Kadyrov's threats to Koran burners remind social media users of extrajudicial executions

The promise announced by Ramzan Kadyrov to reward for killing or capturing the authors of the Koran-burning video has opened up wide opportunities for punishing those who had nothing to do with the filming of the video, while the mass executions of residents of Chechen during military campaigns went unpunished, social media users have pointed out.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 17, Ramzan Kadyrov promised to pay 5 million roubles for the execution of participants in the video, in which a page from the Koran was used to light a fire, and 10 million roubles for capturing them alive.

The post about the rewards promised by Kadyrov was placed on March 17 in the Instagram* public "ChP/Chechnya". Some commentators have also expressed dissatisfaction with the burning of the Koran page.

Some users recalled extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. "And when will a reward be set for the capture or the heads of those militaries, who committed massacres during the punitive cleansing operations in the villages of Samashki, Aldy and others?" the user follow_me_696 has asked.

Ramzan Kadyrov "has decided to catch the hype by using a rather murky and incomprehensible topic," the user joseph.ondricka, a reader of the "Caucasian Knot", has suggested. "Firstly, there are big doubts that these are the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who are burning the Koran page. It looks more like a provocation ... Secondly, the participants in this 'action' are hiding their faces," the user has written.