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Washington DC, USA

Date: Thursday, February 23, 2006

Time: 2:30PM-4:00PM

Venue: Room 2105, Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington DC

The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC) at Freedom House invites you to a panel discussion to commemorate the 1944 Deportations of North Caucasus Peoples to Central Asia by Stalin and to discuss the regional implications of the spread of violence throughout the North Caucasus today featuring

Svante Cornell
Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Johns Hopkins University-SAIS

Kelly McEvers
Writer and contributor to National Public Radio and a founding editor of www.SixBillion.org

Satsita Muradova
former lawyer with the Russian human rights organization, Memorial

with introductions by

Thomas O. Melia
Deputy Executive Director, Freedom House

The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC) at Freedom House is dedicated to disseminating knowledge and analysis of the spread of conflict in the North Caucasus and to supporting human rights defenders in the region.

Please RSVP by email to redd@freedomhouse.org, by telephone to Cassandra Redd at (202) 747-4000.


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