Prosecutor General Office
HEAD OF THE RUSSIAN INFORMATION CENTRE MIKHAIL MARGELOV ON THE SITUATION AROUND CHECHNYA Voice of Russia 14.01.2000 -- The Prosecutor General's Office has dreadful, monstrous video materials that last for about 200 hours. These are materials of several types: cassettes, recorded by terrorists in order to send them to the families of hostages or to the heads of the companies they used to work for. These are terrible shots, containing scenes of tortures, insults and humiliation. There are also cassettes meant for deterrence showing a still alive Russian soldier being beheaded with a knife - all this in colour and accompanied by sound. And finally there are cassettes of the third type - the ones recorded by terrorists for their own amusement, 'home video' as Americans put it, sort of bravado and insolence, you know. These contain beheadings, shooting off fingers, cutting off genitals. All this is really monstrous! In my opinion, the things I have seen are beyond the limits of normal human perception. We have demonstrated part of these materials to foreign correspondents during private views at the Russian Information Centre and in Helsinki, where we went during Vladimir Putin's visit there. The Press Minister Mikhail Lesin demonstrated this cassette in the USA, at the International Teleforum in New York.
Chechen Video MaterialsSOURCE: The Independent Information Center of Chechen Republic (IICCR)
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- I beg to give them money, please. I can't bear it any longer... Let the brother come and help. Give them money. After all we do have it, I beg you... They are beating me... oh... every day... I beg you, dad, give... Or tell them to kill me... I beg you... I can't bear it... Please... I can't bear this beating. Give them money... We have it. Why do you say we don't have it... Please, don't beat me... please... if you contact the police they will kill me. Don't do it... Please... Don't cut it off... Don't do it, I beg you very much... Please...
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- Please, dad... Please...
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