| Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Dagestan faced new rebel attacks and instability |
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| Written by Nohcho |
| Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:06 |
 Shootouts between freedom fighters and pro-Russian so-called "militia" and other violent incidents have been reported across the North Caucasus this week.Today, Pro-Russian "militia" in Dagestan became literally crazy. Russian so-called "OMON" and pro-Russian "militia" are shooting in the air. In some of the regions they even used special gas. People say that coming out in the morning for elections, they have found electoral places closed and controlled by millitary pupper forces. Most of the civilians in Dagestan say the reason is that the workers scare to come out and work on that day. Electoral regions in Magal (an old region of Derbent) where most of the population are Azerbaijanians are closed and surrounded by pro-Russian occupants. As one of the civilians said: "they allow to get in only those who would like to vote for someone called Kaziakhmed; and you have to use special signal which we don't know". And the other added: "We have to speak out for free elections, and even this goes to the end, because first we have to deal with crime and instability so that people will go out and in safely. Only then we can think of some elections. Before stability, I don't think that elections are possible". A car blew up in Nazran, Ingushetia today, killing its driver or so-called "militia" member. Investigators believe an explosive device was attached to the bottom of the vehicle, although they do not rule out that the bomb was in the passenger compartment. Also today, Ilyas Dugov, press secretary of the Ingush branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB), announced that a rebel leader, Ruslan Bartykhoev, was killed in an operation in the village of Novy Redant. On October 7, three members of Bartykhoev’s group, Adam Yevloev, Bekkhan Mamsurov and Artur Murzabekov, were captured in Karabulak along with grenades and a detonator made out of a cell phone. In addition, a suspected rebel identified as Movsar Merzhoev was killed today in an operation in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia’s Sunzha district. Merzhoev reportedly opened fire on police who were attempting to detain him, and was shot and killed by return fire (ITAR-TASS, October 9). The Associated Press today quoted Dagestan Interior puppet-Ministry spokesman Mark Tolchinsky as saying that a bomb went off in a park in the town of Derbent overnight, killing a man police believe had planned to use it in an attack (AP, October 9). Yesterday (October 8), Amir of the Makhachkala jamaat, Gadzhimurad Kamalutdinov, was killed together with his wife during a terrorist operation by Russian occupants in the village of Kirovaul in Dagestan’s Kizylurt district. A Criminal Federal Security Service (FSB) said the couple opened fire on police during a passport check at a private home in Kirovaul, after which FSB spetsnaz surrounded the home and then stormed it. The source said an automatic rifle, a pistol and a large quantity of ammunition were found in the house. (www.newsru.com, October 8). According to NEWS.ru, to the question of give up, wife of the rebel denied. She responded with Ak-47. On October 4, FSB bomb disposal experts defused an explosive device planted in a car parked outside three five-story apartment buildings in Derbent (EDM, October 8). On October 3, unidentified gunmen shot and killed Murtazili Magomedov, a resident of the village of Komsomolskoe in Dagestan’s Kizilyurt district described as a well-known pro-Russian Muslim theologian, as he was driving on the Kavkaz federal highway. In Chechnya, a senior lieutenant who was a commander of a Russian Occupation army unit was killed on October 7, when Freedom Fighters of ChRI fired on an observation post near the settlement of Yandy in the Achkhoi-Martan district. According to rumors, rebelion group came from a wooded area near the observation post. Kavkazsky Uzel reported on October 4 that 173 people had been killed in the 170 days since the Russian government announced an end to the counter-terrorist operation regime launched in Chechnya in 1999. And real numbers are definatelly bigger. In those 170 days, at least 71 battles between Chechen Republic of Ichkeria forces and Russian Occupants took place in which damages are more on Occupants' side. At least 62 so-called "law-enforcement officers" were killed and at least 117 were wounded (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, October 4). It seems that war has no end in Caucasus region. Ingushetia and Dagestan became danger as Chechnya. But still, Chechnya is about to blow up in any moment. ChechenCenter.info |