‘Russia running death squads in Caucasus’
“We can describe their method as ‘death squads’. We shouldn’t be afraid of using this term because they kill civilians and push the Caucasus toward war,” prominent activist Lev Ponomaryov, who heads the organisaton For Human Rights, told journalists in Moscow.
“The recent events in the North Caucasus show that the policy of the Russian authorities is at a dead end.”
Russian rights group Memorial, which tracks kidnappings in the turbulent Caucasus, called Wednesday’s press conference to raise alarm over the rise this year in such cases, which the group blames on federal security forces.
“The death squads are an illegal method... Since 2000, Memorial has been tracking such methods: illegal prisons, torture and extra-judicial executions,” said Memorial’s Alexander Cherkasov.
According to their tally, 79 people were victims of kidnapping so far in 2009 in Chechnya, the site of two bloody separatist wars after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. More
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