15 November 2007, 12:32

Polish journalist filmed a story on children's fate in post-war Chechnya

Polish journalist Marcin Mamon has made a video story about the problems of children in post-war Chechnya based on a family with six Chechen children, living alone in the building of a ruined factory.

The story was put on air to the attention of televiewers of Polish TV Channel TVP2 in the evening on November 14 within the 15th issue of the "Korespondent" program.

As the story background, the author chose a recent tragedy in the Polish mountains of Bieszczady, when at an attempt to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Polish border; the Dzhabrails Chechen family lost their three daughters.

Marcin Mamon has been visiting Chechnya regularly for more than 10 years. According to his words, during all this time he was most strongly impressed by the story of six Chechen children who live by their own in the deserted building of a ruined factory. Their mother is alive, but her time is completely dedicated to her seventh child who was heavily wounded during bombardments in Grozny and now stays most of time in hospitals.

According to the statistical data presented by the author, about 40,000 children were lost in Chechnya during the war.

"In Moscow, Ukraine and Belarus, hundreds of Chechens are still searching for the channels to escape abroad. They are deceived by their guides, arrested on the borders, but all the same the flow of refugees never goes down," Musa Kaimov, observer of the "Grozny Worker" newspaper, writes.

We remind our readers that in the pages of the "Caucasian Knot" they can find the book entitled "Being a Chechen: Peace and War in the Eyes of Schoolchildren", compiled of the compositions of Chechen schoolchildren on the past and present of Chechnya (it was published in 2004 by the Society "Memorial" and the "Caucasian Knot" Internet media).

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