“As If They Fell From the Sky” Counterinsurgency, Rights Violations, and Rampant Impunity in Ingushetia
Human Rights Watch
2008, Human Rights Watch:
This report documents human rights abuses committed by law enforcement and security forces involved in counterinsurgency, including dozens of summary and arbitrary detentions, acts of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial executions. The report covers action taken during 2007 and early 2008, and describes the legal and political contexts in which they have occurred.
Table of contents:
Map of Region
I. Summary
II. Recommendations
To the Government of the Russian Federation
To Russia’s International Partners
To the Council of Europe
III. Methodology
IV. Background: How the Conflict in Ingushetia Has Unfolded
Note on Ingushetia
Crisis Spillover to Crisis Nexus: The Unfolding Conflict in Ingushetia
General Characteristics of Insurgents in Ingushetia, Links to Chechnya
V. Domestic Legal Framework for Counterterrorism
2006 Norms
Structure of Counterterrorism Operations
Other Laws Amended by Counterterrorism Legislation
VI. Extrajudicial Executions
Killing of Islam Belokiev
Killing of Apti Dalakov
Killing of Rakhim Amriev, age 6
Killing of Said-Magomed Galaev and Ruslan Galaev
Killing of Khusein Mutaliev
Killing of Adam Gardanov and Magamed Chakhkiev
Attempted killing of Adam Malsagov
VII. Abductions, Enforced Disappearances, and Torture
Abductions and Enforced Disappearances
Abductions and Torture
Abductions
VIII. Special Operations Involving Cruel and Degrading Treatment
Sweep operation, Gairbek-Yurt
Targeted raid, Ordzhonikidzevskaya
Targeted raid, Surkhakhi
Sweep operation, Ali-Yurt
IX. Public Protests and Response of the Authorities
Evolution of the Protest Movement in Ingushetia
Government Efforts to Restrict Public Protests
Acknowledgments
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