Detentions of citizens who worked for the Maskhadov government continue in Chechnya
By Ruslan Isayev
CHECHNYA – In early May police in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny detained Deni Musayev, a 29-year-old local resident. He is accused of having links to the guerrillas.
But relatives say that Denis was not involved in the armed resistance. During the period between the two Chechen wars he worked for one of the Chechen law enforcement agencies, and this was really the whole extent of his collaboration with the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Shortly before this, a local resident named Viselim, who had served in the republic’s border service under the Ichkerian government, was also detained. The young man felt he had done nothing wrong, as he took no part in the armed struggle. According to family relatives, however, he was nonetheless afraid that police would arrest him sooner or later. His family’s difficult financial situation made it impossible for him to go abroad.
Viselim’s arrest has left his relatives bewildered, as Chechnya’s current law enforcement bodies employ hundreds of people who took a most active part in the two wars, and no one would dream of arresting them.(D/T)
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