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SOCHI: LAND OF GENOCIDE

Honorable Members of the Olympic Committee

You could recently appreciate the preparations and promises of the town of Sochi, candidate for hosting the 2014 winter Olympic Games. During your visit, you must have been surely able to travel without any infringement to admire the natural beauty of that region. That is very lucky of you, because it is not the case for a great number of inhabitants of Caucasus where Sochi is situated. Those who want to travel to a nearby district where they are not registered need a special permit which may take up to 7 days to get!

When USSR collapsed in 1991, all those nations that got away from it could find a certain freedom of movement, except for Caucasians. Their situation as hostages of Kremlin got worse and worse each year. Unfortunately, they cannot even hope that the possibility of Olympic Games' being held in Sochi bring them a small pouch of air to breath. Such an event might have been indeed the promise of peace finally coming to the region. It could have been the promise of a window opening for inhabitants towards the external world. Unfortunately, the possibility of appointing Sochi for Olympic Games has already been acting as a nightmare because it is already serving as a pretext for more security measures, which mean more and more unbearable repression covering the Caucasus.

No, we are not talking about that far away (!) Chechnya torn apart by violence, we are talking about highly touristic nearby places like Dombai or Arkhiz, just behind Sochi. Do you know that those beautiful highlands are now banned to the local population of Circassians and Karachay? Only tourists having got a special permit from the FSB can have access there to admire the beauty of the blue mountain lakes, the green pine forests and to breathe the pure mountain air.

Do you know that those beautiful highlands are now banned to the local population? Only tourists having got a special permit from the FSB can have access there to admire the beauty of the blue mountain lakes, the green pine forests and to breathe the pure mountain air.

Caucasians themselves are kept away from their traditional highlands. Just like the blockade in the 19th century which isolated them from the external world, they are now tightly held in a new vice and separated from today's world.

The fragile economy of mountain people has shattered with those repressive measures. Their ancestors were already forced by the Russian invaders in the 19th century to come down from their highlands where they had been living since time immemorial. Many of them were massacred, and the survivors were forced to leave definitely the Caucasus, their motherland, to get refuge in Turkey, at the end of a very tragic exodus starting in 1864. Sochi and its surroundings are the native lands of Ubykh nation that do not exist any more. They were almost totally exterminated after their last battle of resistance in Krasnaya Polyana in May 1864.

Today, the few native Caucasians who remained in their motherland are forced once more to quit their mountains. Is it on those mountains, "cleaned up" from their native population, which the Olympic sportsmen are going to ski? Are the bobsleigh tracks going to be constructed on the bones of people annihilated by bloodful wars for the conquest of the Caucasus?

No, we do not want to believe that such a thing is possible. The Olympic flame cannot shine on a vast graveyard of nations. The Olympic spirit cannot be compatible with the spirit of a genocide. And we are sure that no Olympic sportsman would be happy to see the perspective of Olympic Games transformed into a hell for the local people. The vice which compresses those people today will not loosen with the approaching of Olympic Games; it will be just the opposite.

In these conditions, the Russian government should decide: whether the surroundings of Sochi are a dangerous region where it is necessary to multiply "cleansing" operations against " wahabi terroristes" in order to prevent bloodful events like those of Beslan or Nalchik, and in this case it would be totally insane to invite Olympic sportsmen and thousands of spectators to such a dangerous area where they would be a direct target, or the Caucasus is a calm and peaceful place without any ethnic tension, without any conflict, violence or confrontation, and in that case, the Russian government should explain the reason for all that repression, for all those "cleansing" operations, all those restriction on freedom of movement, all those check-points on roads which are becoming more and more unbearable for the local people. We hope that the honorable Members of the Olympic Committee will ask Russian authorities some explanation on those two questions and examine the whole thing in the light of the existing dilemma.

We absolutely do not want to mix up sports and politics, and we absolutely are not against Olympic Games taking place in another region of the Russian Federation, but we are against the games in the Caucasus stricken by blood and fire since many centuries already as well as today!


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YOU ARE MAD!!!!GEORGIA IS GENOCIDE LAND!!!!!SALZBURG TOO....Sochi have no genocids!!!!YOU ARE Bloo"y Bit'h....!!!!!!!!!!!Georgian occupants was doing it with their nazi president Gamsohurdia when destroy villages and shoted old peoples with childrens in South-Osetia.....This Mistake of Abort Stalin was prezent to Georgia this land in 20 centure to Georgia...separate Osetia for two lands,gave Abkhazia to Georgia....just because he want to do bigger his motherland Georgia and after when repablics started getting of freedum....they tru to again come back to the freedom light..and they done it,but world only support Kosovo...and its their big mistake....

Sochi was only grreks colony,after it was Abkhazian,after Russian....What vahabits?????They are only in GeorgiA!!!!!......All terrorists was shoted by russians.......FSB is good work now...so AL qaida can do terracts and in EU too...more there then in Russia...Russia suport Palestina and Iran......EU is already in Afghans and Iraq...So where spend Olympic Games..In Tiflis????Your kurds will destroy all Osman Empire....You do genocid of Byzantia!!!!!You occupated this christian land,the last land of Rome Empire and destroy all christian churches!!!!You killed armenians!!!!Everybody know it!!! in 16 age you done the bigger occupation and destroy Byzantia...with arabian genocide!!!!!!You are just hate Rusia,becouse they return their native lands in south.....!!!!!

WE WILL NEVER FORGIVE GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS!!! http://sochi2014.com/ ITS TRUE!!!Australia,EU,USA,Russia know,that Turkey done the biggest genocide of history when murdered poor armenians...You hate Sochi,because this city have a lot of armenians!!!!!FASHIST!!!ADIGA...BILDIGA...DI'K|DIG A!!Whats this is.....Kurdistan???

Al QAIDA DOWN WITH ALL RADICAL ISLAM!!!!KURDISTAN WILL NEVER BURN!!!

You should go to a reception to a psychiatrist! ! !

To the President of the International Olympic Committee
The Honourable Mr. Jaques Rogge

Dear Mr. President:

We write to appeal to you as Circassians, the descendants of the exiled indigenous population of the North-West Caucasus. While we completely support the honorable goals of the Olympic Committee, and consider this movement as vital for building friendship and mutual understanding, we are strictly opposed to the bid to hold the Winter Olympics in the North-West Caucasus in the area of Sochi.

The region of the Black Sea coast in the North Caucasus saw a monstrous genocide perpetrated against the native Circassians at the hands of the Russian state in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Russo-Caucasian war was a bloodbath that resulted in the extermination or exile of more than 90% of the indigenous inhabitants of this region. Indeed, the Circassian sea coast from Anapa to Abkhazia became a massive cemetery for our nation.

At this time the aim of the Russian Empire was not only the colonization of our homeland, but the full extermination of the Circassian population. During the war the Russian army annihilated civilian population centers – including children, women, and the elderly. In the process, thousands of villages were destroyed. By 1864 the Circassian resistance was smashed, and the Russian army entered a period of unprecedented and inhumane ethnic cleansing. Massive numbers of the inhabitants of Circassia were drowned up and down the Black Sea coast in the process of violent deportation, while hundreds of thousands of others died from famine, cold, and epidemics.

A policy of mass exile of Circassians continued until 1914, and was only stopped by the onset of the First World War. Presently, less than 8% of Circassians live in their indigenous homeland, and are divided into different administrative regions of the Russian Federation. Almost all are deprived of the right to their own lands.

The Circassians have repeatedly appealed to the highest Russian authorities to recognize the facts of the genocide of our nation, and to open an unimpeded path for the return of the descendants of exiled Circassians to their homeland. These requests have always been ignored or denied.

We are aware from media reports that an appraisal committee of the International Olympic committee has visited Sochi. Frankly, we are shocked at the cynical behavior or demonstrated by Russian leaders. While displaying the great beauty of Kransnaya Polyana (meaning Red Valley), these officials did not consider it relevant to explain that it was so named because of the Circassian blood shed in the final battle for independence, or that it is the location of mass graves of the victims of Russian genocide. Russian leaders are prepared to invest billions of dollars in a bid to hold the Olympic Games, and explain that this is in an effort to strengthen friendship between nations. However, over four million Circassians live dispersed in fifty countries of the world, and Russia refuses to invest any resources in the return of these exiled peoples to their homeland. We believe that the restoration of historical justice and the relationship of the Circassian peoples will first and foremost build friendship and mutual understanding between nations.

This land is rightfully ours, and was given to us by the Creator God. This land is also ours according to standards of international laws that note the rights of indigenous peoples. As Circassians, we regard the holding of the Olympic Games on our homeland in the places of mass graves and genocide as an act of vandalism. This clearly does not correspond with the high principles proclaimed by the International Olympic Movement. Therefore, we respectfully ask the International Olympic Committee to deny the bid of Russia to hold the Olympic Games in 2014.


The Circassian Association of Israel Nafna

Circassian Genocide

FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE