Address to the First Session of the Parliament of the Republic of Chechnya.Part 2
December 12, 2005
Grozny
Выступление на первом заседании парламента Чеченской Республики
12 декабря 2005 года
Грозный
Those people who have, in my view, shown their worst side, took advantage of the problems in our past and appropriated the right to speak on behalf of the entire Chechen people. But life has shown that they put their personal ambitions, their personal political ambitions and their material interests higher than the interests of the Chechen people. How else can we explain the gang of terrorists that invaded the fraternal Republic of Dagestan in 1999? What connection can there be between the fight for independence and attacking Dagestan? What is there to even debate in this respect? The simple fact is that this was yet another attempt in history to manipulate and take advantage of the Chechen people.
This is what Chechnya ended up with as a result of destructive forces activities in the early and mid-1990s, this and all the other negative events that took place in the republics life during those years complete economic collapse, the closure of hospitals, schools and kindergartens, unpaid wages, pensions and benefits of various kinds and the occupation of the republic by armed gangs and foreign mercenaries who established their own control over each and every political structure. I know all this and you know it too. But this is not all and it is perhaps not even what is most important.
Most terrible of all was that the people who came here bearing arms brought with them a perverted interpretation of the Koran that goes absolutely against the traditions of the peoples of the Russian North Caucasus. Not only did they pervert the Koran in their interpretations, but they discredited it in their deeds. At least, they attempted to discredit it, for it is not possible to discredit Islam, a world-wide religion infused with humanist ideals. But there were people who looked at all that was happening, people who saw these problems and negative tendencies, who realised that this was a dead-end road that would take their people nowhere, and who used this realisation to make the courageous decision, the only possible decision, namely, that freedom, independence and prosperity can be achieved only together with a free and prosperous Russia.
I remember very well my conversations with Akhmat-Hadji Kadyrov, and I have spoken about them publicly in the past. I tried to dissuade him from becoming president of the republic. I said to him, You know, lets wait a while. There are still a lot of problems, security problems, problems with legal violations, problems rebuilding the economy and the social sector, and all of this will be on your shoulders, it will all be your responsibility, even if you are unable to do anything yourself to address it. And I remember his reply very clearly. He said essentially the following: I believe, he said, that the time will come when Chechnya will flourish and the people will live in prosperity and security. And then there will be plenty of people wanting to head the republic in such conditions. But today it is people like I who are needed, people who need nothing for themselves and who are ready to give everything they have, even their life if need be, for the sake of their people.
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Chechnyaaaaa 2 years ago
Все правильно говорит !!!
aulsmen 3 years ago