Attachments: CaucAsia Bulletin-May 2006-Gender &
Conflict.pdf
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CAUCASIA International Information-Analytical
Electronic Magazine
CAUCASIA - May
2006
GENDER &
CONFLICT
Articles from:
*Russia
*Georgia
*Armenia
*Azerbaijan
*Ukraine
Sample Story Excerpt: Russia
"Nine year old Khursheda Sultonova was killed in
February of 2004 in Boetsovo side street of St. Petersburg. A group of young
nationalists, armed with clubs and knives, attacked Khursheda, her father, and
her young cousin, who were returning from the ice rink. The girl received
multiple knife wounds, from which she died in her partents' hands.
Two years later, the jury brought out a verdict,
which the human rights organizations called a "moral catastrophe." The court
accused the 8 men partaking of the homicide, of "hooligan action." One more
indicted pleaded not guilty. The decision of the court shocked the family of the
victim and the representatives of the Tajik Embassy in Moscow.
Natella Ponomariova, the defense attorney of the
victim, explained this verdict of the court by the fact that the accused were
allegedly the offspring of the high ranking Russian officials, according to some
data, the law enforcement authorities. This was followed not only by wave of
protests in Russia, but also a new surge of killings of the women from
Kirgizstan, a Senegalese student................"
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