CLAIMS OF RUSSIAN ATROCITIES:

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CLAIMS OF RUSSIAN ATROCITIES:.||=================================================================================||||a)C4N: U'LAY||ITN|ENGLAND: London:||INT||Vanessa Redgrave (actress and human rights campaigner) speech SOT||- we ask you Mr Blair to use your authority as prime minister to accept a briefing from international human rights lawyers on the violations of the Russian government on articles 2, 3 and 5 of the European Convention - yours sincerely Vanessa Redgrave||||CS Russian priest PULL OUT to MS Redgrave and others at press conference||||GV All standing at press conference||||Cameramen||||CMS Russian priest Viktor Popkof (phon) speaking at press conference (not heard)||||GV All seated for press conference||||CMS Photographs of bombed Chechen village held by priest PULL OUT to show priest pointing out details in photographs||||CS Elderly woman in photograph||||CS Picture of young boy with woman in background|||NOT SOURCED|CHECHNYA:||EXT||GRAPHICISED PICS of Russian soldiers sitting on top of a tank with dates of alleged atrocities committed by Russian army in Chechnya below||CHANNEL FOUR "DISPATCHES" = NO RESALE/NO ITN REUSE||GRAPHICISED PICS of burnt out car with dates of alleged atrocities committed by Russian army in Chechnya below|||TX 23.3.2000/C4N||b)C4N: JON SNOW|ITN|ENGLAND: London: GIR:||INT||Vanessa Redgrave (actress and human rights campaigner) interview SOT||- letter to PM Tony Blair speaks of Russia violating articles 2, 3 and 5 of the European Convention which they are a signatory to||- the Convention forbids the atrocities done to civilians in Chechnya by the Russian government in the recent months||- there is also the US Convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide / any government can take question to the United Nations||- evidence coming in daily for example by C4 Dispatches programme / also by Russians like Viktor Popkof(phon) who is a brother of...