A tragedy in Russia

[Phil Payne]

I don't like to see this group politicised, and I don't have Dan's permission for this post.

Perhaps if Putin's jackbooted thugs hadn't murdered around 10% of Chechnya's 1 million
population over the last decade or so he wouldn't have the problem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2460305.stm

And I don't like the use of "rape", either.  There is no evidence of it whatsoever, just as
there is no evidence whatsoever of "rape rooms" in Iraq.

Let's keep this group about Audis.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Kessel" <KBATPO at comcast.net>
To: "Audi A4 list" <a4 at audifans.com>; "Audi Q-list" <quattro at audifans.com>; "Audi S-list"
<s-car-list at audifans.com>; "Audi Biturbo list" <biturbos4 at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 6:25 PM
Subject: NAC: A tragedy in Russia


> Posted with the permission from Dan Simoes.
>
>  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Dear friends and fellow Audi enthusiasts,
>
> As we all know, an unspeakable tragedy has happened o­n the 1st of September 2004.
> A group of terrorists had taken over 1,000 hostages in a Beslan school, most of
> whom were little children. The terrorists used children as human shields in the
> windows, raped them in the classrooms, deprived of food and water and made them
> drink their own urine. When some of the children tried to flee they were shot in
> the back. The terrorists booby-trapped the school with plastic explosives stuffed
> with steel balls and bolts and eventually detonated them. The death toll is in the
> hundreds. You can see the blood chilling photographs here:
> http://public.fotki.com/yartsev/school_seige_traged/
>
> There is a grass roots fund raising effort going o­n right now, in which I am also
> involved. The Fund's H.Q. is located o­nly 40 minutes away from me.
>
> The Fund was successful in helping the victims of the Moscow theatre hostage
> crisis two years ago. It has non-profit status and the donations are deemed tax
> deductible by the IRS. The Fund's collections and disbursements are transparent to
> the public. What makes them unique is that they make a point of personally going
> to Russia and giving out the monetary help directly to the victims and/or their
> families hence making sure that every penny reaches its intended recipient and not
> some crooked official in the government.
>
> You can find the Fund's official statement in the .html format here:
> http://www.livejournal.com/community/sfbayarea_ru/119491.html
> as well as o­n the Fund's own website in the .pdf format.
>
> You can reach the Fund's website at http://www.moscowhelp.org or by clicking the
> banner which rotates at the top of the www.S-CARS.org pages or in the top of my
> own page if you follow the link below my sig. line.
>
> I would like to ask you to distribute the relevant information in your respective
> organizations in order to give us the desperately needed exposure. Please consider
> placing o­ne of the Fund's banners o­n your site if you run a web site of your own.
>
> Please don't hesitate to ask me directly should you need anything translated from
> Russian into English:  igor at s-cars dot org or KBATPO at comcast dot net
>
> Thank you very much for all the help you may wish to extend. God bless you!
>
> Sincerely,
> Igor Kessel
>
> -- 
> Please follow this link to learn how YOU can help the little victims
> of the Beslan school tragedy: http://home.comcast.net/~KBATPO/
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