Paul Goble
Staunton, Dec. 9 – Leaders of Chechen, Buryat, Bashkir, Circassian and Oyrat-Kalmyk national movements have called on their peoples to take part in the defense of Ukraine against Russian aggression as part of what must become their armed struggle against Russian imperialism and for the freedom and independence of all peoples currently enslaved by Moscow.
The appeal was issued by an international conference devoted to the End of Empire that took place Kyiv on December 7 (t.me/s/nomad_svoboda reposted at rusmonitor.com/lidery-naczionalnyh-dvizhenij-korennyh-narodov-rf-prizvali-k-vooruzhennoj-borbe-protiv-rossijskogo-imperializma.html).
In a resolution, they declared that "Russia is pursuing a policy of ethnic and religious assimilation of enslaved peoples, persecuting and imprisoning national activists, and conducting disproportionate mobilization for war, which leads to a physical reduction in the number of indigenous peoples. Xenophobia has become an undisguised state policy.”
They added that “all peoples under the rule of the Russian Federation, as well as individual territories, have the full and inalienable right to self-determination, including the right to political independence and the creation of their own states. The continued existence of Russia as an empire and a "prison of nations" poses a constant threat to the entire free world.”
And these representatives of the national movements expressed their gratitude to the Anti-Imperial Bloc of Nations (ABN) for organizing the conference and for its adoption of the principle that “for the independence of national republics, it is necessary to struggle with arms in one’s hands.”
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