The human rights activists and the Chechen authorities do not converge the figures of the stolen in the republic

According to the Memorial human rights organization, in 2005, 317 residents were stolen on the territory of Chechnya, New Izvestia writes. Of these, 153 were missing, another 126 people were released, 23 were found killed, 15 are under investigation. And on the eve of the representative of the "Memorial" Dmitry Grushkin brought data for 2006: since the beginning of the year, 30 residents of the republic have been killed, and 45 people were stolen. “Of this number, 21 people were released, three were found killed, 13 people were missing. Eight more people who were stolen are currently under investigation,” the human rights activist said. Human rights activists also argue that during the second Chechen campaign, which began in 1999, from 3 to 5 thousand people were stolen in the republic.

However, Grozny believes that the information about the abductions of people in Chechnya, which lead human rights defenders, are overstated. The President of Chechnya, ALU Alkhanov, on the eve of a meeting with the UN delegation, said: "Unfortunately, the problem of abduction of people has not been completely resolved, but the registered facts of abductions have decreased many times." According to the President of the Republic, since the beginning of the year, 14 residents have been stolen in Chechnya. The reception of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ruslan Alkhanov reported that at present there are no trends to increase the loss of people in Chechnya.

Prime Ministers of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov proposed his solution to the problem yesterday. He believes that in search of abducted and missing people it is necessary to use the officers of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the internal troops of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs and public organizations of the republic.

“We are dealing with the“ leaky of the conflict ”,” says Alexander Cherkasov, an employee of the Memorial human rights center. “The powers are transferred to Chechen power structures, including power, formed from ethnic Chechens. That is, the search for separatists are engaged in structures formed from local residents: they know all the people living there. They exert pressure on the militants, they exert pressure on the militants, Forcing to give up through their relatives. " According to the human rights activist, this brought success in some ways. But at the same time, Cherkasov warns about the danger if the situation in the republic with people's abductions will not change. “This system, in which thousands of people disappeared, it largely gave rise to the terror that continues in the North Caucasus,” the human rights activist claims. “Relatives of the disappeared represent the mobilization base for the organizers of the terror. It is easier for a person to explain the need to participate in terror if he has a motive for personal revenge. Among the participants in the Beslan and Nord-Oste, there were just such people. The result is a self -reproducing system when the so -called counter -terror creates a new wave of terror. "

At the same time, people who were captured, according to the human rights activist, are not eager to share information with someone: neither with the prosecutor’s office, nor with his colleagues. “Therefore, it turns out that, according to official figures, there are not many disappeared this year,” says Cherkasov.

In turn, Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov believes that not all of the missing are actually such. “Among the abducted people, there are those who went to the mountains or went abroad on fake passports,” he believes. “The relatives of these people specifically apply to law enforcement agencies in order to hide them.”