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| Mullah killed in Chechnya in front of his own child |
| 2024-01-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [KavkazUzel] A mullah in the village of Voskresenovsky, Shelkovsky district of Chechnya, was stabbed to death in front of a child. According to sources, the motive could be blood feud. The opposition channel denied this version. The murder became known from a video distributed in WhatsApp chats, shot by the alleged killer in the first person. "Caucasian Knot" does not publish the video for moral reasons. The video shows a man approaching a car, starting a conversation, attacking a couple of meters from the frightened boy, getting into a car, presumably an Infinity, and driving away. According to telegram channels, the person killed was Abdurakhim Gakaev, born in 1968. Before his death, he received more than ten blows with a knife, writes the Mash Gor channel. The motive could be blood feud, the report says, but the details and circumstances that could lead to the blood feud are not given in the report. The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic confirmed the fact of murder. According to the department, the murder occurred in the courtyard of a private house. The attacker stabbed the 54-year-old man several times. He died on the spot. “A criminal case has been opened regarding the murder of a resident of the village of Voskresenovskoye (part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation),” says a message published on the department’s website. The report also said that investigators are establishing a motive for the crime. Telegram channels covering the actions of security forces indicate the name of the suspect. Turpal-Ali Sh, born in 1993, resident of Gudremes, was put on the wanted list, reported, in particular, the telegram channel "ChP-Kavkaz". According to one version, it was a “blood feud.” According to one of the channels opposed to the authorities of Chechnya, the suspect in the murder of Turpal-Ali 10 years ago turned to a healer (using alternative medicine methods) in Dagestan. Five years later, he began to seek treatment for witchcraft, so Turpal-Ali became a “patient” of a man whom he killed, deciding that he was the same sorcerer. The "Caucasian Knot" reported that in Chechnya, since July 2019, the persecution of residents for occultism has intensified. The state television channel "Grozny" regularly publishes reports in which local residents repent of practicing witchcraft. On October 29, 2022, security forces detained Khasukha Suliev, a resident of the Gudermes district of Chechnya, after which the head of the Center for Islamic Medicine, Adam Elzhurkaev, reprimanded him for engaging in occultism. TV spots with public repentance of sorcerers in Chechnya are only part of the practice of public apologies, which, at the instigation of the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov, is practiced in other regions. You can read more about cases of forced apologies in the Caucasian Knot reference book “Fashion for apologies: from Chechnya to the very outskirts” and in the “Chronicle of public apologies in the Caucasus”. Let us also recall that the Chechen authorities regularly report on the reconciliation of blood families through a specially created reconciliation commission. Reconciliation of bloodlines often occurs under pressure from the authorities, although in such cases hostility may actually continue, President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus Ruslan Kutaev noted earlier. The Chechen authorities created a commission for national reconciliation in 2010. On October 17, 2011, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that the commission had been abolished as unnecessary, but the next day, a new commission was created under the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya, which, as the muftiate explained, would also deal with the reconciliation of bloodlines. |
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