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Oct 13 2004 2:44PM
278 kidnapped in Chechnya in 2004 - human rights official
MOSCOW. Oct 13 (Interfax) - Since the beginning of 2004, 278 residents have been kidnapped in Chechnya. One hundred and six of them have been freed, 20 were found dead and 122 are still missing,
spokesman for the Memorial human rights center Dmitry Grushkin told Interfax on Wednesday.
He said 236 residents have been killed in Chechnya this year under various circumstances, among them 98 civilians, 81 representatives of law enforcement agencies, eight officials and 22 rebels. Twenty seven people killed in Chechnya have not been identified.
The Chechen authorities say they attach priority importance to the solution of the kidnapping problem.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?me ... e=10711030
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Chechen warlords plan to flee abroad
October 12, 2004 Posted: 08:35 Moscow time (04:35 GMT)
Chechen rebel leaders fear for their lives. They are now more cautious, and they plan to flee abroad, sources in the regional command center for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus told RBC.
This information was obtained from detained fighters. According to intelligence services, some warlords are waiting until federal troops complete the current stage of their counter-terrorist operation in the republic’s mountainous and forest area, and are preparing to flee outside Russia.
Field commander Doka Umarov does not take part in rebel attacks now, for fear of being arrested. With a small group of militants, he migrates in the south of the republic, stopping at night in different locations. He keeps away from villages and avoids meeting with locals. The members of Umarov’s gang are stocking up on food.
Over the past two weeks, special forces of the Russian Interior Ministry and the Defense Ministry have been carrying out a large scale operation against a large gang of militants, operating in the forest area of eastern Chechnya. Seven bandits were seized and killed in the course of the operation, including two Arab mercenaries.
The identity of one of them has been established – Khalil Rudvan, a Canadian Afro-American. According to some reports, Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was among those militants who escaped.
The activity of Chechen fighters has not subsided. Over the past three days alone, they have carried out more than 10 terrorist attacks, in which three servicemen were killed.
http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews ... l?nd=45854
He leído que la familiares del canadiense muerto niegan que su hijo fuese un combatiente y que pensaban que este se encontraba visitando a la familia en Arabía Saudita ...
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Landmine Kills 2 in Chechnya
11/10/2004 02:47
Russian officials say a landmine planted on a road in the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya has killed a Russian army officer and his driver, and wounded at least two others riding in the vehicle.
Interior Ministry officials say the blast occurred Saturday in the Shali district in southeastern Chechnya.
They say the vehicle was carrying members of a compensation commission on their way to a town Duba-Yurt to assess damage done to houses by military operations.
Russian news reports say an investigation has been launched to find those responsible for the attack.
http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=10671
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Three Chechen rebels killed, 8 civilians wounded near Chechnya: official
MOSCOW, Oct 10 (AFP) - Three Chechen separatist fighters were killed and eight civilians, including five children, were wounded Sunday in Ingushetia, a region bordering Chechnya, an Ingush interior ministry official told RIA-Novosti.
Two members of Russian special forces were also wounded in the course of the operation, the unidentified official added.
The three militants were killed in Ingushetia's main city Nazran and were believed to have been under the command of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who has claimed responsibility for the Beslan hostage crisis last month, ministry officials told the Russian news agencies.
Five children and three women were wounded in the shootout, which erupted as Russian forces tried to arrest the three Chechen rebels in a Nazran house, the ministry official quoted by RIA-Novosti said.
"Civilians found themselves in the shootout zone," the official said.
"We have established that three women and five children have been wounded. They have all been hospitalized in the city's hospital," he added.
Basayev has claimed responsibility for the three-day hostage taking last month at a school in Beslan, southern Russia, in which at least 339 people died, more than half of them children.
One of the fighters killed Sunday, identified as Magomet Khashiyev, took part in deadly Chechen rebel raids into Ingushetia last June, the ministry official quoted by RIA-Novosti said.
In coordinated raids overnight June 22, several hundred rebels attacked government buildings and police checkpoints in Ingushetia, killing 88 people -- mostly law enforcement officials -- before escaping at dawn. Two rebels were also reported killed.
Both Basayev and Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov claimed responsibility for the attacks.
After being forced by rebels to withdraw from Chechnya after a war in 1994-96, Russia sent troops in again in October 1999 for what was initially presented as a lightning-strike anti-terror operation, but has been going on for five years.
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpres ... p?ID=30350
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