels in Niger, demanded that France withdraw its troops from the territory of the republic before September 3.
For its part, France is determined to support strongly any efforts of the states that are members of ECOWAS, including military ones, to restore constitutional order in Niger.
The activities of national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations and UN agencies were banned by the military who came to power as a result of a coup d'état in Niger. This was reported on August 31 by Agence France-Presse.
“Due to the current security situation and the ongoing performance of the assigned tasks by the Niger Armed Forces, the Ministry informs the international organizations, national and international NGOs and UN agencies located in Niger that their activities and movements in the areas of (military) operations are temporarily suspended,” — said in a statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, formed by the rebels of Niger.
The document does not specify which regions of the country the decree applies to.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the National Council for the Salvation of the Motherland (NSSR), formed by the rebels in Niger, demanded that France withdraw its troops from the territory of the republic before September 3.
It is noted that the inhabitants of Niger are increasingly expressing dissatisfaction with the presence of the French military in the country. Local authorities are calling for them to block access to food, electricity and water at their base in Niamey in order to force French troops to leave Niger.
On August 30, the Niger Military Council annulled the agreement on the military presence of French troops in the country.
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[KavkazUzel] Law enforcement agencies named Aslanbek Parchiev, a native of Ingushetia, as one of the participants in the terrorist attack in Beslan in 2004.
…a project of Basayev’s post-Soviet, Al Qaeda-linked Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death two years later became the Al-Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate.
Relatives said they did not believe in his involvement in the attack.
As the " Caucasian Knot " has reported, today in Beslan there are mourning events on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the seizure of the school. People come to School No. 1 to lay flowers in memory of the victims of the 2004 terrorist attack.
On September 1, 2004, militants seized 1,128 hostages in the gymnasium of School No. 1 in Beslan. The operation to free them ended on September 3, 2004. As a result of the attack, 334 people were killed, including 186 children, and another 810 people were injured. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report " Terrorist act in Beslan (September 1-3, 2004) " and a chronicle of the terrorist act and the events that followed it.
Law enforcement agencies said they had identified one of the participants in the terrorist attack in Beslan in 2004 - it turned out to be Aslanbek Parchiev, a native of Ingushetia. For 19 years, Parchiev, whose identity has not yet been established, was listed in the documents in the case of the terrorist attack as "militant No. 11" - one of five terrorists whose corpses could not be identified then, Izvestia reported.
According to the publication, in May, investigators received information about the discovery of a match with the fingerprints of one of the unknown terrorists. “It was established that in May 2002 this person was brought to administrative responsibility in Moscow. His fingerprints were requested and a fingerprint forensic examination was carried out.", said Albert Khasauov, senior investigator for especially important cases of the Investigative Committee for the North Caucasus Federal District.
The conclusions of the investigation were confirmed by a DNA test taken from his relatives. Parchiev was also identified by the only surviving militant, Nurpasha Kulaev, who is serving a life sentence. In an interview, he said that he was forced to take up arms. However, the victims of the attack were unable to identify Parchiev from the photo.
According to Khasauov, Parchiev's relatives have not seen him since 2003. And during the last meeting, he said that he was leaving for Kazakhstan to work.
“He was 32 years old when he left home to work. He was not married. He dropped out of college, although his parents dreamed that he would continue the family profession of a doctor,” said older sister Marina Parchieva.
The younger sister Zareta Parchiev added that her brother was hit hard by his father, who, in a fit of aggression, often broke down on his son. "Maybe that's why he left home then," she said.
Both Parchiev sisters said they did not believe in the version that their brother was a terrorist and participated in the seizure of a school in Beslan. "He would never do something like that for some idea or money," said Marina Parchieva.
Documents on the complete match of DNA, both women signed.
Recall that only 14 years after the tragedy, in December 2018, the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District announced the first official recognition since the terrorist attack that the storming of the school was planned from the beginning, despite the protests of local residents. The presidential envoy also confirmed that the school was fired from a tank.
In 2019, on the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack, the book Outpost. Beslan and Its Hostages was published, written by Olga Allenova, a journalist for the Kommersant publication. The author then told the "Caucasian Knot" blogger Alan Tskhurbaev that this is a book about a tragedy that is still "not lived through by our society, not comprehended, because there were and remain many lies about this terrorist attack," and therefore, "there is no hope that it won't happen again."
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[KavkazUzel] The director of the school museum dedicated to the Beslan tragedy is ready to share a number of exhibits with the new museum, which is being created directly on the site of the terrorist attack. The victims and relatives of the victims expressed their hope that the new museum would help preserve the memory of the incident.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that the activist of the "Voice of Beslan" Emma Tagaeva opposed the construction of the museum. Until the investigation into the terrorist attack in Beslan is completed, the construction of a museum on this territory could destroy the evidence. The "Mothers of Beslan" committee, on the other hand, is in favor of the construction, saying that it will become a place of consolidation of people.
On September 1, 2004, terrorists took 1,128 hostages at School No. 1 in Beslan. The operation to free them ended on September 3, 2004. As a result of the attack , 334 people died , 186 of them were children. Another 810 people were injured. Only 14 years after the tragedy, in December 2018, the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, Alexander Matovnikov, made the first official admission since the terrorist attack that the storming of the school was planned from the beginning, despite the protests of local residents. The presidential envoy also confirmed that the school was fired from a tank.
A museum is needed at school No. 1 in Beslan, said Nadezhda Gurieva, a history teacher, director of the school museum at the new school and victim of the terrorist attack.
"The fact that the museum was needed was clear from the very beginning, while still sitting in the gym, I understood that this would have to be done. Of course, then I did not impose such a function on myself, but when everything was over, it became clear to me that nobody not necessary, and we began to collect it all with the children. And when they built a new school, they all moved there. Among the exhibits there are those that cannot and cannot be exhibited at school because of their size and emotional impact," she said.
Nadezhda Gurieva has no doubts that the school where the attack took place should have a museum. "This should be a museum not only of our terrorist attack, but of all the terrorist attacks that took place in North Ossetia, about which no one remembers and does not know," she is sure.
The walls of the former school were conserved from further destruction, and the previously lost building was recreated. The center "Beslan. School No. 1" will host an exposition dedicated to the Beslan tragedy. It is supposed to use modern museum technologies. Design decisions were discussed with the "Mothers of Beslan" committee and the victims of the attack, the press service of the government of North Ossetia reported on its website on August 10.
Nadezhda Gurieva calls the idea of the International Cultural and Patriotic Center "Beslan. School No. 1" "not bad".
"Such a center, in principle, is needed. But where it was built, it was impossible to build it. This place, its new building part, where almost all of the special forces died - eight people out of 10. It was necessary to build in a different place, also on the school grounds, but there was another place. I don't mind, but is it a museum at the center or a center at the museum? They still haven't decided and haven't they understand how it should work. In addition, they do not have exhibits to exhibit there. I will not give them anything from our museum," Gurieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
However, according to her, she has material for the new museum. "There are a lot of property from the old school. There are boards, doors, tabletops with fragments, there is some furniture, paintings that were given to us, which cannot be placed in the school museum either due to their size or semantic impact. There are many children's drawings. From of each class that we entered, we took something away from there, they lie there. It can be done in a very interesting and different way," she said.
Nadezhda Gurieva believes that the arguments of Emma Tagaeva from the "Voice of Beslan" against the construction of the museum, due to the fact that evidence can be destroyed, are not tenable.
"The school was without a roof for seven years, and all the evidence that could still be found there simply fell off and was thrown away over the years. Both the roof and the ceilings collapsed. It had to be strengthened so that someone else would not be killed there," she said.
According to Gurieva, she goes to the old school all the time. "My feelings in this matter must be taken into the fist and hidden deeper, because I constantly bring people there: students, children, military, foreign delegations. There are a lot of people," she said.
Representatives of the "Mothers of Beslan" committee at today's press conference said that preserving the memory of the tragic events is one of the main tasks after the investigation of the terrorist act. Construction reconstruction and conservation measures on the territory of school No. 1 have been completed, said Aneta Gadiyeva, deputy chairman of the organization.
According to her, now the main task is to fill these rooms with expositions and new meanings, including through personal stories to convey, talk about those problems and the pain that these people endured.
The director of the Victory Museum Alexander Shkolnik, who was recently in Beslan, was involved in the implementation of this project.
"We hope that it will be a world-class museum, the Center for Combating Terrorism, where people from all over the world will come and they will know that their story is being told here too. We hope that by the 20th anniversary (of the attack) it will be operational", - said Aneta Gadieva. The entire school will be involved in the implementation of the project, she noted.
The daughter of Nadezhda Gurieva, Irina, on September 1, 2004, together with her mother, sister and brother, came to the school line. Everyone was taken hostage. Irina's brother and sister died.
“I remember a lot. There is no such thing that in these 19 years a complete realization of what happened has come. Every year you grow up and begin to understand more and more, so every year it becomes harder and harder. Because you realize what a tragedy and how terrible it is. The end of August and the beginning of September is the most difficult time for me when you are completely immersed in events," said Irina Gurieva .
The daughter of Bela Tsgoeva, a teacher at school No. 1 , Alina, received shrapnel wounds to her knees as a result of the terrorist attack, and was treated for a long time. Now Alina is already married and has two children.
“It’s like it happened yesterday. Everything is so fresh in my memory, where she was sitting, where she was standing, who was sitting next to her, how she behaved there, how she got out of there. Everything, everything, everything. When you come there, you want to be very loud cry, because in fact it does not go anywhere, it is constantly remembered. Every time the soul hurts the same way, it is always with us. These 19 years are like 19 days," said Bela Tsgoeva.
Tsgoeva supports the idea of creating a museum on the territory of school No. 1. “We won’t forget it ourselves, we won’t forget it, but a museum is a memory, a part of the history of what once was. It’s not for one year, it’s for centuries. I believe that a museum should be, only I have no idea where they will get so much material from," said Bela Tsgoeva.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on April 13, 2017, the ECHR recognized the violation of the rights of the relatives of those killed and injured during the seizure of the Beslan school in 2004 and awarded 409 applicants compensation for a total of 2.955 million euros and another 88,000 euros as compensation for legal costs.
In September 2019, the Ministry of Justice reported on the payment of compensation. Russia ignores the conclusions of the ECtHR and refuses to investigate the circumstances that led to numerous casualties among the hostages, activists Ella Kesaeva and Aneta Gadieva said. The authorities are obliged to execute the decision of the Strasbourg Court in its entirety, not limited to the payment of compensation, lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out.
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[Regnum] Moscow offered Syria and Turkey to return to an agreement allowing Turkish forces to fight terrorists on Syrian territory, but in agreement with Damascus. This was announced on September 1 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“In informal contacts, we proposed returning to the philosophy of 1998, when the Adana Agreement was signed,” the diplomat said at a meeting with students and faculty of MGIMO.
He recalled that this agreement assumed that there was a terrorist threat, and in order to stop it, Ankara would have the right, in agreement with Damascus, to send its anti-terrorist structures to a certain depth of Syrian territory.
As IA Regnum reported, earlier the Special Representative of the President of Russia for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said that the draft roadmap for the normalization of relations between Syria and Turkey, proposed by Russia, is ready.
Following the quadripartite meeting held in Moscow on May 10, the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey instructed their deputies to develop a roadmap for normalizing relations between Syria and Turkey. It is necessary to move this process forward.
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Will Turkey give up its so-called Syrian National Army paramilitaries and its support for various Muslim Brotherhood (and worse)-linked Syrian opposition groups that started in 2011? It is my understanding that these were the reasons the Assad government quit the 1998 Adana Agreement, which was all about driving out the PKK.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... President and former Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... chief minister Parvez Elahi was rearrested under 3-MPO (Maintenance of Public Order) by the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police shortly after being released by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), according to sources.
The seasoned politician would be put under house arrest in Adiala jail for the next 15 days, the sources privy to the matter added.
Earlier today the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the anti-graft watchdog to release Elahi.
The former provincial chief executive had filed a petition against NAB's move to arrest him in a corruption case.
LHC Justice Amjad Rafiq announced the verdict after Elahi was presented before the court.
During the hearing today, Justice Rafiq warned NAB that the court would issue a warrant against the accountability body's director-general if Elahi is not produced today.
Justice Rafiq said that a complete inquiry into his arrest will be conducted. "I am ordering to release Parvez Elahi on an immediate basis," remarked the judge.
[GEO.TV] The inflation rate stayed above target at 27.4% in August, data showed on Friday, as reforms set out as conditions for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan complicate the task of keeping price pressures and declines in its rupee currency in check.
The South Asian nation is embarking on a tricky path to economic recovery under a caretaker government after a $3 billion loan programme, approved by the IMF in July, averted a sovereign debt default.
Reforms linked to the bailout, including an easing of import restrictions and a demand that subsidies be removed, have already fuelled annual inflation, which rose to a record 38.0% in May. Interest rates have also risen, and the rupee hit all-time lows. Last month the currency fell 6.2%.
The August data from Pakistain's statistics bureau showed a slight easing from July's 28.3% inflation rate, but food inflation remained elevated at 38.5%.
Authorities also raised petrol and diesel prices to record highs on Friday.
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In mere months, entire Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho have been chased out by settler violence and state policies — paving the way for a total Israeli takeover of thousands of acres of land.
There are almost no Palestinians remaining in a vast area stretching east from Ramallah to the outskirts of Jericho. Most of the communities who lived in the area — which covers around 150,000 dunams, or 150 square kilometers, of the occupied West Bank — have fled for their lives in recent months as a result of intensifying Israeli settler violence and land seizures, backed by the Israeli army and state institutions. The near-total emptying of the region’s Palestinian population shows how Israel’s slow but gradual process of ethnic cleansing is continuing apace, effectively annexing large swathes of the occupied territory for exclusive Jewish settlement.
More than 10 settler outposts — which are illegal even under Israeli law, though the current far-right government is working hard to legalize them — have been established in this area over the past few years, with their settlers weaponizing shepherding as a means to take over Palestinians’ land and force them out. The few small Palestinian communities that remain in the area may also soon be forced to leave, out of grave fear for their physical safety and mental wellbeing. In the last year alone, hundreds of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in this way.
Technically, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from this area was not an official act of "transfer." Neither the Israeli army nor the Civil Administration — the occupation’s bureaucratic arm — arrived with trucks, loaded the residents onboard, and destroyed their houses.
But they didn’t have to: in the face of unremitting settler violence and crippling restrictions by the Israeli authorities, the Palestinian residents felt that they had no choice but to flee. Some packed up their modest belongings, others left them behind. Largely agricultural communities, they relocated to areas where it would be more difficult for them to make a living, without pastoral land, but where they would at least enjoy temporary peace of mind.
Palestinians from several of the displaced communities described the same pattern to +972: Israeli settlers arrive with their herds and prevent them from grazing on land where Palestinians have grazed for decades; then armed settlers would proceed to harass them day and night, even entering houses, without the army or police intervening. Everyone described the same, overwhelming feelings of fear and distress under the shadow of these settler invasions.
"It’s like 1948," said Mohammed Hussein, a resident of Ein Samia — invoking the year of the Nakba ("catastrophe") and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland during Israel’s establishment. Waah, waah, it's Jewish land. Get used to it. Go to Egypt or Jordan if you're so scared. You're not under threat of existential destruction. Israel? IS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
