Celebrity Tourorists & the ‘Terrible’ Spectacle of Re-territorializing Trauma in Chechnya’s Post- Urbacide City (Or, No! You Are Never Going To Survive Unless You Get More Than A Little Crazy). Dr Andrew Wilford. Senior Lecturer in Theatre, University Of Chichester, UK. Acknowledgements: My sincere thanks goes to colleagues who have made valuable contribution and support to the development of this research paper. Particular appreciation is extended to Dr, Gabriella Calchi-Novati, MANCEPT 2015: Biopolitics 2.0: Life In An Age Of Digital Uncertainty workshop participants and members the ASTR 2015 Traumatic Structures Working Group. 2 ANALOGUE 3 Human Rights Foundation Empire State Building, Suite 4515 • New York, NY 10118 Ph: (212) 246-8486 • Fax: (212) 643-4278 www.humanrightsfoundation.org •
[email protected] Václav Havel September 26, 2011 CHAIRMAN Dear Shakira, INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL Kenneth Anderson According to an AFP wire and officials from the Chechen Government, on Vladimir Bukovsky October 5 you will attend the birthday of the President of the Chechen Republic, Palden Gyatso Ramzan Kadyrov, in Grozny. I´m writing to inform you of the critical human Garry Kasparov rights situation in Chechnya, explain the role that the president has played in Mart Laar this situation, and request that you cancel your attendance. Álvaro Vargas Llosa Jacqueline Moudeina According to the human rights foundation Memorial, since Vladimir Putin Abdel-Nasser Ould Ethmane appointed Ramzan Kadyrov as the President of the Chechen Republic in 2007, Kadyrov is accused of using torture, causing disappearances, and authorizing Park Sang-hak extrajudicial executions. Additionally, Kadyrov has imposed a strict Islamic Mutabar Tadjibayeva moral code, enforced by the police, which restricts freedom of expression.