Ingushetia: Complicity with Boeviks of the Men Killed during a Special-Force Operation Is Denied by Their Relatives
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Ingushetia: Complicity with Boeviks
of the Men Killed during a Special-Force Operation Is Denied by
Their Relatives
On 8 April 2013 in Dolakovo village, Nazran district, Republic of
Ingushetia, five persons died during a special-force operation,
which was aimed at the detection of participants of illegal armed
groups. Four of the victims were suspects of the participation in
illegal armed groups and one an official of the law-enforcement
authorities.
According to information, which has been published on the website
of the Russian FSB National Anti-Terrorism Committee, in the
course of measures, aimed at the detection of participants of
armed opposition groups, information about the possible stay of
some bandits in Dolakovo village was received. At 5am the decision on imposing a regime of
counter-terrorism operation was taken. In the undertaking of the
operation the FSB office in Ingushetia and the Russian MIA were
involved. During the armed confrontation, which lasted for several
hours, Khavazh Magomedovich Ozdoev, born in 1982, Artur
Magomedovich Pliev, born in 1975, Yakub Bamatgireevich Mankiev,
born in 1986, and Ibragim Yusupovich Mestoev, born in 1987, were
killed. Furthermore, an official of the internal troops of the
Russian MIA and company leader,
major Dzhambulat Magomedovich
Amirarslanov, born in 1981, was killed in the gunfight
(http://nak.fsb.ru/).
In the meantime the relatives of Khavazh Ozdoev have told their
version of the conduction of the special operation. On 8 April, at
about 5am, siloviks placed
guards on Stepnaya and Kambileevskaya
streets, blocked two houses and
began storming the house No. 35 on Kambileevskaya street, the home
of the brothers Khavazh and Adam Ozdoev and of their cousin Artur
Pliev.
According to Ozdoevs' sister, Zareta Ozdoeva, who was eyewitness
of the incident, Khavazh, Adam and Artur woke up early and
prepared for their morning prayer. After the prayer Khavazh left
for the local school, where he was working as a fireman in a
boiler room. As soon has he went through the house's gate, a
volley of automatic gunfire went off. Hearing the shots, his
brother Adam and his cousin Artur came out of the house. Artur ran
to the gate but Adam shouted that they should run into the garden,
so they ran off towards the garden. Artur was killed and Adam
wounded but he managed to run sidelong in the garden.
Zareta, who didn't understand, what was happening, went to the
gate. The siloviks, who were
behind the gate, shouted at her to go away from the gate and
threatened to fire a shot at her. The woman opened the gate and
discovered her dead brother. Khavazh lied on his back with his
arms stretched upwards. Zareta started yelling at the military
men: ”What are you doing? Why did you kill him? You see very well
that he's not armed!” She grabbed one of the siloviks at his clothes and tried to pull him
into the yard. A military man
pushed her away and another asked her, while pointing at the dead
Khavazh: ”Is this Mestoev?” When he heard her negative response,
he told Zareta, that Khavazh had shot at him with an automatic
gun. According to Ozdoeva, Khavazh didn't carry a gun, when he
left the house.
His relatives deny the siloviks'
version, in which the Ozdoevs were showing armed resistance.
According to them, it became obvious, that Khavazh was shot into
the back, when they examined his body. This means, that he
couldn't have been shooting at the military men, as the relatives
argue.
Zareta Ozdoeva insisted, that the officers of power structures
should search the house. During the examination they used Zareta
as a human shield. They gave her a small video camera and
thoroughly examined every room in the house and the yard. After
that one of the military men transmitted over radio: “Everything
is clear.” When the officers
received evidence that there was nobody else in the house, one of
them swore and told someone over the radio: “This isn't the right
house, we should have gone to the second house from the left
corner, and this is the second house from the right corner of the
block.”
Then several siloviks went to
the house of Yakub Mankiev, which is situated 100-150 meters away
from the Ozdoevs' house. Another group of military men, the
majority of them drunk, started to search the Ozdoevs' house
again. This time they weren't acting in a hurry and involved
neither witnesses nor the
owners of the house. One of the officers
asked the mother of the Ozdoev brothers, if they were in contact
with Yakub Mankiev. The woman answered that they had a neighborly
relationship and that they visited each other.
Furthermore, the officials took a saliva sample from Zarena
against her will, explaining that it was needed for the
identification of her dead brother.
According to the Ozdoevs, after the search, documents, computers,
home appliances, jewelery, tools, mobile phones, financial
savings, building materials, carpets, a mink coat, car tires and
eggs from under the broody hen were missing. No documents have
been produced by the siloviks.
It can be reasonably assumed, that the main target of the power
structures officers was
Ibragim Mestoev. He was on a visit at Yakub Mankiev's, when the siloviks came to him.
After Mankiev's house had been blocked, the siloviks let Yakub's father, Bamat-Girei Mankiev,
pass to the place of the special operation. He entered into talks
with his son and tried to persuade him to leave the house and to
turn himself in. Yakub declined, explaining, that he couldn't leave the house, while he
had a guest. Ibragim Mestoev,
who was wanted under
suspicion of having committed several crimes, didn't intend to
turn himself in to the law-enforcement authorities either.
Bamat-Girei Mankiev also tried to talk to him but he wasn't
willing to negotiate. Only the women and children left the house.
The residents of the neighboring houses were removed as well from
the zone, were the operation was to be undertaken. The
negotiations lasted for about an hour. After it Bamat-Girei
Mankiev was led back through the cordon and the storm on the
house, by making use of heavy armor, began shortly. It lasted for
more than six hours. As a result, the house was demolished. Ibragim
Mestoev and Yakub Mankiev, who were hiding in the basement, were
killed.
The neighboring houses were damaged due to the explosions. The
roof and the walls of the house of Maksharip Mankiev were
destroyed. The barn of another neighboring house burned off.
The Investigative Committee of the Nazran inter-district
investigation department of Ingushetia opened a criminal case
regarding armed resistance against power
structure officers
during the undertaking of a special operation in Dolakovo village
in accordance with Art. 317 (Encroachment on the Life of an
Officer of a Law-enforcement Agency) and Part 2, Art. 222 (Illegal
Acquisition, Transfer, Sale, Storage, Transportation, or Bearing
of Firearms) of the Russian Criminal Code
(http://06.sledcom.ru/news/detail.php?news=19756).
On 9 April the bodies of Yakub Mankiev, Khavazh Ozdoev, and Artur
Pliev were handed out to the relatives for the burial. The
whereabouts of Adam Ozdoev are till now unknown to the relatives.
According to them, Adam was seized and brought to the republican
hospital under guard. After
rendering him first medical aid, he was taken to an undisclosed
location.
As reported by the Operation Headquarters in the Republic of
Ingushetia, the killed were active participants of a “Nazran
criminal group". A number of
terrorist crimes - assassination and murder of officers of law-enforcement authorities
and military men, numerous cases of blackmail of funds from local
entrepreneurs – go on their account. Furthermore, there is
information about the direct involvement of the bandits in the
preparation and blowing up of a suicide bomber at the post of the
street-patrol service on the administrative border of Ingushetia
and North Ossetia-Alania, which was committed on 23 October 2012.
As a result of this terrorist act three police officers died.
Yakub Mankiev's relatives contradict the information about his
involvement in an illegal armed group. They claim, that during the
negotiations with Yakub a representative of the FSB office of
Ingushetia asserted, that the special service knew about his
innocence. The only thing that was incriminating him, was hiding a
wanted person.
According to the relatives of the Ozdoev brothers and Artur Pliev,
they didn't maintain any relationships with boeviks and have never committed any unlawful
acts. They led their life in an open way and earned their living
through honest work. Adam and Khavazh worked at the secondary
school of Dolakovo village: Adam was an informatics teacher and
also fireman in the school's boiler room and Khavazh was a
fireman. Two weeks prior to the described incident, Artur Pliev
started his work as an office accountant at the same school. He
lived with his relatives, but was planning to rent an own place in
the same village near the school.
The relatives of the Ozdoev brothers and Artur Pliev are
determined to achieve the withdrawal of the accusations of the
victims, as well as their post-mortem rehabilitation and the
calling to account of the persons who are responsible for their
death. Further, they demand the release of Adam Ozdoev, who, in
their opinion, is kept by power structures.