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http://www.lenta.ru/vojna/2004/03/05/soldier/ (tr. by M.L.) 05.03.2004 10:21:17 Drunken contract soldier shot down policeman and local resident in Chechnya In the Chechen district center of Itum-Kale a contract soldier shot down the policeman - senior sergeant of the district division of internal affairs, and a local resident. According to some preliminary data, the shooter - an employee of [district's] commedantura, Private Kozlov - was in intoxicated state. He has been detained, investigation is being conducted, reports RIAN agency with the reference to the MVD of the republic. It has to be noted that this already the second similar incident in Chechnya in the last few days. On 3 March in the populated area Tuskhoroy of the Itum-Kale district on the premises of the the Ministry of Defense, soldier Yevgeny Demyanov shot down his collegues http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl/message/36532 - two junior sergeants - Denis Demin, Ildar Fayzulin and Private Andrei Ovsyankin.
http://www.ingushetiya.ru/news/3316.html (tr. by M.L.) 05.03.2004 15:57 In Ingushetia they've been killing people lately. The law-enforcement agencies have been killing them. These people are then called fighters, bandits, participants in some acts of terror. For these murders they give awards, extraordinary promotions. But no one is asking a question: why they are not taking them alive, they do not arrest and do not prove their guilt in one or another crime in accordance with our criminal code. None of that killed recently in Ingushetia had been on the federal wanted list. We specially verified their surnames according to the base of data ofF MVD RF. I.e., those, who were destroyed by the special services, they had not been charged with commiting of any crimes. That means that they are destroyed on the basis of some suspicions, denunciations and so forth. Does this mean that the constitution of RF with its position on presumption of innocence, UPK [criminal code] and other laws don't apply? Does it mean that we are not citizens of Russia and it's possible to treat us that way? Are we have the year of 1937? Impression has been created, that the people who have been killed recently, no one wanted to take them alive for a reason. Those operations were only conducted with one purpose, to liquidate them. The authorities of republic sometimes even do not know, what subdivisions of theirs conducted one or another operation. Here, Kadyrovs guards, and agents of Chechnya's FSB and other, sometimes unknown armed units settle their accounts. Under the stamp of "special operations", a purely contract killings occur. It could be that these who join Kadyrov or some other people get together with the special services of Chechnya in order to commit a blood vengeance, to kill their competitor, or some offender. Isn't the time for Murat Zyazikov - president of the Republic of Ingushetia to stop this violence [bespredel]? Or to get dismissed, if he cannot control the republic. President of the World Organization of Caucasus Jewry Zaor Gurshamov was murdered in Moscow Friday noon. He was shot to death in front of his house, Israel Radio reported. Gurshamov, a 30-year-old banker, gave aid to many people in his community who moved to Israel. Gurshamov's father was murdered several years ago. Kavkaz-Center Kavkaz Center's editors have received another message from some unknown Russian group calling itself «Movement of Radical Political Activities 'White Shadows'». Judging from what was in the address line, the message must have been sent to many Russian mass media. The message has the form of a manifesto, making some specific threats of terrorist attacks against the Russian authorities, «unless Putin withdraws his candidacy from the forthcoming elections and thus gives equal chances to the rest of the candidates». Kavkaz Center's editors are currently consulting the lawyers and are so far refraining from publishing the full text of this message, which lists the reasons why the terrorist attacks against Russia's current regime started, as well as some other details and threats. At the same time the editors decided to publish the part of the message that mentions the blast in the Moscow metro, which happened February 6, 2004, since another unknown group 'Gazotan Murdash' («Followers of the Holy War») claimed the responsibility earlier and called this act as revenge for the crimes committed by Russian mercenaries in Chechen village of Aldy on February 5-6, 2000. This part of the message of Russian «Movement of Radical Political Activities 'White Shadows'» points out: «For some known reasons we cannot publish the signatures of members of our movement under this manifesto, but thousands of our supporters are already ready to take decisive actions. Unfortunately, an accident happened to one of our technicians. While transporting the explosive device on February 6, 2004, the handmade device accidentally went off in the metro. The device was a case with plastic explosives in it. We do not know the reason why the device was detonated. It could have been signals of cellular phones, since the radio detonator was supposed to get activated by cellular communications signals. We were not planning this act, and especially there could not have been any warnings or threats on anybody's behalf, as mass media are claiming. The incident has only confirmed our capabilities and showed the incapability of the existing ruling system to adequately react to the ongoing events. The attack on ethnic Chechens launched by the mass media is a proof thereof. The statement allegedly made by a Chechen group was concocted by the FSB and designed to increase the ethnic instability withing the modern Russian society. In our next message we will describe all technical details of the blast, which only the designers of that particular device can know, but the FSB explosion experts can only have rough data after examinations. We will thereby confirm the words about the reasons why this tragic accident happened in the metro on February 6, 2004», - these are the words which the so-called «Coordinating Council of Movement of Radical Political Activities 'White Shadows'» ends its message/manifesto with. Kavkaz-Center BBC Monitoring Detained Qatari nationals unaccounted for in Russia Source: Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, in Russian 0900 gmt 4 Mar 04 [Presenter] The arrest of Russian special service agents in Qatar has had an unexpected twist. [Passage omitted: developments in Qatar] Anastasiya Izyumskaya will bring you the latest developments that unfolded in Russia. [Correspondent] Two Qatari athletes have disappeared in Moscow. These are wrestler Ibad Akhmedov and a member of the board of Qatar's national wrestling federation, (?Nasser Ibrahim al-Madhihiki). To remind you, they and their coach Aleksandr Dubrovskiy were arrested at Sheremetyevo-2 airport [in Moscow] on 26 February. Initially, dollars al-Madhihiki had failed to declare were named as the reason for their detention. Then the Qataris were told that two of them, Akhmedov and al-Madhihiki, resembled identikit pictures of terrorists who blew up the Moscow metro, so now they needed to line up for an identity parade. The coach, Dubrovskiy, was released two hours later. The whereabouts of the other two detainees are unknown. Asked by the Kommersant daily where to look for the missing Qataris, the airport police said: Certainly not here, they must be at the FSB. Akhmedov's family are certain that Russian special services are about to exchange them for their operatives, who are still under arrest in Qatar. [Presenter] The Qatari embassy knows nothing about the whereabouts of the athletes and is not commenting on the possibility of exchanging the wrestlers for the Russian special service operatives. The 60th Annniversary of the 1944 Chechen and Ingush Deportation: History, Legacies, Current Crisis Friday, March 12, 2004 1 p.m. Classroom B On February 23, 1944, the Soviet NKVD began its operation to deport the entire Chechen and Ingush nations to Siberia and Central Asia. What happened during the deportation process and years of exile? Sixty years later, what is the continuing legacy of the deportations in both Chechen and Russian societies? The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, which has placed Chechnya on its Genocide Watch list, invites you to join us for a panel to discuss these questions. Speakers: Michaela Pohl, History Department, Vassar College Satsita Muradova, former lawyer with the Russian human rights organization,Memorial Georgii Derluguian, Sociology Department, Northwestern University This event is free and open to the public. It is held in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024. Metro: Smithsonian. www.committeeonconscience.org
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