By Andrey Romanov

In ‘Noviy Region’

Victims of the terror attacks on the theatrical center at Dubrovka, Beslan, and the Moscow-Volga airline crash intend to travel to 30 regions in Russia in order to meet with the public.  Representatives of the ‘Nord-Ost’ public organization for cooperative defense of victims of terror acts declared today at a press conference in Moscow that the aim of this action is to draw the public’s and the authorities’ attention to cases regarding these terror acts

The organization does not hide that the aim of the trips are political.

“We’re going to acquaint people with those events that we know, and about how the investigation of the terror acts is being conducted.  We still don’t know the truth about what happened at ‘Nord-Ost’.  The criminal cases continues, and its timetable is periodically lengthened, but it’s still unknown who’s guilty and of what.  If a large team of investigators had been put on the ‘Nord-Ost’ case from the beginning, then that team has been disbanded and only a single detective is conducting the investigation now.  Therefore, we’ve decided to conduct our own investigation, and we’ll tell about its results in the cities that we visit,” reported Sergey Karpov, the chairman of the ‘Nord-Ost’ organization, in a press conference today.

He also noted that the results of the first of such trips, by members of the organization to Nizhniy Novgorod, gave them the impression that people had forgotten about the terror act at ‘Nord-Ost’, as well as the Moscow apartment blasts.

According to Tatiana Karpova, co-chairman of the organization, there are few who know that, after the terror act and the gas attack, people suffered from liver and kidney failure and 12 were rendered permanently deaf.  Women who were pregnant during ‘Nord-Ost’ gave birth to handicapped children.  “One woman had a baby with cerebral palsy.  The child can’t walk and has developmental abnormalities.  All the people who survived the gas attack at ‘Nord-Ost’ have memory loss.  At times people don’t even know what day it is.  It’s awful, and no one worries about this,” she said, adding that members of the organization believe it their duty to attract the government’s attention to victims of terror acts.  “These problems must be solved, otherwise nothing will change after the elections,” she said.

At the same time, Tatiana Karpova noted that not a single official had taken responsibility for what happened, while on the other hand, the nation had received a host of new heroes and wearers of medals.  She also expressed her certainty that the terrorists were not the main culprits of the terror acts.

Marina Litvinovich, director of the ‘Terrorism victim assistance fund’ reported at a press conference that the trips to other regions were certainly connected with the presidential elections, which would occur in March of 2008.

“We have an assignment to ensure that the investigation of terror acts and the truth about them is present in the presidential elections.  This is our understanding.  This is our demand.  We should not allow these themes to be forgotten, and we should make every candidate who wishes to become president, no matter who they are, we should make them understand the problem with terrorism, the investigation of terror acts, and the truth about them.  The punishment of the guilty should be decided by the head of the government, and if it’s the president, then it’s for the government to solve, not the prosecutor general,” said Litvinovich.

The program of trips through Russian regions by victims of terror acts is to last a year, ending on the eve of the presidential elections.  They intend to visit Chelyabinsk, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Volgodonsk, and other cities, reports RIA ‘Noviy Region’.

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1. Written by CSS , on 31-01-2007 18:10 Terror victims take part in the Russian presidential campaigns    Victims of the acts of terror on Dubrovka, in Beslan, and relatives of victims lost in the crash of Moscow-Volgograd flight intend to made trips to 30 regions in Russia and meet with the community. At a press conference in Moscow, representatives of the public organization of the assistance to protection of victims from the terrorist attack on "Nord-Ost" stated that the purpose of this action to attract the attention of the authorities and the community to unpublished aspects of these acts of terror. Report

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