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Human rights activist Irina Halay talks about the government

Written by Арслан Саидов

Вторник, 01 Февраль 2011

Human rights activist Irina Halay talks about the government and victims of terrorist attacks

On February 1st, 9 days after the terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport, Moscow will remember the victims of this tragedy. Over the part 10 years in Russia, according to information from public sources, more than 70 terrorist attacks have taken place. Most of these have been in the North Caucasus. Since 2001 there have been more than 1,300 killed in these crimes, and about 3,500 injured, but there is still no such thing as “a victim of terrorist attack” under Russian law. Irina Halay, chairman of the ‘Volga-Don’ public organization promoting the protection of the rights of victims of the Volgodonsk terrorist attack, discusses with Radio Liberty who or what is interfering with the adoption of such a law:

Irina Halay: Russia is the only country where there is no law on the social protection of victims of terrorist attacks. The Beslan children, the Volgodonsk children, and the children of ‘Nord-Ost’ are in need of rehabilitation. It should have been necessary to treat children and then observe them for a protracted period, as well as mothers who were pregnant and gave birth while still injured from these attacks. This never happened, and so children with various syndromes were born.

RL: What are the key provisions of your bill?

Irina Halay: Social rehabilitation. There are young people, who completed college or an institute, and at age 25 suffered injuries and found themselves unable to work in their specialty. The state should have provided them retraining. I am speaking of professional, medical, and housing rehabilitation. People should have been moved out of an area where a terrorist attack was committed. A vehicle blew up by an apartment building, and people suffered inside their homes. They were left there, and to them it seems that that they still live in that world, in that terrorist attack.

RL: Do you understand why this law is not adopted in Russia?

Irina Halay: Unofficially, I was told that if this law were to be adopted they would have to pay compensation to everyone in Ingushetia, Dagestan and Chechnya. But the fact is that in Volgodonsk 20 thousand people are officially affected — this was the biggest terrorist attack in Russia. Now those disabled as a result of this attack are recognized as disabled “from a general illness.” The same is true for everyone who suffered in Beslan, ‘Nord-Ost’, Volgodonsk, and Domodedovo: they are all recognized as having been disabled in some domestic accident.

RL: What problems will those who were injured or lost relatives at Domodedovo run into? How would you advise them to act?

Irina Halay: They must unite — it is the only way. They must make sure that medical findings record that they received injuries as a result of a terrorist attack. Quite recently — just in the last or two — they started writing “post-blast syndrome.” Before this the State scrambled to distance itself from what we are: victims of a terrorist attack.

RL: The compensation that they now pay to victims of terrorist attacks, are these sums, in your opinion, adequate to what victims should receive in these bombings?

Irina Halay: I think that it is impossible to estimate what a human life is worth. As for treatment, here everything is rather difficult. Yes, they make a one-time payment, but those who suffer in bombings have shell shock and barotraumas, that is, injuries from being hit by a blast wave. Here they do not explain to victims how to treat this. In these people there is a gradual destruction of the organism, and almost all their money is spent on treatment.

RL: Your tragic experience shows that, following a bombing, after while they start to forget the victims, or, conversely, all but accuse them of subversive activities, such as you, for example.

Irina Halay: Yes, it was after 2007. Back then we traveled to Vienna, at the invitation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to the first meeting on victims of terrorist attacks. We spoke there about our problems in Russia, and how they practically remain unsolved. As a result, the Deputy Foreign Minister said that we were specially selected and invited to the meeting in order to discredit Russia.

By Arslan Saidov

http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/2293351.html

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