Supposed militants liquidated in the capital of Chechnya buried anonymously

The bodies of supposed members of the armed underground, who were killed in Grozny on August 8, were not given out to relatives but buried in anonymous tombs without observance of Moslem rites.

"Close friends of one of the militants liquidated in Grozny on August 8 told me a shocking story. They assert that on August 18 in one of the cemeteries near Grozny, the bodies of these guys were dug in without observance of any religious rituals. The 'funeral team' of several persons used a bulldozer to dig a hole, where the bodies were thrown; then, the surface was levelled, and a small hump was left," the head of one of Chechen NGOs, who preferred to remain anonymous, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"Bottles with notes inside bearing the names of the casualties were thrown into the collective tomb. But the most terrible was that parents of one of the killed guys were brought to the cemetery. They were not allowed to look at their son's body, but they were forced to watch the process from aside. Only after the bodies were dug in, they were told that their son had been buried in a certain tomb in a certain row. The parents had to pay 5800 roubles 'for burial'," said the human rights activist.

The source of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent explained that earlier bodies of assassinated militants were handed over to relatives, although authorities demanded to bury them outside Moslem cemeteries without any commemoration ceremonies.