SUKHUMI WANTS TO DECLARE GEORGIANS A CRIMINAL NATION
Experts’ club
Aug 23 2010
Georgia
Levan Kiknadze , President of the Club of Experts
“Abkhazia will have to live in accordance with international law”,
– said head of Abkhazian puppet regime Sergei Bagapsh in one of
his speeches. He said this… and formed, together with Moscow, a
joint Russian-Abkhazian commission. Apparently, they really are very
concerned about complaints of Russians who lived in Abkhazia before
the conflict and who rightly demand return of property appropriated
by Abkhazian armed formations. To permanently resolve this rather
controversial and contentious issue, the commission did not take long
and has developed the so-called “concept”. But it was not such a simple
matter, as it seems at first glance. It turns out that after seeing
final version of the draft of the concept envoys of Bagapsh had to
make efforts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the document to be
signed. Abkhazians did not agree with the basic formula: “protection
of property rights of Russian citizens”. They demanded it to be
changed it as follows: “protection of property rights of citizens of
Russian nationality” (or something similar) to avoid possible claims
to property by citizens of Russia of Georgian nationality.
In fairness it should be noted that Moscow did not go as far as formal
recognition of obvious manifestations of Nazism which is the foundation
for the entire pseudo-Abkhazian “statehood”. Sukhumi can do anything
– Russia nurtured the Abkhazian ethnocracy in order to use them to
carry out the ethnic cleansing of Georgian population and to maintain
the status quo while itself to remain aside as if it had nothing to
do with it. But the signature of Russia under the flagrant violation
of fundamental human rights is quite another matter. And at that the
Hague Court starts to consider a lawsuit by Georgia against Russia
for violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination …
Therefore, the first version of the wording was left in the concept.
But under the condition that the wording of the concept will not be
decisive, and the main and decisive factor will be that was long ago
decided by the separatists regarding Georgians – to prevent their
return to Abkhazia. Naturally, the adoption of the concept in this
not very encouraging form and, especially, its public discussion is
not good for the regime of Bagapsh. But despite this, the separatist
leader did not prevent “leakage” of information. First he ordered
to publish in the Nuzhnaya newspaper published in Abkhazia ” first
letter of a certain Nesterenko who expresses her fear of a possible
return of Georgians on the basis of this concept (perhaps she had taken
possession of property of a Georgian) and then supposedly oppositional,
but in fact anti-Georgian, article written by a man with uncertain
origin under the pseudonym of Jij Sayer Gech was also published.
The author calls this draft concept developed by a joint Abkhaz-Russian
commission as anti-Abkhazian. Besides, he does not rule out that
representatives of the Georgian side took part in drafting of this
document. In his opinion, it should appeal to Georgia in signing a
document on the non-use of force under Russian occupation discussed
within the Geneva process and which did not produce results desired
by Moscow.
Mr Gech! You seem very naive if you really believe that the document
on non-use of force signed between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides can
be a guarantee that Russia will not repeat the aggression against
Georgia like the one that happened in August 2008. We never thought
to resolve the conflict by force and are not going to do it now. So
do not put yourself in a stupid position and do not blindly follow
instructions of your masters. Creating the image of the enemy out
of Georgians is the main component of the ideology, inspiration and
driving force of which is the Russian government and the puppet regime
in Sukhumi. And you with his rhetoric are not any different from them.
So your efforts to convince us that you’re fighting zealously for
salvation of the Abkhazian ethnos are vain. If this were so, then
in the first place you would call for restoration of relations with
Georgians and for their dignified return and not for deepening of
the confrontation. Neither should you try to convince us in your
being a radical opposition. You and people like you are in the same
boat with your puppet regime and are being carried away into the
abyss. It serves you right. And we would not care, if not for the
fate of Abkhazian ethnic group future of which you so purposefully
are endangering. No sensible and knowledgeable people would believe
this absurd of which you speak …
Georgia is ready to sign a document on the non-use of force only
with Russia, and it has nothing to do with the so-called “concept”
that the Georgian side does not need. We do not need it because
we have a more substantial document on the unconditional return of
refugees. The document, backed by UN resolutions and, incidentally,
signed by authorized representatives of Russia and Sukhumi regime. In
addition, there are a number of international conventions on private
law and humanitarian law (i.e. Convention on the Status of Refugees of
1951, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
of 1950, the UN Convention of 1974, etc.). Therefore, your assertion
that “there is a feverish search for legal grounds for the return
of Georgian refugees” is absolutely groundless. And you link this
issue to a noise that was raised in your “parliament” with regards to
issuance of Abkhazian “passports” to the Georgian population of the
Gali district. You are so poisoned by separatist ideology that you
deny a third of the population of Abkhazia even such elementary human
right as an adoption of identity document. You cannot even allow an
idea that indigenous inhabitants of this land may be entitled to vote
even in your pseudo-elections and all just because they are Georgians.
It’s so natural for you that you cannot even forgive your leadership
for its attempts to put all this in the framework of international
norms – the leadership that had time to wise up a little over 17 years
and tried to avoid expressing such thoughts in public in order not
to appear fascist savages before the international community. You
are more stupid than them and thus openly state the true cause of
your animal fear: “hamper the process of destruction of our state
and Abkhazian people … do not let us turn into the minority again “.
But we can understand you. It was people like you by hands of which
ethnic cleansing of Georgian population of Abkhazia has been carried
out. For the sake of building a puppet ethnocracy you get your hands
dirty with the blood of your relatives and neighbours, violated all
human and divine laws. And you know perfectly well that you will be
able to justify the depth of your fall, at least in your own eyes,
as long as the current situation persists. By acknowledging that a
Georgian is also a human being and has the same rights, you have to
recognize all arising from this truth – the truth, putting an end to
your “case”.
But let’s return to the Russian-Abkhazian commission and the project
that, in your words, were “thrown in” by the Foreign Ministry of
Russia. Moscow was indeed faced with the need to create this concept as
the process of illegal deprivation of property in respect of Russians
and their expulsion from their homes became irreversible.
Verbal instructions to remedy the situation do not bring the desired
results. Not only the Club of Experts, but the Abkhazian and Russian
media as well wrote about this many times. While you, Mr. Gech, have
never said even a word about it. We are confident that this “concept”
that is so unacceptable for you (and which, in our opinion, is an
empty piece of paper, concocted to mislead people) will not improve the
situation, will not satisfy appetites of the “prodigal sons”. You and
your puppet government is well aware that if the said document works,
the mentioned “Russian citizens” will refer only to people of Russian
nationality and will not apply to people of other nationalities,
especially to Georgians. Armenians also should not entertain much
hope as their property rights have also long been violated and whose
number has already exceeded the number of Abkhazians…
It seems, Mr. Gech, that could not grasp the real objectives of the
said “concept”, and you do not understand that this document. If it
was really prepared in such an important body as Foreign Ministry,
it was impossible to enter restriction on just Russian citizens of
Georgian nationality. Otherwise, this would be a gross violation
of fundamental human rights. All this should be clear to you and
you should not be raising much noise. But illusory, “irreconcilable
opposition” is a mandatory attribute for Bagapsh government on their
road to building of “a democratic state” . And from time to time it
is necessary to remind the remaining population of Abkhazia about ”
image of the enemy” in the face of Georgians …
I would like to add that we think that shameless interference of some
people of unknown origin who have recently settled in Abkhazia in the
issue of return of indigenous Georgian population on their native land,
is unacceptable for us and it is a great shame for the Abkhazian
people . Moreover, they allow themselves to urge the government
of Russia and the de facto authorities of Abkhazia to announce the
Georgians as practically a criminal nation. We consider this fact
a great disgrace for the Abkhaz people who himself was declared a
criminal people by the Russian tsarist authorities and who today
are preaching the same through some Sayer Gechs and it all is done
through such authoritative newspaper as Nuzhnaya.
The Club of Experts is very interested to see what reaction will
follow this appeal, signed by the pseudonym Gech on the part of the
Abkhazian opposition leaders and generally what will happen to the
mentioned project. Then we will decide whether to publish the opinion
of Georgian refugees and their descendants, and their plans regarding
property claims that they mention in their letters. Maybe then Sukhumi
will stop publishing such articles, so annoying to Georgians.
From: A. Papazian
http://eng.expertclub.ge/portal/cnid__5802/alias__Expertclub/lang__en/tabid__2546/default.aspx