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| 86 suspects detained in connection with Ingush violence |
| 2004-06-28 |
| Eighty-six people have been detained in connection with last week’s raids on Ingushetia that killed at least 98 people, Itar-Tass reported, and the head of the Ingush branch of the Federal Security Service denied that security services had acted illegally when they swept into camps housing Chechen refugees to search for participants.Itar-Tass quoted an unidentified Ingush Interior Ministry official as saying Saturday that 86 people in all had been detained in connection with the Monday night attacks, which raged for about four hours before the assailants melted away. At least 125 people were injured in the raids. The Interior Ministry official said charges were being brought against seven of them, Itar-Tass reported. Sergei Koryakov, the chief of the Ingush FSB branch, insisted Friday that search operations for suspected participants in refugee camps "are being conducted in compliance with the law and under the supervision of the prosecution authorities," Interfax reported. He said residents of the camps are suspected both of involvement in the attacks and in rebel activities in general. Raisa Isayeva, the administrator of the Altiyevo refugee camp in Ingushetia, said security agents had seized 36 men living at the camp on Wednesday and that their whereabouts were unknown. On Thursday, "we were surrounded again by horrible gunmen in masks, who spoke no language but obscenities," Isayeva said. "All the women were herded into the laundry building and locked in. Men were again put face-down on the ground and the gunmen were kicking them. They broke doors to our rooms, took away clothes and gold jewelry," she said. Acting Deputy Ingush Interior Minister Musa Apiyev denied the refugees had been mistreated. He said military uniforms and clothing with traces of blood had been found. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 On Thursday, "we were surrounded again by horrible gunmen in masks, who spoke no language but obscenities," Isayeva said. That would be Chechen. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-06-28 6:08:15 PM |