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EDICOLA / KIOSK | LADINBolzano/Bozen, Göttingen, 20. June 2006
An urgent call for help reached the Society for Threatened
Peoples (GfbV) on Tuesday from Chechnya. "On 17th June my
relative Timur Gaev was abducted in the town of Urus-Martan. He
was standing at a bus-stop when Russian security forces came and
took him away. He is 27 years old, the father of two children. He
is accused of being the 'Emir of the Jaamat Grosny'", reported
the human rights defender and bearer of the Lev Kopelev Prize,
Zainap Gashayeva on the telephone to the GfbV. "Timur Gaev was
tortured with truncheons and pipes and beaten. To prevent him
dying at once the perpetrators themselves took him to a hospital.
There he is watched over right round the clock. He did not take
part in the fighting in either the first or the second Chechnyan
war and is completely innocent." Gashayeva is afraid that her
relative will be killed.
In the days before and after the politically motivated murder of
the Chechen leader Abdul Chalim Sadulaev last Saturday a large
number of so-called cleansing operations were registered
throughout Chechnya, reported Gashayeva. On Friday already the
GfbV was informed by the human rights defender Imran Eshiev that
five young men from the town of Sershen Yurt in the region of
Shali had been abducted: the brothers Ilias (23) and Islam (21)
Chartsuev, their cousin Abdul Chartsuev (20), Ashada Dedigov (20)
and Islam Suleimanov (20). Units of Ramzan Kadyrov's forces came
to the village in ten military vehicles. When the mothers of the
victims tried to protect their sons, the men in battle-dress beat
and threatened them.
The GfbV accuses the "Prime Minister" Kadyrov, who was planted
there by the Russians, of being responsible for many war crimes.
His units are said to have been involved in the murder of
Sadulaev, who was the successor to the last freely elected
Chechen president, Aslan Mashadov.