Mopping up operations in Gudermessky districtBy Ruslan Isayev
CHECHNYA – For the past two weeks mopping-up operations have been carried out in the Gudermessky district by Russian special services and the so-called "kadyrovites", i.e. units under command of the Moscow-backed Chechen Vice-Premier, Ramzan Kadyrov.
In the village of Engel-Yourt, located near the border with the neighbouring Dagestan, four young men were taken from their homes at dawn and arrested. One of the men, Ibragim Beskayev, was freed after two days by the efforts of a relative who works in one of the law enforcement agencies in Gudermes. Relatives claimed that Beskayev had been beaten.
The location of the other three - Ibragim Kakhidov, Ibragim Iskhadzhiyev and Khamid Suleymanov - is unknown although mediators are busy trying to get them released.
Meanwhile Ruslan Alkhanov, the Moscow-backed Interior Minister of the Chechen Republic, told the media that five guerrilla fighters under field commander Ahmet Avdorkhanov were arrested in Gudermessky. Alkhanov refused to give out their names, adding that large quantities of explosives and ammunition in their possession had been confiscated.
Translated by Mindaugas Kojelis.
(MK/E,T,B)
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