| Invaders shelled
Chechen village of Mairtup One invader and one pro-Russian police officer were killed in Shali District of Chechnya in a blast of a handmade mine. Radio Liberty reported two women were killed when an artillery shell exploded during the shelling that the invaders were conducting on the village of Mairtup, Kurchaloi District. The village residents claim that their houses were shelled by the invaders. Invaders still continue kidnapping in Chechnya The pro-Russian structure estimated that over the first half of 2003, 267 people have been declared missing in the Republic. «A total of 267 people were abducted in the first half of 2003. Five of these crimes have already been solved», the source reported. He also said that a total of 564 people went missing in Chechnya in 2002. Earlier it was reported that a single database containing the names of people who were killed or went missing in Chechnya will be created in the near future. Chechen women keep picketing It is the third day since several dozens of women from Vedeno District have been continuing to picket the entrance on the premises of the puppet structures complex. The protesters are demanding that residents of the village of Mahkety: Vakha Hochayev, Hasan Elbuzdukayev and Sultan Abubakarov are released. Early in the morning on August 15 these three men were taken away by unknown armed men in camouflage uniforms. Interfax received this information from deputy chief of the puppet structures Ahmed Dakayev. On the first day of the picket the representatives of the protesters were allegedly received by the secretary of the so-called security council Rudnik Dudayev. But still, they did not stop rallying because the result has not been achieved. On Wednesday the delegation of the picketers was received by the head of gang formations Akhmad Kadyrov. The protesters were informed that all of the three men had been released. However, the women stated that they would leave only after the information is verified. Night raids in Jokhar Both Chechen and Western sources reported that last night a demonstrative intimidation raid was conducted in Jokhar, for instance in Zavodskoy and in some other districts of the city. Armed men in military uniforms and with masks on were breaking into homes, beating the residents and screaming that they would kill them unless they vote at the so-called «presidential elections» for Akhmad Kadyrov. Kadyrov himself already had a chance to call that action «a provocation». Kavkaz-Center News - 2003-08-21 03:00:22 |