{"id":458,"date":"2021-04-22T08:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=458"},"modified":"2021-04-22T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:44:21","slug":"erzya-leader-delivers-a-speech-in-un-blaming-moscow-for-ethnocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=458&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Erzya leader delivers a speech in UN blaming Moscow for ethnocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/span>

\u0425\u0425 session of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues continues its work.<\/span> UNPFII is annual event,<\/span> the opening ceremony took place on April 19 in UN headquarters in New York.<\/span> In order to prevent COVID-19 UNPFII-2021 is held online in videoconferencing mode.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

Syres\u2019 Boliayen,<\/span> Inyazor <\/span>(chief elder)<\/span> of Erzya people,<\/span> also took part in the work of the Forum.<\/span> In his statement he criticized policy of Russian Federation on national republics and indigenous peoples.<\/span> \u201cIn the last 30 years Erzya have been degraded from a nation of few million people into a small ethnic group on the brink of complete extinction <\/span>–<\/span> without wars,<\/span> plagues and forced deportations.<\/span> Our fellow neighbours in Idel-Ural region,<\/span> namely Mokshans,<\/span> Udmurts,<\/span> Mari,<\/span> Chuvashs,<\/span> Bashkirs and even Tatars have found themselves in the very similar situation.<\/span> Native peoples in Russia are forbidden to have their own political parties,<\/span> their national universities or even to study their mother tongues in secondary schools.<\/span> Just dances in folk dresses are allowed.<\/span> Those who stand up to fight for rights of their own people are pursued by police as extremists or sent to compulsory treatment in psychiatric institutions.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>, he said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

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This speech have become the very first statement on an UN official event delivered in Erzya language.<\/span> Inyazor\u2019s office provided simultaneous Erzya-English translation to broadcast the speech via official UN Web TV.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

Inyazor called on the international community to strengthen pressure on Russian Federation:<\/span> \u201cErzya can survive COVID-19 pandemic,<\/span> but can\u2019t survive in Russian Federation.<\/span> Only international pressure on Moscow could protect us from the very last phase of ethnocide.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>, he emphasized.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

Syres\u2019 Boliayen also provided the Secretariat of the Forum with statement about violation of rights of native peoples in Russian Federation.<\/span> The document draws UN attention to politically motivated prosecutions of Tatar community centre and Baskort public organization.<\/span> Numerous prosecutions and repressions against leaders and activists of Tatar,<\/span> Ingush,<\/span> Kalmyk and Buriat national movement are described in the statement.<\/span> Special focus is put on transparent and just investigation of the following crimes:<\/span> murder of Aslan Zhukov,<\/span> activist of Adyge Khase <\/span>–<\/span> Circassian youth movement,<\/span> in 2010;<\/span> murder of Muslim Khashagulgov,<\/span> Ingush activist,<\/span> in 2018;<\/span> murder of Evgenii Yushkov,<\/span> lappish activist,<\/span> in 2020;<\/span> assassination attempt against Evgenii Khamaganov,<\/span> founder of Erkhe <\/span>\u2013 Buriat human rights movement,<\/span> in 2015;<\/span> kidnapping of Rustam Lianov,<\/span> Ingush activist,<\/span> in 2018;<\/span> compulsory punitive psychiatric treatment against Ramilya Saitova,<\/span> Bashkir activist,<\/span> and Alexander Gabyshev,<\/span> Yakut activist,<\/span> in 2020.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n