Photo from www.photosight.ru Photo from www.photosight.ru 1000 Rally in Chechnya After Local Cossack Leader Attacked
02.05.2006
MosNews Around 1,000 people protested in southern Russia on Monday after an armed raid on the home of a Russian Cossack leader. The protesters accused the security forces of being behind the raid, police quoted by AP said Monday. The protest took place in Beslan, the scene of the deadly September 2004 school hostage seizure. The Beslan Mothers’ Committee, founded by mothers of the children who died in the siege, took part in the rally. A group of armed, masked men, who said they were from an anti-terrorist police unit burst into the Cossack leader Khariton Yedziyev’s home in Beslan early Friday and tried to take him away, the regional Interior Ministry said. But neighbors blocked the path outside and forced the abductors to set him free. The Beslan mothers, who have criticized law enforcement authorities for failing to prevent the school siege and its bloody climax, called on police to end illegal security sweeps. The Cossacks, ethnic Russians who settled the mainly Muslim North Caucasus from the 16th century, help to guard internal borders in the region. In the war-torn separatist province, one soldier died on Sunday and eight were wounded in two separate accidents involving military vehicles, the Chechen Interior Ministry said. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/05/02/cossacksrally.shtml
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