As more Chechens go missing, critics blame president's son

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As more Chechens go missing, critics blame president's son

Anna Badkhen, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, February 29, 2004


Gudermes, Russia -- Makka Salamova never got to say goodbye to her sons. The men in ski masks and camouflage who dragged them away into the night had tied her up and stuffed a rag into her mouth so she would keep quiet and out of their way.

Since that day on June 6, 2003, when Salamova lay on the floor, powerless and mute, she has heard nothing about her sons, Isa Eskiyev, 33, and Uslan Eskiyev, 30. She doesn't know who took them, where they are or whether they are alive, she said.

Last week, wiping her tears with a baby towel taken from a plastic shopping bag, Salamova, 55, stood on the sidewalk in downtown Gudermes, the second-largest city of Russia's shell-shocked breakaway republic of Chechnya, hoping to find out something -- anything -- about Isa and Uslan.

"They are innocent, innocent!" she cried. "Where are they? Where are my boys?"

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1. another recent heartwarming story about Kadyrov's gangs

Collaborators shot a disabled person before his mother's eyes

Daymohk news agency reported that armed collaborators from the gang formations of the Kremlin's main puppet Kadyrov committed another murder of a peaceful civilian. Our agency's source reported that February 20 in Chechen capital Jokhar a group of bandits at the city's central market called a young man passing by and ordered him to stop. But the man kept going and the collaborators yelled once again: «Stop I said!» After that the bandits shouldered their assault rifles all at once and opened heavy fire in the young man's back. Among the loud shouts of the civilians nearby, who witnessed the murder, a heartrending shout of a woman was heard: «He is deaf! He can't hear anything!» She was the mother of the young man who got killed. She ran towards her son's dead body laying in blood. Apparently, her son died on the spot. No other details of the murder have been reported.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl/message/36433

Putin & Kadyrov are probably a model for the kind of puppet regime the US government wants to maintain the occupation of Iraq.