| Caucasus Times 20 August 2003 A terrible find nearby Gikalo village of Chechnya On August 16, in the vicinity of Gikalo village of Groznensky district the locals have reportedly discovered a corpse blown to bits. The terrible find casually had been found by a local tractor driver working in the field. "The bits of the human body were scattered a few dozens meters range," told Ismail Gamayev, the resident of Gikalo. "We had to collect the body literally by bits. One plastic bag was enough to put all bits, everything that remained of a human being". The villagers believe the dead man became a victim of the extrajudicial execution perpetrated by Russian special task forces agents, the so-called "Death Squadrons". "It certainly has all fingerprints of Russian special task forces, the "Death Squadrons" what we call them," said a 62-year-old inhabitant Ozdemir Musayev. "If they get a man abducted, there is no chance for him to remain alive. At first they subject the victim to atrocious tortures, then either dead or alive, they blow the poor fellow up to bits to make it impossible to identify him and erase all evidence of crime. Last year my nephew had been killed in the same way. We managed to find just a few bits of his body, parts of a foot and hand". The police department detectives team has arrived to the site to conduct field investigation. "The victim was allegedly killed by an explosive device, apparently by a hand-grenade F-1," a policeman reported. "I think it's far soon to blame the Russian servicemen, since there was no eyewitness of the crime. Case is open, the investigation is being conducted, but I think, there is absolutely no chance to find the perpetrators of this crime". Ruslan Adayev, Chechnya Caucasus Times |