posted by circassiankama on August, 2009 as INGUSHETIA
August 03, 2009
Two Young Ingush Fighters Surrender
Two young fighters have responded
to the July 20 appeal by Ingushetian President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to
turn themselves in to the authorities. Yevkurov had called specifically
on young people who were "blackmailed" into joining the Islamic
resistance to lay down their arms. He assured them that they would not
be punished if they did so, but warned at the same time that those who
did not "come to their senses" would be hunted down and killed.
The
two young men surrendered to police on July 31, and they and their
parents subsequently met with Ingushetia's interior minister, Colonel
Ruslan Meyriyev, and Prosecutor Yury Turygin. Meyriyev invited them
both to join the police force; it is not clear whether they accepted
that offer.
Ingushetian Prime Minister Rashid Gaysanov, who
assumed the presidential duties temporarily in late June after Yevkurov
was seriously injured in a car bomb attack, has likewise argued for leniency toward young men who joined the resistance ranks out of what he termed a misplaced desire for "justice."
Up
to half of the police force of neighboring Chechnya comprises former
resistance fighters who took advantage of successive amnesties
proclaimed by the Russian State Duma and laid down their arms. Some of
them reportedly continue to abet their former comrades in arms by
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