Ingushetia: Evkurov Met with Relatives of Those Killed in Special Operation

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Ingushetia: Evkurov Met with Relatives of Those Killed in Special Operation

On April 9, 2012 in the city of Magas, Ingushetia, the head of the Republic of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov met with the relatives of Shamsudin Gardanov, Zina Velhieva and Salaudin Muruzhev – three of the five people killed by forces of the Russian Federal Security Service of Ingushetia on April 3 in Nazran during a special operation to detain suspected members of illegal armed groups.
It should be noted that on April 3, a VAZ-2107 car on Oskanova street in Nazran was fired upon, in which there were five people: Salman Gardanov, Shamsudin Gardanov, Dzhuneid Gardanov, Salaudin Muruzhev and Zina Velhieva. The National Counter-Terrorism Committee said that they were rebels and had shown resistance at attempts to arrest them. As many as two of them – man and woman – were found with suicide belts on their bodies, the explosives set (it is impossible to defuse the device without detonating them) and the car with the dead passengers was blown up (http://www.memo.ru/eng/news/2012/04/06/0604121.html).
At a meeting with security officials on April 4, Evkurov announced that a group of people preparing a terrorist attack were under surveillance. In attempts to arrest them on April 3, they had shown resistance and were killed by return fire. It should also be noted that Evkurov did not list the number of people belonging to the group, nor their names. He also said that information of there being "innocent victims among the dead, who were with the bandits by accident" would be examined (http://www.ingushetia.ru/m-news/archives/015982.shtml#more,http://www.ingushetia.ru/m-video/archives/015990.shtml).
On April 5, the son of Zina Velhieva contacted the Human Rights Centre "Memorial." He said that on April 3 she was by chance in the car of her neighbour Salman Gardanov; at the end of her shift at the brick factory where she worked, she sat in Gardanov's car so he could drop her off as the factory bus was running late.
On April 9, the father of Salaudin Muruzhev Bashir Muruzhev, the father of Shamsudin Gardanov Israpil Gardanov, sons of Zina Velhieva Bekhan and Kazbek Velhievs and other relatives of the three deceased, met Evkurov. The Speaker of the Ingush Parliament Muharbek Didigov, Prosecutor General of the Republic Pavel Belyakov, Secretary of the RI Security Council Ahmed Kotivev and journalists were also present at the meeting. The Prosecutor General assured the relatives that a serious investigation of the murder of their relatives would be conducted. Evkurov noted that the law enforcement agencies have no information as to the involvement of Zina Velhieva, Salaudin Muruzhev and Shamsudin Gardanov in illegal armed groups.
"No one is calling them rebels or suicide bombers. The investigative authorities are trying to find out the reason for their presence in the car with the bandits. One of the main versions is that the Gardanov brothers, as members of illegal armed groups, used them to cover up the transportation of explosive devices," he stressed, addressing the relatives (http://www.ingushetia.ru/m-news/archives/016010.shtml#more, http://www.ingushetia.ru/m-video/archives/016019.shtml).
It is known that on the eve of the meeting, Muhtar Buzurtanov, aide to the head of Ingushetia, Ahmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council, and representatives of the Mufti met the families of Velhieva, Muruzhev and Shamsudin Gardanov, and on behalf of Evkurov expressed their condolences and offered assistance amounting to 100,000 roubles.
Y.B.Evkurov promised to hold another meeting with the relatives on April 20, when representatives of the Prosecutor's Office will be ready to provide them with the first results of the investigation into the circmumstances of their relatives’ deaths.
Meanwhile, from Evkurov's statements it is believed that the brothers Salman and Dzhuneid Gardanovs, killed in the raid, members of illegal armed groups, were transporting explosive devices in the car. According to Evkurov, this fact is confirmed by operational recordings of their telephone conversations.

See also:  http://malsagoff.livejournal.com/622644.html (in Russian).

April 16, 2012


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