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Head of children's charity shot dead in Chechnya
Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:59pm EDT
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The kidnapped head of a children's charity and her husband were found murdered in the boot of a car in Russia's Chechnya on Tuesday in the latest in a string of killings in the troubled Muslim republic.
The bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and husband Alik Dzhabrailov were found with multiple bullet wounds hours after they were seized from the office of the Save the Generations charity in the regional capital Grozny, prosecutors said in a statement.
The attack comes a month after leading Chechen rights activist Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped and murdered by unknown assailants, triggering international outrage.
"It is impossible to contemplate rights work in that region now," said Human Rights Watch activist Tatyana Lokshina, who regularly travels to Chechnya. "Activists there are terrified."
Regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov pledges loyalty to the Kremlin but has failed to stem growing separatist violence. He has been accused by some critics of ordering the killing of Estemirova and ordering rights abuses by the security forces.
Kadyrov, a former rebel who switched sides, condemned Tuesday's killing as an "inhuman crime" and said he would take the investigation under his personal control.
"The person who committed this crime wanted to split our society, to destabilize the Chechen republic," he said.
KADYROV'S CONTROL 'WANING'
Alexei Malashenko, an expert with the US-funded Moscow Carnegie Center, said the recent spate of attacks showed the situation was slipping out of Kadyrov's control.
"In Chechnya there is a huge number of murders and violent attacks, but there is no reason to believe it is all on Kadyrov's orders," he said. "There is no question that Kadyrov's control is waning."
The Save the Generations charity that Sadulayeva headed provides medical and psychological help to young people who have suffered as a result of violence in Chechnya, including children who lost limbs during the region's separatist wars in the past two decades.
The group's work was not political, said Lyudmila Alexeyeva of the Moscow Helsinki rights group. "It just shows that anyone whose position allows them a gun can kill whoever they like."
The government blames Islamic militants for a rise in attacks on security forces and local officials in Chechnya and neighboring North Caucasus provinces in the past few months.
Rights group Memorial say Kadyrov is behind much of the violence in Chechnya and accused him of ordering the July 15 killing of their activist Natalia Estemirova because of her strong criticism of his government. Kadyrov denied involvement.
Kadyrov has found himself repeatedly accused of ordering extra-judicial killings after a growing number of his critics and political opponents have been murdered. Continued...
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