Auschwitz_Part_II
08-14-2004, 09:28 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3565304.stm
In a house which Dilaver Karimov's family bought with their savings after fleeing the Uzbek city of Ferghana, the father and his three children are struggling through a tattered English-Russian phrasebook.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39954000/jpg/_39954436_delaver203b.jpg Packed and prepared: The Turks are looking forward to their journey
They take it in turns to read, huddled around the last table left in what was once a posh living room.
The Karimovs are getting ready to start from scratch again - for the third time in six decades.
Their grandparents were deported from Georgia by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1944.
Forty-five years later, in 1989, the family had to run for their lives again - this time from a hostile crowd in the Uzbek city of Ferghana.
[color=red]Now, they are going to the US - along with thousands of ethnic Turks from the Krasnodar region of Southern Russia.[/color]
Registration restriction
[color=red]They are leaving as part of a resettlement programme managed by the US State Department and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).[/color]
American diplomats and representatives of international NGOs say that for the last 15 years, Meskhetian Turks have been denied even the most basic of human rights here.
Only one in three Turks managed to get a Russian passport.
The rest are stuck in a legal limbo - with documents issued back in the Soviet era which are now invalid.
This means none of the Turks can get what is known as "registration", a vital piece of paper without which no Russian can be admitted to a hospital, paid pension and benefits - or even be offered a job. Hmmm, smell that 'Kwa!
In a house which Dilaver Karimov's family bought with their savings after fleeing the Uzbek city of Ferghana, the father and his three children are struggling through a tattered English-Russian phrasebook.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39954000/jpg/_39954436_delaver203b.jpg Packed and prepared: The Turks are looking forward to their journey
They take it in turns to read, huddled around the last table left in what was once a posh living room.
The Karimovs are getting ready to start from scratch again - for the third time in six decades.
Their grandparents were deported from Georgia by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1944.
Forty-five years later, in 1989, the family had to run for their lives again - this time from a hostile crowd in the Uzbek city of Ferghana.
[color=red]Now, they are going to the US - along with thousands of ethnic Turks from the Krasnodar region of Southern Russia.[/color]
Registration restriction
[color=red]They are leaving as part of a resettlement programme managed by the US State Department and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).[/color]
American diplomats and representatives of international NGOs say that for the last 15 years, Meskhetian Turks have been denied even the most basic of human rights here.
Only one in three Turks managed to get a Russian passport.
The rest are stuck in a legal limbo - with documents issued back in the Soviet era which are now invalid.
This means none of the Turks can get what is known as "registration", a vital piece of paper without which no Russian can be admitted to a hospital, paid pension and benefits - or even be offered a job. Hmmm, smell that 'Kwa!