The Supreme Council of Kabardino-Balkarian SSR
Resolution
of February 7, 1992, N 977-XII-B
On condemnation of Genocide of Adygeans (Circassians) during the years of Russian-Caucasian war
The centennial colonial Russian-Caucasian war (1763-1864), bringing to Adygians (Circassians innumerable disasters and sufferings, does not have the similarities in the history of new era. The major part of the Adygean ethnos, including over 90% of population of Kabarda, was exterminated, more than 500 thousand Adygean population was expelled by Tsar autocracy to the Ottoman Empire.
Giving the historical and politico-legal evaluation of Russian-Caucasian war, the Supreme Council of Kabardino-Balkarian Soviet Socialist Republic resolved:
1) To consider the mass extermination of Adygeans (Circassians) during the Russian-Caucasian
war and forceful expulsion thereof from their historical homeland to the Ottoman Empire as
the act of genocide, the grave crime against the mankind.
2) To submit the proposal to the Supreme Council of Russian Federation to consider the issue
on recognition of the genocide of Adygeans (Circassians) during Russian-Caucasian war and
granting the foreign compatriots thereof the dual citizenship.
3) To assign the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Kabardino-Balkarian SSR and the
Council of Ministers of Kabardino-Balkarian SSR to elaborate the program of measures on
rehabilitation and repatriation of foreign Adygeans (Circassians).
4) To obtain the status of the exile nation for the foreign Adygeans (Circassians) through the
Supreme Council of Russian Federation and the relevant international organizations.
5) To declare May 21 as the Day of Memory of Adygeans (Circassians) – the victims of the
Russian-Caucasian war, as the day-off.
The chairman of the Supreme Council of Kabardino-Balkarian SSR
Khachim Karmokov
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