Three Chechen children dead from cold in PL

[Jaga]

I thought this was especially tragic story. A chechen woman was crossing boarder illegally in Southeastern Poland (Bieszczady). She left three girls covered with fern leaves, took her 2 years old son to look for help. When she found a help it was too late, three girls were already dead, the temperature was only about 35 F and they did not have warm clothing.

here is more in Polish:
wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,4487913.html

[Jaga]

Here is the information about it in English, somehow the youngest child gender changed, but this is not important in the aspect of what have happened:

WARSAW, Poland: Polish border guards said Friday they found the bodies of three Chechen girls after picking up their mother, who apparently spent days wandering in the mountains after the family entered the country illegally.

Border guards Thursday spotted the emaciated woman, carrying a 2-year-old daughter, near Ustrzyki Dolne, a town at the foot of the Bieszczady mountains near the Ukrainian border, said spokeswoman Elzbieta Pikor.

The mountains form the Polish-Ukrainian frontier, which is now the European Union's eastern border.

The woman told officials she had left three dead daughters in the mountains, and pointed them in the right direction.

"Around midnight, the searching guards found the bodies of three girls, ages 6, 10 and 13," Pikor said. "The mother and the fourth child were hospitalized and their condition is improving."

After initial questioning, it appeared the family had crossed the border illegally and spent four days wandering around the highest and most dangerous parts of the Bieszczady range in the cold and rain.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the girls' death. Prosecutors in nearby Lesko opened an investigation.

"It is hard to blame the woman — she probably was not aware of the conditions high in the mountains," prosecutor Zygmunt Slabik said on TVN24 television.

Since communism fell in 1989, Poland has been part of a transit route to Western Europe for illegal migrants from the former Soviet Union, although numbers dropped after border controls were reinforced when Poland joined the EU in 2004.

In the first seven months of 2007, border guards picked up 195 illegal migrants on Poland's eastern border, said Jacek Sonta, a border guard spokesman in Warsaw.

Almost 3,600 Chechens have applied for refugee status in Poland this year, most of them after entering the country legally, Sonta said.

www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/14/europe/EU-GEN-Poland-Migrant-Deaths.php

[troubledgoodangel]

It is a very sad story, indeed, but at least the children are now in Heaven. The Chechens, on the other hand, whose nation has been devastated by the Russians, continue a life of hell. We Christians, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant, cannot remain silent when an entire people is being eliminated! Moslems they may be, but we share with them the same Heavenly Father. Russia has committed a genocide, to protect her perceived "strategic interests," in particular the access to the Middle East. The Chechens should not be made victims of Russia's expansionism! The Chechens were placed in that area by God, and they have been there for centuries ... until Mr. Putin decided that they should be there no more ... or should remain vassals of Russia! This scenario reminds me that of Armenia in 1915-1917, when the Turks chose genocide for similar "strategic" purposes. At that time, the world emerging from decades of revolutions and wars, decided not to act (as it did not act at Yalta, for identical reasons). But there is no such excuse now that we have had no major world war for sixty years! Now the entire world ought to rally behind the Chechens, to right this wrong, and to save the innocent children, who continue to flee Chechnya in search of freedom!