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April 30, 2004

New EU Membership, Old Human Rights Problem - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM

On May 1 2004, Czechs, Estonians, Cypriots, Latvians, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Maltese, Poles, Slovenians, and Slovaks woke up citizens of the European Union, which prides itself on respect for fundamental human rights (as per the Treaty on the European Union).

Today, a Latvian court found an 81-year old Russian WWII veteran guilty of war crimes for his participation in a 1944 retaliation strike against nine Latvians who worked for the Nazi police during Nazi Germany's occupation of Latvia. Vassily Kononov, who had fought invading German troops as a guerilla fighter, does not accept the guilty verdict - "it was war, I was fighting against the occupants of my motherland," he said.

Moscow had wanted the EU to think twice before accepting new members whose human rights standards might not be up to speed as far as "the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms" (Treaty on the European Union, Article 6) are concerned. Now, instead of requiring applicants to straighten up their human rights records before they join, the EU might find the problem in its lap... More >>

March 2004

Linguists in race to save endangered languages - By Earl Lane

WASHINGTON - In half a dozen fishing villages in a remote part of central Siberia, the Middle Chulym people are losing their language, one of hundreds of tongues likely to vanish around the world during the next half century.

Among the Middle Chulym, who survive by ancestral ways of hunting, gathering and fishing, only about 40 of 426 people continue to speak the native language, according to K. David Harrison, a linguist at Swarthmore College who traveled to the region last year to document two Turkic languages in imminent danger. He found that no one younger than 52 can speak Middle Chulym language fluently, and the rest speak only Russian language.

"Each language that vanishes without being documented leaves an enormous gap in our understanding of some of the many complex structures the human mind is capable of producing," Harrison said... More >>

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