To mark the release of the book ´To be a Chechen – testimonies from the children of war,´ the Norwegian Helsinki Commitee and the publishing House Humanist forlag invite Wednesday 22 November to a seminar on this topic at the Human Rights House in Oslo. The editors of the book, Irina Stsjerbakova and Grigorij Sjvedov from the Russian human rights organisation Memorial, will be present to tell about the project that lead to the making of the book. (13-NOV-06)
Based on the invitation sent out by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee today, this article has been made by HRH-F / Niels Jacob Harbitz.
Killings, disappearances and torture have all become commonplace events to the people of the Chechen Republic, but the conflict is only rarely paid much attention in the media. The assassination of he journalist Anna Politkovskaya, right, clearly demonstrates how difficult it is to report from the war in the Caucasus region. This book, therefore, is a unique document in which youth and children from the war zone get to tell about their everyday lives, their stories and their aspirations.
(The seminar begins at 10.30 and finishes at 12.00. The book is published in Russian and Norwegian only)
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