VIDEO: Alan Maskhadov speaks to Georgians

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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 02:29

Fist of all, I would like to welcome president of the brotherhood nation Michael Saakashvilli. As well, I would like to welcome the entire Georgian nation. I also would like to present my respect to Georgian people and thank them for their moral support of the Chechens in our unequal war against Russian Empire.

Today, we are carefully watching news events that are happening in Georgia. We are interested in the situation in Georgia because we are worrying about our neighbor's life and lives of our brothers.

Everything that is going on in Chechnya and in Georgia is just a clear projection of dirty and barbarian politics in the Russian government against smallest nations in Caucasia like Chechnya and Georgia. And today, when we see boiling conflict in South Ossetia where so-called Russian "peace-keepers" (as Saakashvilli said) took one conflicted sides of South Ossetia. Russians peace-keepers changed to supportive side towards South Ossetia, supporting South Ossetia, illegally, with weapons and military arsenal. But in our side, Chechens don't want to enter any other states and want to build independent sovereign state. And Chechens want to build normal civilized relations with all governments including Russia. In fact, we have Abkhazia and South Ossetia who are declaring of separation from Georgia and of becoming one of the Russian federations.

In 1996, I spoke to Abkhazian leader. I said to them that I don't understand the meaning of your war! I said:
- how can you separate from Georgia and become a part of Russia? What is freedom for you? What is the government that make such decisions? Georgia is close, it has the same culture, tradition, lifestyle, and it's not complex. But in Russia it is all bad! Russia is so challenged to be with! I mean there is no God, no believe, no tradition and no culture! In other words, they have big brothers (owners or Russia) who want you to forget about your religion, culture and tradition and to become their puppet and do whatever they said.

Participation of the Chechen forces in Abkhazia, in Georgia, isn't a better picture in Georgian-Chechen history. And today, we recognize that our men were convinced and confused. Even if we had dangerous times in 1993-1994, in any strategic plans or political plans we were supposed to do this - I say that we shouldn't have done this in any case! We didn't have the right to do that! We destructed our own struggle and our brothers which is negative in all prospects! I believe that this lesson will be enough for us for the rest of our lives!