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North Caucasus Weekly Volume 9, Issue 33 (September 5, 2008) North Caucasus Weekly Volume 9, Issue 33 (September 5, 2008) Police Disperse Demonstrators Protesting Killing of Website Owner Police in Ingushetia’s largest city, Nazran, forcefully broke up an anti-government protest on September 2, two days after police shot dead Magomed Yevloev, owner of the opposition Ingushetiya.ru website. Reuters reported that the protest started during the funeral of Yevloev, who died after being shot while in police custody. The news agency quoted Magomed Mutsolgov of the Ingushetia-based human rights group Mashr as saying police had arrived at around 5:30 a.m. local time to disperse a crowd of around 50 men who had been sleeping in Nazran’s main square. Police and military vehicles were then deployed to block access to the main square, Mutsolgov told Reuters. Protest organizers later vowed to try and force their way back into the square on September 2. However, an Ingushetia Interior Ministry press official denied the police had forced the demonstrators to leave and insisted they had left peacefully. “We didn’t even have to make any arrests,” Reuters quoted the official as saying. Vremya Novostei on September 3 quoted demonstrators as saying that their protest was broken up by OMON riot police who shot and wounded several people. However, the newspaper quoted Ingushetia’s Interior Ministry and prosecutor’s office as saying that police neither fired weapons nor used force, and that the demonstrators themselves ended their protest after the police persuaded them to do so. Still, Vremya Novostei reported that on the evening of September 2, opposition leaders had to talk relatives and friends of Yevloev out of trying to use force to retake the square where they had held their demonstration, which was now occupied by riot police. Ingushetiya.ru reported September 2 that the demonstrators, in addition to demanding an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Magomed Yevloev’s death and the resignation of Ingushetia’s leadership, also demanded that Ingushetia’s former president, Ruslan Aushev, be brought back to replace Murat Zyazikov, the republic’s incumbent president, who has been the main target of the opposition and Ingushetiya.ru. Newsru.com on September 3 quoted opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev as saying that several hundred people held a demonstration in the Ingush city of Malgobek that day in honor of Magomed Yevloev. According to Khazbiev, their main demands were the resignation of the republic’s leadership and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Yevloev’s death. However, the website quoted other opposition leaders as saying that only several dozen people took part in the demonstration in Malgobek and that it lasted only a short time. These opposition leaders said that Magomed Yevloev’s father, Yakha Yevloev, called on those gathered not to engage in any protest actions while the mourning period for his son was ongoing. Yakha Yevloev also thanked the protesters for their support and vowed that Zyazikov and Ingush Interior Minister Musa Medov would be made to answer for his son’s murder, declaring a blood feud with both men. Newsru.com reported that the demonstrators then dispersed at Yakha Yevloev’s request. Find this article at: http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374396 North Caucasus Weekly Volume 9, Issue 33 (September 5, 2008) Ingush Opposition, Rights Groups Call Yevloev Killing a Political Murder Magomed Yevloev died on August 31 from a gunshot wound sustained while in police custody. Police said he was shot after lunging for an officer’s gun, but his supporters and human rights groups say they do not believe that explanation. As Kommersant reported on September 1, Yevloev’s death took place shortly after he was detained by police at the airport in Ingushetia’s capital Magas. The newspaper reported that it was first told about Yevloev’s detention by Czech human rights activist Hana Demetrova, who told the newspaper by telephone from Prague that Yevloev had been in the Czech Republic and had decided to fly home to Ingushetia and was expected to return to Prague on September 1. “We told him that it is dangerous to go there now, but he didn’t listen,” she told the newspaper. Ten minutes after she told Kommersant Yevloev had been detained at the airport in Magas, she called the newspaper back to report that he had been killed. Magomed Yevloev Kommersant reported that immediately after hearing from Demetrova, it contacted Ingush opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev, who had met Yevloev at the airport on August 31. “The jet flying from Moscow to Ingushetia that Magomed was onboard landed at the airport on schedule, at 13.30,” Khazbiev told the newspaper. “I and another dozen and a half people who came to meet Magomed went into the air terminal’s waiting room and, observing the taxiing airliner through the glass partition, waited for the passengers to start coming out.” Khazbiev said that another dozen and a half friends and relatives of Yevloev were waiting for him in cars outside the terminal. “We were afraid the authorities would try to detain Magomed and decided to take safety measures,” Khazbiev told Kommersant. “When the plane landed, Magomed sent me an SMS [text] message saying: ‘Zyazikov is flying with me’.” Ingushetia’s president, Murat Zyazikov, was on the same flight as Yevloev. According to Khazbiev, the first passenger off the plane was Zyazikov, who got into one of the cars waiting for him on the tarmac. “Several minutes after the presidential motorcade’s departure, another cavalcade of armored automobiles drove up to the airplane – two UAZ and four Volgas,” Khazbiev said. “Police armed to the teeth poured out of the cars, among them the head of the [Ingush] MVD [Interior Ministry] Musa Medov.” Khazbiev said that the policemen “pounced on” Yevloev after he exited the aircraft and dragged him toward one of their vehicles. Yevloev’s relatives and friends then rushed into the airport waiting room, pushing aside airport security guards and breaking glass doors, but failed to liberate him: the policemen who had Yevloev in custody fired automatic weapons at their feet, threw Yevloev into one of the waiting UAZ vehicles and sped off. The police convoy drove off not via the airport’s front gate, which was already blockaded by opposition supporters, but by an “alternate route.” Khazbiev told Kommersant that once it left the airport, the police convoy split into two columns, one of which drove off toward the village of Troitsky while the other drove to the Kavkaz highway in the direction of Nazran. Yevloev’s supporters assumed he was being taken to a detention facility in Nazran and took off after the second column. According to Khazbiev, they managed to catch up with the second column of police vehicles at the turnoff to Nazran near the Ekazhevsky Circle and rammed two of the police Volgas, but it turned out that Yevloev was not in either of those vehicles. Yevloev’s supporters dragged the policemen out of the Volgas and beat them, seizing their side-arms and IDs. Khazbiev said the captured policemen said: “There’s no blood on us; we are not guilty.” He added: “At that point, we didn’t understand what blood they were talking about; we thought they were talking about previous victims of the siloviki. But … they were talking about Magomed, who had already been murdered in a car.” Yevloev’s supporters then headed to the Nazran city police department (GUVD), where they believed he was being held. “We had already planned to storm the GUVD when one of the guys found that Magomed [had been] mortally wounded back at the airport [and] was in the resuscitation unit of Nazran’s TsKB [Central Clinical Hospital],” Khazbiev said. “Later, the doctors told us that he was taken directly from the airport in an essentially hopeless condition, and therefore they didn’t even want to operate on him. They performed an operation, but it didn’t save him.” Khazbiev called the official version of Magomed Yevloev’s death – that he was shot accidently – a lie. “They wanted to kill Magomed,” he said. “Think about it: what need was there to use spetsnaz armed to the teeth to detain an unarmed person? Magomed could have been overpowered without the use of weapons. And why did the weapon that supposedly shot Magomed accidentally not have its safety on and have a cartridge in the chamber? I washed the body of Magomed and saw the wound: the wound went in one temple and out of the other. It is impossible to inflict such a wound in a fight.” Human rights activists in Moscow also believe Yevloev was killed deliberately. “It is hard to believe that Yevloev received a mortal wound while resisting arrest,” said Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Memorial human rights group. “He was unarmed, given that he was seized from the aircraft. You cannot bring a weapon onto a plane. Human rights activists have repeatedly emphasized that in Ingushetia, the practice of extra-judicial killing is used: people are not detained, but murdered.” Ingushetiya.ru reported on September 3 that it had received an anonymous telephone call stating that the commander of Ingushetia’s OMON special police, Magomed Tsoroev, personally participated in detaining and killing Magomed Yevloev. However, the website later reported that Tsoroev personally told the current owner of the website, Maksharip Aushev, on September 4 that he had been on vacation and only returned to Ingushetia on the evening of August 31 – that is, after Yevloev’s killing – and had no role in the killing. He also said he did not give the OMON orders to kill Yevloev and said he would swear on the Koran that he was telling the truth.
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