The protest action of the residents of Alkhazurovo

In the night on August 7 Russian troops abducted a local resident in the settlement of Alkhazurovo in the Urus-Martan district. Protesting against the arbitrariness of the Russian military residents of Alkhazurovo blocked the motor way near the village and stopped the traffic for several hours on the high-way Rostov-Baku demanding to find and release the detainee.

In the second half of the day representatives of the prosecutor's office and the local administration arrived. They tried to persuade the protestors to leave promising that the abducted young man would shortly be released. In case the villager is not released within the next several days the residents of Alkhazurovo are going to stage mass protest actions.

- We have no other way out but to lie on this high-way and die together. We are tired of living in a constant expectation of new atrocities from the side of the military and force structures which are as cruel. We are tired of lying authorities of different levels, - the protesters say expressing their readiness to proceed within the framework of civil disobedience.


[14.08.2003 6:55] The Chechen Times