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Who will protect human rights activists?
As reported on Tuesday August 11 in the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation in the Chechen Republic, "today at 04:00 Moscow time, the bodies of Alik Dzhabrailov and Zarema Sadulaeva with multiple wounds were discovered in the territory of the village of Chernorechye." "The bodies were in the trunk of the VAZ -2107 car belonging to the murdered. The car stood on Mansurov Street, at the house of 6 meters from the entrance to the Republican Rehabilitation Center," the SCP specified.
The non-governmental organization "Save the generation" provides assistance to young people who suffered from hostilities in Chechnya and children with disabilities. The Kommersant newspaper recalls that in 2005, Murad Muradov, one of the leaders of this organization, was killed and then killed.
The director of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau, Alexander Brod, said on Tuesday that the Public Chamber (OP) of the Russian Federation is preparing an offer to hold a special emergency meeting with representatives of the prosecutor's office, police, authorized by the presidential representative in the Southern Federal District and discuss the situation with the murders of human rights activists in the North Caucasus .
Vladimir Kara-Murza: President Dmitry Medvedev demanded from the Prosecutor General to investigate and reveal the murder of the famous human rights activist Zarema Sadulaeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov. At the same time, he ordered the authorities of the Chechen Republic to provide maximum assistance to federal bodies. An employee of the Chechen non -governmental organization “Save the Generation” of Zarem Sadualev and her husband were found dead at 4 a.m. in the village of Chernorechye, Zavodsky District Grozny. The bodies of victims with traces of many firearms were in the trunk of their car. With a sharp condemnation of the murder of Sadulaeva and her husband, the Foreign Ministry of France also made. The head of the department Bernard Kushner noted that attacks on human rights defenders in Chechnya are beginning to acquire a systemic character. France calls on the Russian authorities to make every effort so that the killers are found and punish. The crime was also condemned by the German Foreign Ministry, the European Commission and the PACE Chapter. Everyone requires a speedy investigation of the murder and punishment of the perpetrators. We analyze a series of abductions and murders of Chechen human rights activists, together with a member of the board of the Human Rights Society "Memorial" Alexander Cherkasov. How do you explain the increase in cruelty contrary to official statements about the full control of the situation in the republic?
Alexander Cherkasov: So, after all, the growth of cruelty did not begin today. Yes, they killed our Natasha Estemirov, killed Zarem
Sadulaev and Umar Dzhabrailov, but if you look at how many people were abducted this year ... Let's see how it changed from year to year: 2006, according to our data, 187 people, in 2007 a sharp decline - 35 people, in 2008 - 42 people and in the first months of 2009 more than 70, and then we were forced to stop our systematic work in the Chechen Republic. The situation is returning to what was several years ago. But people die for a reason. If the murder of Natasha Estemirova is explained by what work she had recently led, and irritation against her the authorities of the Chechen Republic has not been hidden, then what was killed by Zarem Sadulaev and Umar Dzhabrailov, I can’t put his mind-this is some kind of madness.For which they killed Zarem Sadulaev and Umar Dzhabrailov, I can’t put an mind-this is some kind of madness
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Today, Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov outlined his version of what happened, let's listen to what he said.
Ramzan Kadyrov: I do not know the reason why they did it, killed. The only one that the husband of this woman, who led the organization “Save the Generation”, he would be convicted, he was in prison and was released ahead of schedule. This is a challenge to the authorities. The one who committed wants a split in society and someone does not like stability in the republic. We will conduct an investigation, I personally took control. This primarily hurts me as a Garanata of the Constitution, I am sure we will find criminals and punish them.
Vladimir Kara-Murza: How believ is the version of blood feud proposed by Kadyrov?
Alexander Cherkasov: Generally speaking, a significant part of the Chechen elite, including Ramzan Kadyrov himself, were once militants, and something there was a rampant of blood feud is not visible now. Secondly, let's recall the circumstances of this abduction and murder. This did not spontaneously happen, and the killers did not hide. The other day they entered the office of one of the Chechen
You see, the killers did not hide, they did not hide their faces, they did not hide their actions, such a developed operation. What is it like?Non -governmental organizations tried to go to the “saving generation”: they say, give us the coordinates of this organization, I have a neighbor disabled here, he needs to do a prosthesis. They say to him: if a neighbor is disabled, he needs a prosthesis, leave a neighbor’s phone, we will call him if we find out. Oh, I forgot what my neighbor’s neighbor. Strange? Strange. Yesterday, at 12 o’clock, two people in civilian clothes entered the office of the “Savior Generation” organization, they asked: where they make a prosthesis, are they paying for the manufacture of a prosthesis? The organization was largely engaged in the rehabilitation of the victims of the war, victims of the Ministry of Economics, in particular. No, they say, we are not doing this now, there is no money, unfortunately. Yes, it turned out that the leader would come later, to two hours. Okay, we will come. And they came, these two in civilian clothes, and with them there are three more in black and weapons and asked Zarem to proceed with them, and at the same time Umar. Note, searched for Zarem, not Umar. They asked to proceed with them and even said that here is our phone, if something - call if something would be disturbed. Zarem and Umar left with them. I note: the aliens did not call the power structure to which they belonged, they said - “we are from the city”, and all, indicating belonging to the power structures of the republic. Then they arrived again, took the cell phones of the taken people and took the car of Umar, the very one, in the trunk of which the next morning they found their bodies at 4 hours. You see, the killers did not hide, they did not hide their faces, they did not hide their actions, such a developed operation. What is it like? Most of all, this is similar to the actions of power structures. I note that the abductions of people in Chechnya all these last almost ten years have been engaged in power structures. First federal, and then local, during the case of the case of the conflict. So, if anyone wanted to carry out blood feud in such a complex way, I doubt it - this is some kind of fiction.
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Julia Latynina, the observer of Novaya Gazeta and the Echo of Moscow radio station, also considers the picture of the tragedy obvious.
Julia Latynina: At first they killed Natalia Estemirova, then Kadyrov said that she had no honor, no dignity, or conscience. The day after these words, Kadyrov is killed by two more human rights activists, killing without hiding at all, they come to the office with a five of them, come by car, the number of which was remembered, then they return again, take the cell phone and the victim’s car, and they find corpses in this machine. The Chechen authorities say: and you prove that we are. It is clear that no one will prove anything while this power. But what's the matter - here it is not necessary to prove anything, everything is obvious.
The full transcript of the “City of Time” program with Vladimir Kara-Murza will appear on the site in the coming hours.