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FROM THE CONFLICT ZONE BULLETIN OF HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER "MEMORIAL" Almost Five Months and the Whereabouts of Aslan Maskhadov's Relatives Remain Unknown For almost five months now the whereabouts of seven relatives of Aslan Maskhadov remain unknown. The elderly sister, two elderly brothers and nephews were kidnapped in December 2004 and driven in the unknown direction by representatives of security agencies of the Chechen Republic. Relatives suppose that the hostages have been incarcerated in Tsentaroy, at the main base of the so-called Security Service under command of Ramzan Kadyrov. None of the kidnapped Maskhadov family members participated in the political life of the Chechen Republic or in the military actions against the federal army. Life and health of the hostages, especially of elderly brothers and sister, arouse serious concern. After assassination of Aslan Maskhadov continuing prosecution of his family members is regarded by Maskhadovs as blasphemy. On May 29, a meeting of the Chechen President Alu Alkhanov with representatives of "Memorial", Svetlana Gannushkina (member of Council for Development of Institutions of Civil Society and Human Rights in Conjunction with the President of the Russian Federation) and Natal'ya Estemirova took place in the House of Government. The Prosecutor General of the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kravchenko, who attended the meeting, claimed that his office continues to search for the kidnapped. If you are concerned with the fate of the hostages, please, send your inquiries to: Office of the Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Chechen Republic, Grozny, Gagarinskaja street, 9 (a) Phone/ fax + 7 871 22 31 44 or 45 or 46 or 47 or 48 __________________________________________ International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Wickenburggasse 14/7 A-1080 Vienna Tel. +43-1-408 88 22 Fax: +43-1-408 88 22 ext. 50 Web: http://www.ihf-hr.org ______________________________________ Public March against War and Russian occupation 02.05.2005 The Peace March have reached Strasbourg and rallied at doorsteps of the Council of Europe. The Pedestrian March of Peace of Chechens from Paris to Strasbourg lasted for more than one month when they met 2000 Chechens from all over Europe at the doorsteps of European Parliament. The participants of the March of Peace and the people arriving from all countries of the world in support of the March met at 14 hours on the 27 th of April, 2005 in the University Square in Strasbourg. Speakers at The Strasbourg Rally were: The Speaker of The Chechen Parliament Saralapov DJALAUDİ, Deputy Speaker Selim Bishayev, Said Amin İbragimov, the former Chechen Minister of Transportation and the President of the International Association ´´Peace and Human Rights,´´ Mannheim Caucasus Association President Zelimhan Aslangereyev, Austria Representative of The Chechen Presidency Havaj Bisayev, Europe Representative of The Chechen Parliament Akhiyat Idigov and Mannheim Caucasus Association Honorary President Huseyin Sahan. Here are what the speakers said: ´´We want to live in our homeland as Free People and we are asking the free world to help us. We have not started the war and we are defending the independence of our country. We want peace and ask the world community to help us. Long live the independent Chechnya.´´ (Agency Caucasus) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chechen Delegation meet Terry Davis of The Council of Europe 02.05.2005 Terry Davis, the Secretary General of The Council of Europe stated that ´´the subject is in their agenda and an investigation team will be sent to the region.´´ ´´The Public March against War and Russian occupation´´ reached ´´The European Deciders´´ and asked them to ´´Stop the ongoing Genocide in Chechnya...´´ The Chechen Delegation met with Terry Davis, the Secretary General of The Council of Europe. The Organizing Committee of the March of Peace and meeting in Strasbourg stated that their priority is to draw the attention of international community to the Russian occupation in Chechnya. The Organizers further stated that they are looking for international support for their PEACE INITIATIVE. Chechen efforts were timed to the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, PACE Spring Session between 25-29 April 2005. PACE discussed the human rights violations in Chechnya and at Caucasus while thousands of Chechens rallied in front of the Parliament building in Strasbourg. Mátyás EÖRSI, the Hungarian Member of European Parliament, Member of Committee on Legal Affairs and other members of Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party joined the Rally in front of The Parliament and stated that: ´´They are against the Russian occupation of Chechnya and draw attention to the serious human rights violations in Chechnya.´´ ´´Russia must change its policy and sit at Peace Negotiations table.´´ ´´European Union, United Nations and NATO must act and stop the ongoing bloodshed.´´ The Chechen Delegation met with Terry Davis, the Secretary General of The Council of Europe. The Chechen Delegation in leadership of Said Amin İbragimov, the former Chechen Minister of Transportation and the President of the International Association ´´Peace and Human Rights´´ held a meeting with Terry Davis, the Secretary General of The Council of Europe and stated that PACE has failed in stopping the bloodshed in Chechnya. A full file of human rights violations in Chechnya is presented to Secretary General Terry Davis. Terry Davis, the Secretary General of The Council of Europe in turn stated that ´´the subject is in their agenda and an investigation team will be sent to the region.´´ (Agency Caucasus) http://www.kafkas.org.tr/indexen.php#none News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International AI Index: EUR 01/006/2005 3 May 2005 Europe and Central Asia: Human rights activists harassed, tortured and persecuted "Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels." - UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders - Threats, harassment and intimidation against those who defend and protect human rights are unacceptable. The rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly are fundamental human rights, Amnesty International said on World Press Freedom Day. The Russian Federation, Belarus, Turkmenistan and Turkey are among the countries in Europe and Central Asia with the poorest record of government harassment and persecution of people for peacefully exercising these rights. Amnesty International is concerned that the activities of human rights activists are being criminalized by the state, and that state officials are harassing, arresting and torturing them without fear of repercussions. "Officials at every level of the state apparatus, including law enforcement officials, must respect the legitimacy of the work of people who defend and protect human rights and allow them to act without hindrance or harassment. They should publicly promote respect for and protect the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly," Nicola Duckworth, Amnesty International's Director of the Europe and Central Asia Programme, said. In Belarus, the authorities do not tolerate any public criticism or dissent and have virtually monopolized the media -- critics of the regime risk imprisonment at the hands of a procuracy and judiciary under the control of the government. Amnesty International's latest report Belarus: Suppressing the last voices of public dissent presents how the authorities use controversial legislation to restrict the possibilities for non-governmental organizations, political parties, trade unions, journalists and individuals to express their personal opinion. Harassment, intimidation, excessive force, mass detentions and long-term imprisonment are increasingly employed as methods to quash any civil or political dissent. In Turkmenistan -- as documented in Amnesty International's new report Turkmenistan: The clampdown on dissent and religious freedom continues that was issued today -- anyone the authorities suspect of any form of dissent is at risk of being subjected to unfair trials, torture and ill-treatment. Their relatives are in many cases evicted from their homes, their property is confiscated and they are sacked from their jobs. Independent civil society groups find it impossible to operate and several activists have been forced into exile. The authorities control all media. They have taken a series of measures to curb access to independent sources of information within the country and to prevent critical information from reaching the international community including by cracking down on journalists who cooperate with foreign media outlets known to be critical of the authorities. The President-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov and self-proclaimed Turkmenbashi (Father of all Turkmen) dominates all aspects of life in the country. In the Russian Federation, activists trying to disseminate information about the human rights situation in the North Caucasus, as well as victims seeking justice at the European Court of Human Rights find themselves increasingly the targets of harassment and human rights abuses - several of them have even been killed. The Russian authorities appear to be tightening their control on the media to the point where information about the human rights situation in Chechnya and its neighbouring republics in the North Caucasus is stifled through censorship or self-censorship. In Turkey, despite recent legal and constitutional reforms, human rights defenders continue to be targeted for harassment and intimidation by state officials. Their activities, their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly are still restricted through a huge number of laws and regulations. Many local officials -- police chiefs, governors, prosecutors -- continue to view human rights defenders as "enemies of the state". Activists of human rights organizations, such as the Human Rights Association (IHD), have been threatened, arrested, prosecuted, tortured, abducted and killed. At least 12 IHD representatives have been killed since 1991. In most cases the killers have never been identified, and members of the Turkish security forces have been strongly implicated in some of the killings. "The work of an independent human rights movement is crucial to any society, in order to safeguard the human rights of all people and in the construction of a just society," Nicola Duckworth said. "Governments must ensure that killings, 'disappearances', torture and ill-treatment of and threats against human rights activists are thoroughly and impartially investigated and those responsible must be brought to justice." Amnesty International calls on the international community to exert pressure on the governments of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Turkmenistan and Turkey to stop the intimidation of human rights activists and to ensure that everybody can enjoy their rights to the freedoms of expression, association and assembly. Background On 16 January 2004, the mutilated body of 29-year-old Aslan Davletukaev was found near the town of Gudermes in Chechnya. He had been working with the human rights organization Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, which documents violations including "disappearances", torture and unlawful killings in the North Caucasus. Aslan Davletukaev had reportedly been detained by Russian federal forces on 9 January 2004. An investigation into his death has been opened and closed several times but nobody has yet been found responsible for his death. On 30 September 2004, the editor of the Belarusian independent weekly Birzha Informatsii, Elena Rovbetskaia was fined the equivalent of US$600 for criticizing the referendum which allowed President Lukashenka to serve more than the previous limit of two terms. In November the same year, the weekly was ordered to close down for three months for the same alleged offence. Due to the lack of independent printing houses the publication is still not available in print. In July 2004, Radio Liberty correspondent Saparmurat Ovezberdiev was forced into exile from Turkmenistan because of his work for the Turkmen Section of the radio station. He had been under close surveillance for many years and pressurized to stop his work. Members of his family have also been targeted in an attempt to silence him even after his departure. On 19 April 2005, three members of the Human Rights Association (IHD) in Turkey, Eren Keskin, Saban Dayanan and Dogan Genc, received death threats from an ultra-nationalist group called the Turkish Revenge Brigade (Turk Intikam Tugayi). This group claimed responsibility for an armed attack in 1998 on the then IHD president, Akin Birdal, in which he was critically wounded. For further information please see: Appeal Case: The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society under threat http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV0beuxZvb/ Russian Federation: Concerns over reports of "disappearances" of relatives of Aslan Maskhadov http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV1beuxZvb/ Russian Federation: Human rights group threatened by security forces http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV2beuxZvb/ Russian Federation: The Risk of Speaking Out: Attacks on Human Rights Defenders in the context of the armed conflict in Chechnya http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV3beuxZvb/ Belarus: Suppressing the last voices of peaceful dissent http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV4beuxZvb/ Belarus: Chernobyl commemorations end in large-scale arrests http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV5beuxZvb/ Turkmenistan: The clampdown on dissent and religious freedom continues http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV6beuxZvb/ Turkey: Death threats/Fear for safety http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV7beuxZvb/ Human Rights Defenders at Risk http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadtuWabgBV8beuxZvb/ ***************************************************************** You may repost this message onto other sources provided the main text is not altered in any way and both the header crediting Amnesty International and this footer remain intact. Only the list subscription message may be removed. ***************************************************************** Past and current Amnesty news services can be found at <http://www.amnesty.org/news/>. Visit <http://www.amnesty.org> for information about Amnesty International and for other AI publications. Contact amnestyis@amnesty.org if you need to get in touch with the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. Privacy policy <http://web.amnesty.org/pages/aboutai-privacy-eng> Amnesty International [no date given] Appeal Case: The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society under threat The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) is a non-governmental organization that monitors human rights violations in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus, producing daily press releases on "disappearances" and other serious human rights violations. The Society, which has its head office in Nizhnii Novgorod, and another office in the North Caucasus, also produces the Pravo-zashchita newspaper ('Rights Protection') jointly with the Nizhnii Novgorod Human Rights Society. Amnesty International is concerned by an apparent campaign of harassment and prosecution of the RCFS coordinated by the Russian authorities which seems to be in response to its work on human rights. Since 2000, when the organization was officially registered, there have been a number of cases of torture and ill-treatment, "disappearances" and alleged extrajudicial executions of members of the Society in the North Caucasus. In 2005, the campaign has extended to include a criminal investigation into alleged articles published by the organization, checks by the tax authorities and moves by the Ministry of Justice to close the organization. There has also reportedly been negative media coverage in Nizhnii Novgorod of the organization's activities and one staff member, Oksana Chelysheva, has been the subject of threatening leaflets. According to the RCFS, the criminal investigation, which has been opened by the office of the Nizhegorodskii Regional Procurator (the regional procurator for Nizhnii Novgorod and the surrounding region), relates to materials published in Pravo-zashchita and cites Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code (incitement of ethnic, racial or religious hatred or enmity). The materials under investigation include an appeal, published in the April-May 2004 edition, to the European Parliament by the late Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov calling for help in finding a peaceful settlement to the Chechen conflict and an appeal in the March 2004 edition by Aslan Maskhadov's London-based envoy Akhmed Zakaev to the Russian people not to re-elect President Putin. The criminal investigation was opened on 11 January 2005, although the RCFS only found out about it on 20 January 2005, when Federal Security Service (FSB) officers raided the organization's Nizhnii Novgorod office and seized documents and computers (see Russian Federation: Human rights group threatened by security forces, AI Index: EUR 46/001/2005). Since then, the editor-in-chief at the RCFS, Stanislav Dmitrievskii, editor Oksana Chelysheva and other colleagues in both Nizhnii Novgorod and the North Caucasus have been called in for questioning as witnesses by FSB officials in the Nizhegorodskii region and in the Shali district, Chechnya. While charges have not been formally brought against any of the staff of the RCFS, Article 282 carries a possible punishment of five years' imprisonment. Aslan Davletukaev On 16 January 2004 the mutilated body of RCFS activist Aslan Davletukaev, aged 29, was found near the town of Gudermes in Chechnya. Reportedly, he had been detained by Russian federal forces on 9 January 2004. On that day about five military vehicles had stopped at the house of the Davletukaevs at about 10.15pm. A group of 25 or 30 armed, masked men told the family they needed to check passports and conduct a search of the house. They forced Aslan Davletukaev out into the courtyard and reportedly threatened to kill him and his wife in front of their children if he refused to go with them. When Aslan Davletukaev's father asked the men if his son had committed a crime he was allegedly told "he is guilty of being Chechen". Aslan Davletukaev's eight-year-old son tried to cling to his father but was allegedly kicked away by one of the men. After about an hour the men left the house and took Aslan Davletukaev with them, reportedly driving in the direction of a military post in Shali. The family went to the military post, the local procuracy and local government administration but did not receive any reasons for Aslan Davletukaev's detention nor information as to his whereabouts. Relatives, who spoke with Amnesty International's representatives, said that when his body was found seven days later outside a deserted cafe they could scarcely identify him as he had lost all his teeth and his face was covered in bruises. Criminal investigations into his killing have been inconclusive; one that began in January 2004 was subsequently closed reportedly owing to a failure to identify the perpetrator(s). Oksana Chelysheva On 14 March 2005, threatening leaflets were distributed in the neighbourhood of Nizhnii Novgorod where RCFS editor Oksana Chelysheva lives. The leaflets were signed by the "Young Patriotic Front" (A.P. Ivanov) and labelled Oksana Chelysheva as a traitor, a supporter and a helper of "terrorist" activities carried out by Chechen fighters, and claimed that she was financed by them. The leaflet gave her home address and concluded "She deserves shame and contempt! We are ready to fight her." The office of the Nizhegorodskii Regional Procurator opened a criminal investigation on 30 March into the leaflets under Articles 129 (libel) and 130 (insult), following the submission by the RCFS of a complaint to the prosecutor. Please write politely worded letters in English, Russian or your own language, calling on the Russian authorities to: - Commit to explicitly and publicly promoting respect for human rights and to protecting human rights defenders; - Take effective action and measures to ensure that state officials at every level of the state apparatus, including law enforcement officials, respect the legitimacy of the work of human rights defenders and allow them to carry out their work without hindrance or harassment, including Stanislav Dmitrievskii, Oksana Chelysheva and all other staff at the RCFS; - Ensure that the principles contained in the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders are fully incorporated into national law and mechanisms for the protection of human rights, and are fully implemented in practice; - Work with human rights defenders and non-governmental organizations to establish an Action Plan for the implementation of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders to ensure that the rights set out in the declaration are guaranteed to human rights defenders, non-governmental organizations and other civil society actors so that they can carry out their activity without fear for their safety. Send letters regarding Aslan Davletukaev, urging the Russian authorities to: - Ensure that a thorough and impartial investigation is carried out into the killing of Aslan Davletukaev, and that any findings of such investigation is made public; - Bring anyone found responsible for the killing of Aslan Davletukaev to justice in a court of law in accordance with international standards of fair trial; - Set dates and facilitate the visits of the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, and the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial summary and arbitrary executions. Send letters regarding the case of Oksana Chelysheva, urging the Russian authorities to: - Express concern that the criminal investigation into the leaflets targeting Oksana Chelysheva reportedly currently do not adequately reflect the serious nature of the threat to her safety; - Ensure that a thorough and impartial investigation into the threats against Oksana Chelysheva is carried out and that any findings of the investigation are made public, and those responsible are brought to justice; - Condemn publicly any threats and attacks against human rights defenders by non-state actors. APPEALS TO: President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir PUTIN Kreml, Moscow, Russian Federation Fax: + 7 095 206 85 10 / 206 51 73 / 230 24 08 (if someone answers say "fax please") Email: president@gov.ru Salutation: Dear President Putin Procurator General of the Russian Federation, Vladimir USTINOV Ul. B. Dimitrovka 15a, 103793 Moscow K-31, Russian Federation Fax: + 7 095 292 8848 / 921 4186 (if someone answers say "fax please") Salutation: Dear Procurator General Russian Federation Minister of Justice, Yurii CHAIKA Ul. Vorontsovo pole, 4, 109830 Moscow, Russian Federation Fax: +7 095 916 29 03 / 209 6138 (if someone answers say "fax please") Salutation: Dear Minister http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=73E52D93C32D2D2780256FF6004225CE 3.5.2005 Chechen refugees appeal for help GEORGIA, Tbilisi (own correspondent). On 29 April refugees from Chechnya living in Georgia appealed to the international community to assist them to move to third countries. In connection with this, ten Chechen women with 15 children have for three days been picketing the office of the United Nations commission for refugees in Tbilisi. According to the participants, they are appealing to the US president George Bush, the UN general secretary Kofi Annan, and the heads of the European Union and European council. In the appeal it was stated that refugees being sent from Georgia to third countries, in particular Canada and Switzerland, were not Chechens. The authors of the appeal pointed their finger at the UN commission for human rights. It was also stated that officially there were 2,500 Chechen refugees registered in Georgia, but only 486 of these were actually Chechens. PRIMA News Agency [2005-04-29-George-03] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/5/3/32044.html http://www.gzt.ru/rub.gzt?rubric=proishestviia&id=64054900000053727 (tr. by M.L.) 03.05.2005 Mikhail Lukin Rostov-on-Don Reconnoiter officers [razvedchiki] on trial for the murder of Chechen civilians In the North-Caucasus district military court begun a renewed trial of two officers of the 46-th brigade of internal troops, accused of the murder of three inhabitants of the Chechen settlement of Lakha-Varandy that took place on 15 January 2003. In the course of the first trial, Senior Lieutenant Yevgeniy Khudyakov and Lieutenant Sergey Arakcheyev were acquitted by the jurors; however, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation abolished the sentence and sent the case for the new trial. According to materials of the criminal case, the reconnoiter group of internal troops No 3186, into which belonged the soldiers of contract service, under the command of Senior Lieutenant Yevgeny Khudyakov and Lieutenant Sergey Arakcheev carried out a special operation in the Oktryabsky district of Grozny not far from Severniy airport on 15 January 2003. According to a source of GZT in the military prosecutor's office, the day before the reconnoiter officers prayed for their killed comrades. The zachistka of locality begun as the soldiers blocked a road with their APC [BTR] and stopped a Volga car, in which was driver Shamil Yunusov with his passengers. Khudyakov ordered all of them to leave the car, after searching Yunusov and taking his 7 thousand rubles and his gold ring (later they found those in the officer's things), he ordered his subordinates to seat him in the BTR, and then he pumped several shots from his submachine gun to the wheels' and car's body. Only later at the same place was stopped a Kamaz [truck] with three inhabitants of the settlement of Lakha-Varandy: with driver Said Yangulbayev and with those workers of the Kavkaz construction firm - Abdulla Dzhambekov and Nazhmudi Khasanov. According to prosecutorship, Khudyakov, "being guided by motives of nationalistic hatred and hostility", personally took out those detained from the truck, he ordered them to lie on the ground and shot each of one at the head. Then, they pushed the truck with the corpses to the shoulder, drenched it with gasoline and set it on fire. The passports of those killed were also destroyed. In the evening on the same day, the reconnoiter officers delivered detained Volga's driver Yunusov to their unit, where while beating him up, they demanded that he would tell them about the whereabouts of fighters. After which, as is the investigation asserts, Khudyakov using his submachne gun shot three times Yunusov at his right foot. Then they took him back and they left him in the same place, from where they abducted him. In the military prosecutor's office they indicate that "for the investigation to untangle this case was possible in spite of the explicit unwillingness of No 3186 command". At the last trial those accused denied their guilt, asserting that at the moment of the tragedy, they were loacted somewhere else, and all the witnesses who were present at the murder scene harmoniously recanted their statements, still at the preliminary investigation, after stating that they were given under pressure of the military prosecutor's office. The jurors then unanimously announced that the defendants didn't commit those murders, which became the object of investigation. On 29 June 2004, the SKVO military court on the basis of this verdict acquitted Khudyakov and Arakcheyev. The military prosecutor's office appealed the sentence, after stating that in the course of jurors's selection there was infringement of the law. In the opinion of a representatives of procuratorship, the selection of jurors was carried out in 2003, and the case trial of Khudyakov-Arakcheyev began in January 2004. Thus, they assume in the procuratorship, the jurors were already incompetent to carry a verdict. Although, in the course of the first trial, the accusing prosecutor did not mention this and did not raised any objections. On 11 November 2004, the Military Judicial Board of the Supreme Court RF abolished the court sentence, and the case was send for the new trial. On Tuesday, we heard statements of one of the victim's relative - Ovkhat Dzhambekov, older brother of killed Abdulla Dzhambekov, and also the Kavkaz firm's director - Ramzan Didayev, to whom belonged the Kamaz truck, stopped by the reconnoiter group of Khudyakov and Arakcheyev. Didayev told the law court that his firm specializes in the construction work at the military towns. The driver and the workers, according to him, passed all the necessary checks from the side of control organs and had a special pass, that made possible for them to carry out some contract works on the departmental territory of the MVD and the Severnyi airport. The defendants (both are at liberty) refused to give any statements on Tuesday, after stating that they will make this after all the witnesses have been questioned. http://www.ingushetiya.ru/news/5220.html MVD of Ingushetia violates human rights [tr. by M.L.] Ingushetiya..Ru, 03.05.2005 23:54 The leader of Ingush opposition, deputy of the National Assembly of Ingushetia Musa Ozdoyev before his departure to Moscow described to our correspondent that he became a witness of the illegal methods of conducting questioning and investigation with respect to detained and arrested people, that are kept at the temporary remand center of the MVD of Ingushetia. From Ozdoyev's words, he personally associated with several prisoners, in regards to whom severe tortures were used. In particular, from detainee Gireyev (he's counted as "abducted in Nazran by some unknown persons in camouflage uniform") they demand to confess to the attempt on president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov. Gireyev's nails has been pulledout and he has damaged knee caps. He can't move. "You were sent by Allah to us! Bring to the the public the truth about this bespredel "- with tears in their eyes complained to Ozdoyev people in the custody. "I never even assumed that such things could occur in my republic. These methods produce hatred. I know that those who survived this, after being let out, will think only about the vengeance. These methods are unacceptable. If we do not end this lawful bespredel, it will be needed to fight with terrorism and extremism in the Caucasus for a long time" - stated Musa Ozdoyev. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.kavkazcenter.com/russ/content/2005/05/04/33500.shtml Ingush opposition "have discovered America". It turns out that the authorities violate human rights [passage omitted re: Ingushetiya ru] Surprise and ignorance of Ozdoyev relating to the fact that sadism and terrorism is the main method of governing both the Russian authority and their puppets at other places, appears very strange. For a period of many years in Ingushetia (to say nothing about the adjacent Chechnya), they openly brutally kill, they kidnap, they sadistically torture, they execute, badly disfigured bodies of people abducted by FSB are being found, everyone sees how they assault and burn houses together with people, who are located in them , but deputy Ozdoyev, as it turns out , did not know this. 2005-05-04 13:26:43