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Admit Killing Chechen Family Created: 01.07.2004 12:47 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:09 MSK, MosNews The combined armed forces grouping for the North Caucasus on Thursday admitted killing a Chechen family in the village of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali district, Ekho Moskvy radio has reported. Military prosecutor Alexander Mokritsky said that a criminal case has been opened regarding the incident that took place on 26 June. He confirmed that on that day an artillery strike, that had apparently been aimed at a group of rebels, accidentally hit a house. The family in the house had returned from a refugee camp in neighboring Ingushetia a day earlier. As MosNews wrote last week, following large scale rebel attacks in Ingushetia, human rights groups reported that refugees had been intimidated by masked men telling them to return to Chechnya. http://www.ingushetiya.ru/news/3803.html (tr. by M.L.) Several Ingush teyps announced a blood vengeance on Dokka Umarov Ingushetiya..Ru, 01.07.2004 02:13 In the course of their own investigation conducted by the relatives of killed Ingushes on the 21st-22nd of June, it has been established that particular atrocities toward innocent civilians had been committed by the fighters of Chechen field commander Dokka Umarov. Several Ingush teyps have declared a blood vengeance on Dokka Umarov and began their searches in order to liquidate him before he will fall into the hands of justice. Over 80 Civilians Missing in Chechnya in 2004 Created: 02.07.2004 16:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:22 MSK, MosNews Over 80 civilians have disappeared without a trace in Chechnya since the start of this year, Dmitri Grushkin of the Russian human rights center, Memorial, announced Friday. According to his center's information, 194 Chechen residents were kidnapped in the war-torn, break-away republic, Interfax quoted Grushkin as saying. 97 people were released, fifteen were found dead, and 82 have were never seen again. He also said that 141 people were killed in the republic — 67 were civilians. The rest were 32 federal troops, four employees in the Chechen administration, and 14 militants. 24 bodies have not been identified. 30/6/2004 Abducted Dagestanis forced to confess to terrorist acts Arsen Gasanbekov, one of the three Dagestanis detained in Chechnya on June 26 in a vehicle in which six kilogram of trinitrotoluene was discovered, was on June 28 delivered from Grozny, Chechnya, to Makhachkala, Dagestan, having given a written undertaking not to leave the place and produce himself to the police on request. Caucasian Knot's correspondent has been able to find out that the three detained Dagestanis are residents of Makhachkala who were abducted by strangers in late May. There is information that the name of one of them is Abdulkadyr and the other's name is Mukhamed. The latter is a fourfold karate-do champion of Russia. Russian security agencies have subjected all the three to torture. In this way, they were made to "confess" to being involved in terrorist acts and murders of officers of internal affairs agencies committed in the republic, according to Arsen Gasanbekov. The abducted young men were kept in different places. On June 26, they were brought to a strange place not far from Grozny. There, some people in masks put them into a vehicle, having tied up their hands and feet and blindfolded them, after which they disappeared. In a while, officers of the Goriacheistochninskii Department of Internal Affairs approached the scene and delivered them to the police. The prosecutor's office of Grozny's Goriacheistochninskii district has presently indicted all the three Dagestanis for preparing an act of terrorism in Chechnya. The case has already been sent to the Grozny district court. However, Chechnya's law enforcement agencies are sure that all the three Dagestanis are not involved in committing terrorist acts and that the court will pass a verdict of not guilty on them, because the young men were beaten beyond recognition when they were detained. Author: Emilia Kazumova, CK correspondent |