"Mashr": in 2008, 212 persons were killed in Ingushetia

In 2008, in Ingushetia, 8 persons were kidnapped and 212 more lost. The figures are published in today's regular report "Violence under Control" of the human rights Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Magomed Mutsolgov, leader of the "Mashr" and a member of the Expert Board for Human Rights in Russia.

According to the Republic's public and human rights organizations, as the report says, today the number of kidnapped and missing persons whose fate is unknown after 2002 has reached 169 persons.

The report also describes separate murders, for example, of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru" (now - the "Ingushetia.Org", - comment of the "Caucasian Knot"), and gives Mr Mutsolgov's interview on that occasion.

A number of published articles refer to the situation in the Prigorodny and Dzheirakh Districts.

The report concludes with recommendations to the federal agencies of law and order and supervision.

For example, the Russian State Office of Public Prosecutor is recommended to set up a special commission with involvement of human rights activists for verifying facts of violation of human rights by power agencies and prosecutor's office of Ingushetia and North Ossetia. It is also recommended to check up all the cases initiated on kidnappings and disappearances of people in Northern Caucasus, and withdraw from military prosecutor's offices all the criminal cases, where civilians are figuring, and hand them over to civil inspectors.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia is recommended to urgently complete the construction of the investigatory isolation facility in Ingushetia and start building a corrective colony.

Most of recommendations are addressed to the MIA of the Russian Federation. First of all, the "Mashr" recommends disbanding the temporary MIA's operative grouping for Ingushetia and removing the additionally deployed contingent, and instead, to recruit additional 3000 workers of Ingushetian MIA from local residents.

It is also recommended to set up educational training centres to improve militiamen's professional skills.

The "Mashr" recommends forbidding wearing masks on militiamen's faces and using transport vehicles without registration numbers.

The issue of forced migrants and the Prigorodny District were also touched on. Thus, the Government of Russia was advised to create a commission for evaluations and compensations, with account of real market prices, of the material damage caused to forced migrants, and draft a step-by-step return plan of the Prigorodny District and part of the Malgobek District under jurisdiction of the Republic of Ingushetia.