18-07-09 and 20-07-09

Daimohk Chechen children's dance ensemble at Sadler's Wells

The Chechen children's dance ensemble Daimohk is coming to Sadler's Wells for an evening of exciting, energetic dance performed to live music.

Twenty-eight children aged 6-16 will be coming all the way from Chechnya to perform. They are exceptional dancers. Here is a link to read more. http://peacebuildinguk.org/?page_id=4

See here for a sample: http://bit.ly/R0J5e

Daimohk will perform on Saturday, 18th July at the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN (Angel Tube) at 7.15 pm. You can buy tickets through Sadler's Wells Booking Office: 0844 412 4300 (Mon-Sat 9am-8.30pm) or Minicom (textphone): 020 7863 8015. Any profits will go to Peacebuilding UK, charity no. 1105864.

The Law Society of England and Wales, Amnesty International and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre are holding a seminar in London on July 30th to discuss how perpetrators of human rights violations in Chechnya can be brought to justice. 

The speakers will include Natalia Estemirova of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Grozny, Professor Philip Leach, Director of the EHRAC and Victoria Webb of Amnesty International. 

The event will take place at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lance, London WC2A 1PL between 6-8pm.

More details are available here: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/events_details.asp?ID=833

RSVP to Kirsty Stuart by e-mail k.stuart@londonmet.ac.uk

The Save Chechnya Campaign will be marking World Chechnya Day with a commemorative event on Sunday 24th February, 2-6pm at Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, off Edgware Rd, London, W1H 4LP. Nearest tube stations: Marble Arch and Edgware Road.

Please attend to learn more about a day that few are aware of and yet none should forget. All welcome. Entry free.

1:30pm: TALK: Deportation and Exile. Then and Now.

Learn about the deportations, the consequences for the Chechen people and the continuing effects being felt today.

2:00pm: FILM SHOWING: Coca - The Dove from Chechnya

Coca - The Dove from Chechnya is the heroic and true story of one woman: Zainap Gashaeva (nicknamed Coca) who was born in the exile. Since the beginning of the Chechen war in 1994 she has been collecting video tapes and interviews about the war that Europe and World has ignored. It is estimated that in the last ten years up to a third of the Chechen population may have been killed as a result of Russian "anti-terrorist" operations. Disappearances and murder of civilians by the security services remains commonplace in Chechnya. In the midst of war and repression Coca and her helpers have remained determined to discover and record the truth of what has been happened to Chechnya. This film is a story of Chechnya today told by Chechens themselves.

For more information contact Save Chechnya Campaign at info@savechechnya.org or visit http://www.worldchechnyaday.org/page/London_United_Kingdom