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| Can Gimri agreement subdue insurgency in Dagestan? |
| 2014-02-15 |
| Leaders in the Russian republic of Dagestan has launched a new initiative to weaken the Islamic insurgency by providing material benefits to residents of those rural districts where Prime Minister Abdusamad Gamidov signed an agreement to that effect last week with the local government of the central district of Untsukul; and the municipal council and local community of the village of Gimri, which for years has been a key base and recruiting ground for the insurgency. Whether that approach will prove more effective than previous efforts is doubtful, however, especially in light of the repeated reprisals in recent years by security forces against Gimri's population of 5,000. Gimri is the historic center of Islamic resistance to the Russian expansion into the Caucasus. It was the home of the legendary Imam Shamil, the Avar who spearheaded that resistance from 1834 until his capture by Czarist Russian forces in 1859. More recently, Gimri was the base for one of the most feared and ruthless insurgency groups, headed by Ibragim Gadzhidadayev, who was born there. |
| Posted by:ryuge |