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Murders of human rights activists represent the results of the federal policies at the Northern Caucasus

Statement of the YABLOKO party
August 13, 2009

The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO calls to a cardinal change of the federal policies at the Northern Caucasus. Kidnapping and murder of Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzabrailov shows inability of the regional governments to perform their functions, marks a failure of the federal policies in Chechnya, where unlimited power was vested to Ramazan Kadyrov and none of the human rights envisaged by the Constitution of the Russian Federation are guaranteed, including the right to life.

It is obvious that the murder of human rights activists Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzabrailov is connected with their professional activities.

Organisation Let’s Save the Generation where Zarema and Alik worked provided assistance to children – victims of war. The organisation has been acting as a part of the coordination chain for UN organisations at the Northern Caucasus and rendering aid to the mine victims. We know that its staff had to face provocative actions from the law-enforcement agencies. In April 2005 the former head of Let’s Save the Generation organisation Murad Muradov and his colleague Ismail Kadayev were kidnapped during special operation in Grozny. In 2006 their mutilated bodies were returned to their relatives with a statement that the murdered activists were “participating in the unlawful armed gangs”.

We are marking that another kidnapping and murder of human rights activists in Chechnya took place right after the interview of Chechen President Ramazan Kadyrov where he insultingly referred to the recently assassinated human rights activist Natalya Estemirova.

The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO expresses condolences to the relatives and friends of Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzabrailov and their colleagues in the Let’s Save the Generation organisation.

We demand comprehensive investigation of the murder of Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzabrailov and unconditional punishment for all the guilty.

See also:
Human Rights



August 13, 2009