[RFE/RL] Chechen locals say authorities are carrying out Ramzan Kadyrov's orders to destroy the homes of relatives of alleged militants held responsible for recent attacks. Residents in the village of Yandi said that masked men arrived in more than a dozen vehicles late on December 8 and set several homes on fire.On December 6, after 14 policemen were killed, Kadyrov announced that relatives of militants involved in the killings would be evicted from Chechnya and their homes "razed down to the basement."
The Moscow-based human rights group Memorial said that six homes of relatives of suspected Chechen militants, including three men killed during the attack in Grozny, have been burned to the ground.