Danish Refugee Council ASF / Danish People’s Aid North Caucasus Situation Report No. 41 DRC/ASF PROGRAM OF EMERGENCY AND INTEGRATION ASSISTANCE TO THE VICTIMS OF THE ARMED CONFLICT IN CHECHNYA 30 September 2001 Latest developments On 31 August a spokesperson of the International Committee of Other News the Red Cross in Moscow said that more than 2,000 children from Chechnya have undergone mine awareness training, On 10 September Lecha Kadyrov, the nephew of the organized by the ICRC. She said this training program is head of the pro-Moscow civil intended for the Chechen children currently living in Ingushetia, administration was killed in who will have to return to Chechnya soon and may get Chechnya. His car came under confronted with this danger. She announced that the committee fire at about 10:00 am as Lecha had produced a puppet show on the basis of North Caucasian and three of his friends drove fairy tales specially for the Chechen children. from the settlement of Tsentoroy to Kurchaloy to On 18 September, the Head of pro-Moscow civil administration donate blood for Lecha's sister, who is undergoing treatment at of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov started a 6-day the local hospital. Lecha working visit to the Middle East, Kadyrov’s press secretary Edi Kadyrov died immediately. Isayev reported. Kadyrov is expected to visit Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. He will meet a number of regional leaders, On 17 September, Russian including Husni Mubarak, Bashar Assad, King Abdallah II and Federal Security Service’s Saddam Hussein. The main objective of the trip was announced department in Chechnya reported that a technical as "demonstration of Chechnya’s true face to leaders of Middle description of the Boeing-737 East states." Kadyrov is accompanied by top Muslim clerics of jet and pilot’s manual had been Dagestan, Karachai-Cherkessia and Ingushetia. found in a cache belonging to Chechen separatists. The On 19 September the famous British actress Vanessa plane’s description in electronic Redgrave has arrived in Ingushetia as a UNICEF ambassador, form was recorded on a CD- where she met with Ingush President Ruslan Aushev. Aushev ROM, found in a cache in a told Interfax that she came on a humanitarian mission and woman’s house in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, Kurchaloy District. intended to study the situation with refugees from both The cache, that is believed to Chechnya and North Ossetia. "The actress will visit refugee belong to a gang of a certain camps where she will meet people and discuss possible Little Abdurakhman, also humanitarian aid for them," he said. According to Mr. Aushev contained an explosive device, Redgrave and other UNICEF representatives after their visit weapons, ammunition and would submit a report to UNICEF on the position of refugees Wakhabbi literature. in Ingushetia, especially on the hardship faced by children at refugee camps. President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Lord Russell-Johnston has said On 24 September the Russian news agency Novosti reported, the recent terrorist attacks in the quoting a source in the Russian special services, that Russian U.S. will not change the PACE security forces have detained a man who owned a house position regarding the situation in where a map detailing the attacks on the World Trade Center Chechnya. The tragic events in in New York was reportedly found. A map showing the strikes the U.S. are unlikely to cause against the US World Trade Center with the word "jihad" PACE members to ignore human rights violations taking place in written on the other side of the map, was found in a cache in Chechnya, Russell-Johnston said the detained man's house in the Chechen town of Argun. in an interview published on 22 Operatives from the Federal Security Service, the Interior September in Noviye Izvestiya Ministry and the prosecutor's office took part in the operation newspaper. to detain the man. On 24 September, Russian Beginning with 28 September, a curfew has been imposed President Vladimir Putin delivered a 72-hour ultimatum for Chechen in the whole territory of Chechnya from eight o'clock in the rebels to lay down their arms, and evening to six o'clock in the morning, according to the there were conflicting reports over headquarters of the Russian Interior Ministry's group in whether the two sides had open Khankala. During the curfew, the movement of any direct negotiations. The RF vehicles is forbidden on the roads of Chechnya. The Presidential envoy in Russia’s presence on civilians in the streets will be qualified as Southern District Kazantsev, who at one stage oversaw the illegal actions. On all roads of Chechnya civil motor traffic Chechen campaign, on 25 is limited. At the checkpoints, militiamen have been September, said that he had met ordered to examine the transport and the passengers with an undisclosed representative especially thoroughly. of Maskhadov. He added that the negotiation process had "almost begun”. DRC/ASF Registration Ingushetia According to the latest DRC/ASF survey data as of 28.09.2001, the number of IDPs living Ingushetia constitutes 146,922 persons. The majority of the IDPs live in Sunzhenskiy District of Ingushetia, neighbouring to Chechnya (52,549 persons). At present the survey data is processed at three DRC/ASF Information Centers (1 in Malgobek, 1 in Sleptsovsk and 2 in Nazran). The database is up-dated fortnightly. For details on registration data, please see Annex 1, Tables 1, 2. Chechnya As of 28.09.2001, the Chechnya population constitutes 789,251 persons, having as many as 134,439 inner IDPs in the area (Annex 1, Tables 3, 4, 5). The Chechnya database is served by 5 DRC/ASF Information Centers (in Urus-Martan, Shali, Gudermes and two in Grozny). Distribution Ingushetia WFP/DRC/ASF Joint Program of Emergency Assistance For the period from 1 up to 30 September 2001, DRC/ASF conducted WFP-funded distributions of flour, sugar and salt to Chechen IDPs living in Ingushetia. As a result, 1,547.52 MT of w/flour were distributed, along with 17.194 MT of salt and 57.315 MT of sugar among more than 114,000 IDPs, staying in Karabulakskiy, Malgobekskiy, Nazranovskiy and Sunzhenskiy districts of Ingushetia. From the beginning of WFP distribution on 18 February 2000 and up to 30 September 2001, DRC/ASF distributed in total more than 29,522.18 MT of food to Chechnya IDPs, living on the territory of Ingushetia. (Annex 2, Table 1). DRC/ASF permanent distribution points in Ingushetia: Food rations (WFP items) Sugar 0,5 kg per person In Ingushetia, DRC/ASF distributes food commodities Salt 0,15 kg per person through 23 distribution points (DP): Flour 13,5 kg NAZRAN (7 DPs): Plievo, Nazran City, Altievo, Gamuzi, DRC/ASF warehouse facilities Barsuki, Nasyr-Kort. Malgobek (non-food) 1,098 m2; SUNZHA (7 DPs): Sleptsovskaya, Alkhasty, Galashki, Nazran “Kamaz-Center” - 3,960 m2; Troiskaya, Muzhichi, Nesterovskaya, Nazran-3 (food/non-food) – 1,302 Chemulga. m2; Nazran-4 (non-food/building MALGOBEK (9 DPs): Psedakh, Sagopshi, Noviy Redant, materials) – 470 m2; Zyazikov-Yurt, Voznesenonskaya, Aki- Nazran-5 (building materials) – Yurt, Verkhniye Achaluki, Sredniye 2,547 m2; Achaluki, Nizhniye Achaluki. Plievo (food) – 2,750m2. KARABULAK (1 DP): Karabulak Town and suburbs. Chechnya DRC/ASF Program of Emergency Assistance to the people of Chechnya From 12 to 26 September 2001, DRC/ASF delivered to Chechnya 35 trucks loaded with WFP food commodities. The total of commodities, including flour, salt and vegetable oil, were equivalent to 322.05 MT. Since the beginning of the operation of WFP distribution in Chechnya, DRC/ASF distributed more than 3,570.2 MT of food commodities. (Annex 2, Table 2) Areas of DRC/ASF food distribution in Chechnya: - ECHO-funded distribution: Urus-Martanovskiy, Shalinskiy, Kurchaloyskiy, Nozhay-Yurtovskiy, Vedenskiy Districts and 2 IDP camps in Nadterechniy District. - WFP food: Groznenskiy Rural District, Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny Besides, during September 2001, DRC/ASF has been conducting the distribution of ECHO- funded food assistance. Thus, from 12 up to 29 September, there have been delivered to Chechnya 133 trucks loaded with 1,307.949 MT of food products (See Annex 2, Table 3). On 12 September, DRC/ASF delivered to Urus-Martan 150 bed sheets procured for ECHO. In the framework of its Shelter Program, from 1 until 29 September, DRC/ASF delivered to the republic of Chechnya 69 trucks with building materials, procured for ECHO and DANIDA. (Annex 2, Table 4). Besides, in September, DRC/ASF distributed in Komsomolskoye settlement of Chechnya 1226 children’s sweaters, procured for DANIDA funding. From 21 until 29 September DRC/ASF delivered to the republic and distributed 336,518 tins of canned beef, provided by the EU. (Annex 2, Table 5). On 12 September 2001, DRC/ASF also distributed in Urus-Martan 20 UNHCR-funded jerry cans. On 12 and 25 September, there were distributed 155 ASF-funded stoves P-4 in Urus-Martan and Shali. Shelter Program Chechnya Since the beginning of the implementation of the Shelter Program in Chechnya in November 2000, there has been registered 7,479 houses subject to reconstruction, 905 of them being registered during September 2001. 4,855 of the registered houses have been rebuilt (307 of them in September). The re-registration in the settlement of Kalinina of Grozny City is in the process of implementation. Apart from houses of 1st and 2nd degrees of destruction, also houses of 3rd degree are registered there (partially destroyed walls). Besides, the registration of houses of 1st and 2nd degrees continues in Itum-Kalinskiy District of Chechnya; initial registration in Shatoyskiy District has been started.