Militants were forbidden to bury, but not forbidden to buy

In Chechnya, on the initiative of the local spiritual department, Muslims were forbidden to bury militants according to Islamic customs. Human rights activists say: it is not so easy to bury militants at all - the bodies of the dead relatives have to buy from the security forces.

The Mufti of Chechnya Sultan Mirzaev explained to Izvestia that the initiative not to bury militants according to Islamic traditions received the support of the authorities and should help in the fight against terrorism. In the neighboring regions, meanwhile, this undertaking was not supported. So, for example, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov spoke out against such a prevention in his blog . With such measures, terrorism will be even more exposed, he predicts.

To bury, you need to redeem

Muslims need to be buried as religion prescribes, the official representative of the spiritual department of Muslims Dagestan Magomedrasul Omarov is sure.

“Any person must be buried according to his religious ideas. If he is a Christian - according to the Christian, a Muslim - according to Muslim. And he is a militant or not, because it is still necessary to establish,” says Omarov.

The chairman of the Dagestan organization "human rights" Gulnara Rustamova agrees with Omarov. “What is there to discuss about the funeral when the bodies themselves are not given to relatives,” Rustamova is indignant. “The relatives of the dead, suspected of participating in illegal armed groups, have to be on duty for hours at the morgues. But the bodies are not so simple. Sometimes you have to buy them out. It seems that you have collected all the documents for a corpse, and the investigators did not say it directly. They requested - from ten thousand to a million.

Relatives of the dead are faced with bureaucratic wires, the human rights activist says: “They are given a whole list of documents that need to be collected to pick up the corpse. These certificates are also worth the money, but if you collect them, then this is not a guarantee for issuing the body. When my sister Dinar was killed in a special project, I collected documents, but my body was simply not issued. According to the Muslim customs of the deceased for the next day, the next day Buried.

At the morgue, when the bodies of the killed alleged militants receive there, a police car will always be on duty, Rustamova told: "Relatives themselves are forced to offer money to investigators to give the body. And if they manage to pick up the corpse without any payments, then the police do not let the car with the body.

A corpse for a million

On the terms of anonymity, the Chechen human rights activist told Publicpost that the militants' relatives were leaving at least a million rubles to redeem their bodies: “But the militants have not been buried in official cemeteries before. There are many unregistered Wahhabi cemeteries in the republic. There they will bury a lot of money from a million rubles from a million rubles.”

The statements that investigators are trading by corpses were never found confirmation, assured Rusul Temirbekov, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan: “Only the bodies of terrorists are not issued under Russian legislation. And regarding the killed alleged militants, the investigators send requests to different instances - the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB. At least a week is spent on the establishment of the dead. What human rights activists say - that the bodies supposedly redeemed from law enforcement officers - has never been identified. "

Such a practice of handling the corpses of militants can cause some part of the population to be sympathetic to terrorists, Svetlana Isaeva is sure, the head of the Dagestan Mother organization for human rights: “In the republic, for example, in recent days, a video has been widespread, where the military dumps the body killed during the last special operation in the Khasavyurt district. their innocence, such a mockery of corpses, of course, will cause the convictions of security forces and sympathy for the militants.

Meanwhile, a number of extremist sites have published a response of illegal armed groups to the initiative of the Chechen authorities. According to the militants, for a Muslim, the main thing is the soul, not the body.