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Chechen president denies link to exile's murder: report
AFP - Sunday, May 3
VIENNA (AFP) - - Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has denied any involvement in the January's murder in Vienna of one of his most outspoken opponents, in an interview with an Austrian paper due out Sunday.
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"I didn't kill him," the pro-Russian leader told the Sunday edition of Die Presse newspaper, saying he had granted Umar Israilov an amnesty and had built him a house for when his return from exile.
Kadyrov said he had even been in touch with Israilov, who had been due to meet one of his representatives before his murder on January 13, when two men shot him dead in the street near his home.
Israilov, 27, a former member of Kadyrov's security forces and one of his bodyguards, defected and sought asylum in Austria in 2006.
He several times requested police protection but without success. Israilov's family have started legal action against the Austrian state for their failure to protect him.
In a December interview with The New York Times, Israilov said he had witnessed first-hand Kadyrov and his men torture opponents.
He had filed a complaint in the European Court of Human Rights accusing the Chechen president of abductions and torture between 2003 and 2005, the paper reported.
"I asked him why he said that and was still doing it. He said that otherwise, nobody would understand why he was lodging a request for asylum," Kadyrov told the paper.
"I told him 'don't write such rubbish'. You know fine well that I saved you.'
"Israilov didn't want to talk on the telephone and suggested I send him someone so he could explain to him what he expected (for his return to Chechnya). And then he was killed."
Kadyrov said his killers were people who wanted to see the war in Chechnya continue.
Last week Russia announced fresh counter-terrorism operations in Chechnya just a week after having officially ended a 10-year security regime in the war-torn region.
The lifting of the tougher regime was immediately followed by fresh clashes between rebels and troops there.
Kadyrov has continued to deny any involvement in the assassination of critics in Austria, the United Arab Emirates and in the Russian capital Moscow in recent months.
In March, a man suspected to be one of his two killers was extradited to Austria from Poland, after his arrest in Warsaw in February.
Rights activists fear Israilov's death may derail a torture case against Kadyrov in which he was to have been a key witness.
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Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, seen here in April 2009, has denied any involvement in the January's murder in Vienna of one of his most outspoken opponents, in an interview with an Austrian paper due out Sunday.
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