Fifteen homes of relatives of the terrorists who were killed in a gunfight in Grozny on December 4 have been destroyed, Caucasian Knot reports, citing Memorial Human Rights Center.
They confirmed earlier reports by Caucasian Knot about the burning down of houses of families of seven of the militants in Gudermes District. Earlier we reported on the destruction of the Shabanovs' home in Koshkeldy in the Gudermes District.
Other towns affected were Alpatovo in Naursky District; Geldagan in Kurchaloyevsky District; Ishkhoy-Yurt in Gudermes District and in the city of Gudermes itself, says Memorial.
In Alpatovo, the home of Imran Utsimiyev was burned down. He is the father of 18-year-old Baysangur who was among those in the Grozny attack. The family fled into hiding.
One house in Geldagan in the Kurchaloyevsky District was destroyed, although it was empty; the family had fled already last year.
Ramzan Kadyrov with his private pro Russian militia and uniform insignia of militia of special purpose of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic with Ahmad Kadyrov's name on it
According to villagers, Sultan's son Adam was long associated with members of the "unlawful armed formations," as authorities call the militant groups. In September 2010, the police already burned down the Vakhayev's house. After that, the family built a new one, said Memorial.
In another incident in Ishkhoy-Yurt, on the night of December 20, police razed the empty home of Masara Vadalova. One of her sons, Aslambek, had joined the armed underground in the first Chechen war.
In Gudermes, the home of Ruslan Magomadov was destroyed. His son was among those killed in the December 4 attack in Grozny. The family fled afterwards.
The human rights activists point out that it is police taking part in the destruction of homes, not unidentified arsonists. They are following orders issued by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who publicly called for the burning down of the homes of any relatives of those in the December 4 attacks. It looks as if in their eagerness to comply, police have gone further and targeted any house they can find related to any insurgency in the last decade.
While at his year-end press conference, Putin said that no one, even the head of Chechnya could commit extrajudicial actions of this type, they have continued because Putin has left the management of Chechnya to Kadyrov, and explained away his excesses by saying they are understandable given that he lost his comrades in the war on terrorism.
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