Mass beating of Chechen children occurred in the children's camp in the Krasnodar territory, where 300 schoolchildren aged 7-14 years from Chechnya were having a rest.
As human rights defenders claim, the children were beaten by nearly 400 men from the local community. Camp's director and his two sons participated in the attack.
9 children with severe injuries were hospitalized as a result.
Mass beating in the camp of "Don" in a village of Novomikhailovka-2, in the Tuapse region of Kuban, occurred in the night of 24 July.
According to tutors and victims, a deputy director of the Don Recreation Camp, Boris Usoltsev, being drunk, approached three teenagers from Chechnya in the courtyard in evening of 24 July and began to beat them, shouting foul curses.
При этом Усольцев кричал - «Я вас давил в Чечне и здесь буду давить». Как сообщается, Усольцев ранее воевал в Чечне в составе банды т.н. контрактников-наёмников.
Thus, Usoltsev shouted - "I was crushing you in Chechnya, and I'll be crushing you here". Reportedly, Usoltsev previously fought in Chechnya in the gang of so-called contractor mercenaries.
Teacher Ruslan Ginazov tries protect pupils and had to user power to stop Usoltsev.
The father of the instigator of fight, the head of the camp Mikhail Usoltsev, tried to settle the case offered "peace" and asked teachers not to wash dirty linen in public. They agreed.
But soon the director returned with his second son and a crowd of 400 local residents armed with iron rods, and started a real mass beating in the camp.
"One of the beaten boys was undergoing rehabilitation after surgery, his postoperative sutures even have not yet healed", say relatives.
"Counselors from other regions have warned us that an attack on our children is being prepared, and we by the evening hidden children in separate rooms among children from other regions. We ourselves have spent the whole night on the street, trying to protect them.
Closer to the night the camp director opened the gates and let a crowd of local residents, led by his second son, Andrey, to its territory. They scoured the all building and looking for Chechen children. Someone sent the crowd to the building, where the children from the junior team of Chechnya were. It is this group of children and their coaches had to deal with an attack of brutal mob, told teacher Yakha Mahasheva.
According to tutors, they with the children were in the blockade of the attackers the whole and tried to get through to relatives and friends asking for help. Local police, they said, had taken no measures to prevent the beatings, and witnessed the pogroms, while talking with someone on the radio, sometimes mad cheering crowd, which beat the Chechen children.
It is reported that many Chechen children with head injuries and fractures of the extremities were brought to hospital in Tuapse. Seven of them are in serious condition. 60-year-old coach Ruslan Ginazov is also reported in serious condition.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
