USA: ELENA BONNER, WIDOW OF ANDREI SAKHAROV, TELLS NEWS CONFERENCE THAT RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE BOMBED INGUSHETIA

Record ID: 646393

  • Title: USA: ELENA BONNER, WIDOW OF ANDREI SAKHAROV, TELLS NEWS CONFERENCE THAT RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE BOMBED INGUSHETIA
  • Date: 5th January 1995
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JANUARY 5, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV INTERIOR OF NEWS CONFERENCE 0.11 2. SCU YELENA BONNER SAYING IN ADDITION TO CIVILIANS IN CHECHNYA THE RUSSIAN MILITARY HAVE BEEN SO CARELESS HAVE BOMBED AN INGUSH VILLAGE AND SEVERAL HOSPITALS (RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) 0.51 3. SCU BONNER SAYING THERE IS A TERRIBLE SITUATION WITH HUMAN RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO RUSSIAN SOLDIERS (RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) 1.03 4. SCU BONNER SAYING HAVE PROOF, INCLUDING DOCUMENTS OF KILLED SOLDIERS, THAT RUSSIAN SOLDIERS KILLED THERE ARE OFTEN BOYS WITH LITTLE OR NO TRAINING, SOME DRAFTED ONLY A MONTH BEFORE (RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) 1.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 20th January 1995 12:00
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  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAIXNGZUVY48XW6WZKA82QP2SC
  • Story Text: Elena Bonner, widow of Nobel prize winner and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov, on Thursday (January 5) told a news conference in Washington that Russian forces fighting in Chechnya had bombed villages in neighbouring Ingushetia.

    Bonner described the war as "not about restoring constitutional order, but about destruction of the whole people," and added that a number of hospitals had been bombed by the Russian airforce.

    Speaking through an interpreter, Bonner went on to criticise the Russian army commanders for their poor leadership and described how young recruits, drafted for a month without basic training, were thrown into the frontline.

    Bonner recently resigned as a member of Yeltsin's Human Rights Commission in protest over what she said was Yeltsin's war-mongering policy.

    She was in Washington visiting members of the U.S. State Department, including Secretary of State Warren Christopher concerning the Chechnya crisis.


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