NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS OF KRASNODAR ASK PROSECUTOR
GENERAL OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO APPOINT INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORY
GROUP ON CASE OF ARMENIAN MASSACRES IN NOVOROSSIYSK

YEREVAN, APRIL 25. ARMINFO. A number of nongovernmental organizations
of Krasnodar region, as well as representatives of the intelligentsia
appealed to Prosecutor General of Russia Vladimir Ustinov with a
request to appoint an independent investigatory group regarding the
case on Armenian massacres in Novorossiysk.

The authors of application ask Vladimir Ustinov to pay attention to
discrimination of ethnic minorities and systematic infringement of
human rights in Krasnodar. “Taking into account the fact that no
criminal case connected with discrimination of the rights of ethnic
minorities has not been brought to the court during the last several
years, we ask You to appoint an investigatory group regarding the
case on conflict of a group of Cossacks with Armenians in town of
Novorossiysk”. The representatives of the NGOs also required from the
Prosecutor General’s Office sooner investigation of the case,
detection and punishment of the people, who sow international
dissension in Krasnodar.

Representatives of the Novorosiysk Human Rights Committee, the head
of the community “Kurmanch”, lawyers of the program “Migration and
law”, the leader of the Turks-Meskhetins of Krasnodar region, the
chairman of the Krasnodar regional NGO “Human Rights Center”,
Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper of the Armenians of Russia
“Yerkramas”, representatives of the cultural-economic commonwealth,
members of the Union of Russian writers, chaplain of International
Evangelistic Alliance, the chairman f the Department of General
Psychology of Novorossyisk branch of the Moscow humanitarian-economic
institute, members of the board of the association “Memorial” and
other signed to the appeal.