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The Los Angeles Times August 29, 2003

Russia's Chechnya Leader Says Death Squads Operate

By David Holley, Times Staff Writer


MOSCOW — In a sharp preelection turnabout, the Kremlin-appointed head
of Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya declared Thursday that
death squads associated with security forces were seeking to prolong
the conflict through abductions and terror.

"People continue to go missing in Chechnya. They are taken away in
the middle of the night. Their bodies are not found and they are
never seen again," Akhmad Kadyrov, the republic's acting president,
said in a letter he released to reporters in Grozny, the Chechen
capital.

In the letter, addressed to Russia's top law enforcement officials,
Kadyrov added: "I have no doubts that those who are taking people
away at night are the so-called third force, the party of supporters
of a horrible war. Through their crimes, they maintain tension in the
republic, and their hands are stained with the blood of innocent
people."

The force is made up of "kidnappers in armored vehicles," he
said. "They are a death squad."

Human rights critics of Moscow's policies in the Caucasus republic
have long complained of the operation of death squads, and many
critics of the war believe it continues in part because some on the
Russian side do not want to see the conflict settled — presumably
because they are profiting from it through various forms of
corruption. But to have Moscow's handpicked strongman suddenly appear
to endorse those views was remarkable.

Russian rights advocates described Kadyrov's declaration as a belated
recognition of the squads' existence and an obvious campaign ploy
aimed at the Oct. 5 Chechen presidential election, in which he is
considered a leading candidate.

The Kremlin's previously firm public support for Kadyrov has weakened
in recent weeks. It was not clear whether his letter marked a form of
lashing back at Moscow and distancing himself from its leaders.

It might instead be a maneuver undertaken with Moscow's permission in
a bid to shore up his waning popularity.

Also, Kadyrov has himself been accused of running death squads, and
the letter has the effect of pointing the finger elsewhere.

By official count, 267 people were abducted in Chechnya in the first
six months of this year, with only five cases solved, said Movsar
Khamidov, Chechnya's first deputy prime minister, in a statement to
the Russian news agency Interfax.

In his letter, Kadyrov called on the federal government to create a
commission to search for the missing and punish the death squad
members. "The main thing is that we should tell the people of
Chechnya the truth and save them from night terror," he said.

Death squads in Chechnya "are not a myth at all," said Tatyana I.
Kasatkina, head of the human rights group Memorial. "They are a very
horrible reality. But there is confusion as to who stands behind
these squads. Some believe it is the federal troops. Some accuse
Kadyrov's men of actually acting as death squads. So I am sure
Kadyrov spoke about them only out of political necessity He has to do
and say something unusual to whitewash his dark image."

Anna Politkovskaya, a political analyst and Chechnya specialist for
the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, said that death squads "have been
spreading terror through the republic for the last three years" but
that Kadyrov "until now bluntly and doggedly denied their presence
and sinister role."

Chechens exercised self-rule after defeating Russian troops in a 1994-
96 war, but Russian forces returned in 1999 and have been fighting
pro-independence guerrillas since.

Courts based on Muslim religious law functioned in the republic
during its period of self-rule. At the time, Kadyrov was Chechnya's
top religious leader. Only since 2000 has he been more associated
with pro-Russian policies than with Chechnya's independence struggle,
and many observers in Moscow say the Kremlin cannot trust him to
remain on its side.

The squads in Chechnya were originally formed by Russian military
intelligence to kill rebels and criminals without taking them to
trial, Politkovskaya said.

"Now for at least a year, many people in Chechnya believe that
Kadyrov's security force is responsible for a lot of deaths and
kidnappings," she said. "They take advantage of the situation in the
republic to settle their scores of all kinds with Kadyrov's enemies
or political opponents."

It is obvious that Kadyrov's letter was not prompted by new
information, Politkovskaya said.

"What could have happened overnight to become an eye-opener for him?"
she said. "This statement is nothing but an awkward and all too
obvious campaign move He is quite panicky now, and he is dead worried
that the Kremlin might ditch him."

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Times staff writer Sergei L. Loiko contributed to this report.
    • Gość: szaszlyk Kadirov nagle sie obudzil ????? IP: *.dialup.zonnet.nl 30.08.03, 23:47
      NIE ! Kadirov mysli ze zyska glosy w "wyborach" !!!
      Ale Kadirov sie myli !
      Bo Kadirowa nawet Kreml juz olal....
      • Gość: grg Re: Kadirov nagle sie obudzil ????? IP: *.artcom.pl / 192.168.32.* 31.08.03, 16:10
        Rosjanie pokazuja z powrotem na niego.

        Russian military hits back at pro-Moscow Chechen leader over kidnap claims
        MOSCOW (AFP) Aug 29, 2003

        A senior Russian military officer Friday branded as a pre-electoral
        gimmick accusations by the pro-Moscow Chechen chief administrator Akhmad
        Kadyrov of abuses by federal troops in the breakaway republic.
        "Kadyrov's clear allusions to kidnappings at night by federal troops,
        driving around in armoured personnel carriers, has more to do with
        pre-electoral politicking than reality," Vladimir Plotnikov, who
        commands a paratrooper unit in Chechnya, told the Interfax news agency.

        Kadyrov, a former mufti who has ruled the troubled republic for more
        than three years as head of the pro-Russian administration, is
        officially the favourite to win an October 5 presidential poll organised
        by the Kremlin.

        But he is hugely unpopular in Chechnya, where the war-weary population
        believe he is a corrupt figure who has done nothing to end the violence.

        Asserting that federal troops are only authorised to move around
        Chechnya in the day, Plotnikov said that only Chechen policemen under
        military command are supposed to circulate at night.

        "In every military command post, there is a unit of Chechen police. Most
        wear Russian military uniforms. It's among them that you should be
        looking for 'renegade soldiers.'"

        In a letter to top military commanders Wednesday, Kadyrov called for
        action to stop disappearances.
        • Gość: szaszlyk Re: Kadirov nagle sie obudzil ????? IP: *.dialup.zonnet.nl 31.08.03, 16:17
          It wasn't me....:)
          Jeden zwala na drugiego...
          • Gość: grg relacja Amerykanki IP: *.artcom.pl / 192.168.32.* 31.08.03, 19:06
            Udalo sie jej przedostac tam w przebraniu Czeczenki, wlasnie wrocila:

            "Not a single night goes by without someone disappearing. Masked men come into
            homes and take people away," one resident told me. I have read many reports by
            Russian and international human rights organizations detailing forced
            disappearances, torture, rape, and executions
          • Gość: grg Podobno jednak "federal forces" IP: *.artcom.pl / 192.168.32.* 31.08.03, 21:42
            Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a respected Russian human rights lawyer, said there were
            three fighting groups in Chechnya, all of them much feared by
            the civilian population. One is made up of the rebel fighters for secession.
            They are intent on throwing back the 'invading' Russian army
            for Islam and revenge. Of these, about a third are simple bandits. The second
            is made up of men loyal to the Kremlin-installed
            administrator of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov. The third element is the Russian
            federal forces, "a significant majority of whom also act as bandits".
            "I can't even tell them all apart," said Alexeyeva, who has been to Chechnya
            three times.
            "They're all in ski masks, and when they attack they all carry the exact same
            Kalashnikovs. The populace fears the federal forces most of
            all, if only because there are more of them.
            "The federal forces used to conduct mopping-up operations. They would surround
            a village and go house-to-house, demanding documents.
            "Often they would take with them many of the village men, even male children,
            as suspected combatants. Many of the detained would never
            return. Some returned after having been beaten. Others turned up only as
            corpses, disfigured by torture.
            "They don't surround villages anymore, but every night federal soldiers come to
            homes, and take away the young men and old men. And they
            are disappeared, just as before."
            • Gość: szaszlyk Re: Podobno jednak 'federal forces' IP: *.dialup.zonnet.nl 31.08.03, 21:46
              Czyli wszystko w normie....
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