Two Turkish girls were killed in the Krasnodar region

On December 26, in the village of Russkoe, Krasnodar Territory, two Meskhetian Turkish girls were killed.

Sisters Narmina (26 years old) and Nargilya (19 years old) Lomanovs were participants in the program for the resettlement of Meskhetian Turks in the United States. A neighbor, approaching their house and shouting nationalist and xenophobic appeals, took out a hunting rifle hidden under his clothes and shot the girls at close range. The elder sister of the girls became a witness to the crime.

Law enforcement agencies are considering two versions of the crime, and both are domestic, Novye Izvestiya writes on January 13, 2005. “We have no reason to look for nationalist motives in this crime ,” Nikolai Pupynin, the prosecutor of the Krymsky district, told Novye Izvestia. “ To the arrested Nikolai Drozdov charged under article 105 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "Murder of two persons". The main version of the investigation is domestic. ... Now, as part of the investigation, examinations are being carried out, including psychiatric ones. "

However, Novorossiysk human rights activists and many witnesses believe that the murder was committed on ethnic grounds. "The investigation is trying to shift some of the blame onto the victims themselves, as is usually the case when Meskhetian Turks become victims of a crime in the Kuban ," Tamara Karasteleva told a Novye Izvestiya correspondent.

According to the HRC "Memorial", over the past 15 years not a single crime against the Meskhetian Turks has been brought to trial. Earlier, "Memorial" called what is happening in the Krasnodar Territory ethnic cleansing - we are talking about nationalism, supported by the regional authorities and Governor Tkachev personally.

Sources

• Two Turkish women were killed in the Krasnodar Territory // Polit.ru. 2004. December 27.
• Perov S. "He went to kill" // Novye Izvestia. 2005. January 13.