26 January 2007, 12:22

Court rejects the first of 42 suits of Chechnya residents to RF Defence Ministry

Today, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has defeated the first one out of the 42 claims of the residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF). Mr. Uzeiru Abuliev, who was tortured and lost his house, demanded to compensate his moral damage at a rate of three million roubles, Ramazan Rajabov, claimants' advocate, has told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

The residents of the village who were forced to escape to Dagestan want to collect from the Ministry 126 million roubles as moral compensation for the clean-up ("zachistka") conducted in the village on June 4, 2005, by the fighters of the "Vostok" (East) special battalion of the Chief Reconnaissance Department of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. According to the version of the victims, during the raid over this settlement the militaries had burnt several households and killed two local residents; eleven more persons disappeared.

Author: Vyacheslav Feraposhkin, CK correspondent

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