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Islamist Motive For Killing Slain Russian Opposition Leader Nemtsov Is Nonsense, Allies Say
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/nemtsov-killing-motive_n_6830086.html?utm_hp_ref=world
MOSCOW, March 9 (Reuters) - Suggestions that Russian politician Boris
Nemtsov was killed by Chechen Islamists are nonsense designed to deflect
suspicion from President Vladimir Putin, associates of the slain opposition
figure said on Monday.
Investigators have charged two men, including a former Chechen police
official, over the shooting of Nemtsov within sight of the Kremlin walls on
Feb. 27. Three more men have been arrested, and another blew himself up late on
Saturday as police in Chechnya tried to detain him, Russian media said.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said the charged ex-policeman, Zaur Dadayev, was
a pious Muslim who had been angered by publication of caricatures of the Prophet
Mohammad in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Nemtsov had condemned an attack on Charlie Hebdo in which Islamist militants
killed 12 people in January. But friends reject this as a motive, saying they
do not believe Islamist gunmen acting alone could have shot him dead in one of
the most closely guarded areas of central Moscow unless they had powerful and
well-connected backers.
These associates believe it was Putin who stood to gain from his killing,
though Russian officials have denied involvement and the president has called
it a shameful tragedy.
"Our worst fears are coming true," Ilya Yashin, the co-leader of
Nemtsov's small liberal opposition party, said on Twitter late on Sunday.
"The trigger man will be blamed, while those who actually ordered
Nemtsov's killing will go free."
"Investigators' nonsensical theory about Islamist motives in Nemtsov's
killing suits the Kremlin and takes Putin out of the firing line," Yashin
added on Monday.
Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, was shot in the back
four times as he walked home with his girlfriend after dining next to Red
Square. He was the most prominent of a string of Kremlin critics to be killed
during Putin's 15 years in power.
Dadayev and four other suspects, all ethnic Chechens, appeared in a Moscow
court on Sunday.
"This is an attempt to find a motive that masks the main aim: getting
rid of one of the leaders of the opposition," Vladimir Ryzhkov, a
prominent Putin opponent, told Ekho Moskvy radio station. "I am sure that
there are much more high-ranking people mixed up in this."
MODEL FIGHTER
Dadayev was a former deputy commander of the Chechen police's
"Sever" (North) battalion which fought Islamist rebels in the region,
where Russia has waged two wars to defeat separatists since the Soviet Union
collapsed in 1991.
Dadayev's mother told Reuters her son could not have killed Nemtsov, and was
being set up.
"He served his so-called motherland for 12 years. They threw him into
the toughest areas, into the mountains to fight insurgents. He was a model
fighter with a heap of state medals," Aimani Dadayeva told Reuters by
telephone.
"And for them (the authorities) to use him for their own ends and to
accuse him so harshly? ... I don't want anybody to use us for their own
ends," she said, in tears.
Russian media reported on Sunday that police tried to detain another suspect
at an apartment block in Chechnya's capital, Grozny. The suspect threw one
grenade at police, then used a second to blow himself up, the reports said.
Nemtsov was not widely popular in Russia outside the small, urban
intelligentsia. But his supporters say he was a threat to the Kremlin because
he was determined to expose official corruption and deceit.
In the days before he was killed, he was working on a report which, aides
said, would allege that Russia was sending regular troops to fight in eastern
Ukraine.
Moscow has denied any direct involvement in the fighting.
Prosecutors have charged Dadayev and another man, Anzor Gubashev, with
involvement in Nemtsov's killing, and officials say Dadayev has admitted
involvement. The three others who appeared in court have not been charged so
far.
Chechen leader Kadyrov, who is loyal to Putin, said he knew Dadayev and
described him as a true patriot.
"All who know Zaur confirm that he is a deep believer and also that he,
like all Muslims, was shocked by the activities of Charlie (Hebdo) and comments
in support of printing the cartoons," Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram
account.
Nemtsov had defended the French magazine. He argued that Muslim clerics in
Russia who had said it was wrong to print the cartoons were, in effect,
justifying terrorism, and said prosecutors should investigate the clerics.
(Additional reporting by Jason Bush and Thomas Grove; Editing by Mark
Trevelyan)
Islamist Motive For Killing Slain Russian Opposition
Leader Nemtsov Is Nonsense, Allies Say
Leader Nemtsov Is Nonsense, Allies Say
Reuters
Posted: 03/09/2015 8:11 am EDT Updated:
03/09/2015 3:59 pm ED
By Christian Lowe and Vladimir Soldatkin03/09/2015 3:59 pm ED
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/nemtsov-killing-motive_n_6830086.html?utm_hp_ref=world
MOSCOW, March 9 (Reuters) - Suggestions that Russian politician Boris
Nemtsov was killed by Chechen Islamists are nonsense designed to deflect
suspicion from President Vladimir Putin, associates of the slain opposition
figure said on Monday.
Investigators have charged two men, including a former Chechen police
official, over the shooting of Nemtsov within sight of the Kremlin walls on
Feb. 27. Three more men have been arrested, and another blew himself up late on
Saturday as police in Chechnya tried to detain him, Russian media said.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said the charged ex-policeman, Zaur Dadayev, was
a pious Muslim who had been angered by publication of caricatures of the Prophet
Mohammad in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Nemtsov had condemned an attack on Charlie Hebdo in which Islamist militants
killed 12 people in January. But friends reject this as a motive, saying they
do not believe Islamist gunmen acting alone could have shot him dead in one of
the most closely guarded areas of central Moscow unless they had powerful and
well-connected backers.
These associates believe it was Putin who stood to gain from his killing,
though Russian officials have denied involvement and the president has called
it a shameful tragedy.
"Our worst fears are coming true," Ilya Yashin, the co-leader of
Nemtsov's small liberal opposition party, said on Twitter late on Sunday.
"The trigger man will be blamed, while those who actually ordered
Nemtsov's killing will go free."
"Investigators' nonsensical theory about Islamist motives in Nemtsov's
killing suits the Kremlin and takes Putin out of the firing line," Yashin
added on Monday.
Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, was shot in the back
four times as he walked home with his girlfriend after dining next to Red
Square. He was the most prominent of a string of Kremlin critics to be killed
during Putin's 15 years in power.
Dadayev and four other suspects, all ethnic Chechens, appeared in a Moscow
court on Sunday.
"This is an attempt to find a motive that masks the main aim: getting
rid of one of the leaders of the opposition," Vladimir Ryzhkov, a
prominent Putin opponent, told Ekho Moskvy radio station. "I am sure that
there are much more high-ranking people mixed up in this."
MODEL FIGHTER
Dadayev was a former deputy commander of the Chechen police's
"Sever" (North) battalion which fought Islamist rebels in the region,
where Russia has waged two wars to defeat separatists since the Soviet Union
collapsed in 1991.
Dadayev's mother told Reuters her son could not have killed Nemtsov, and was
being set up.
"He served his so-called motherland for 12 years. They threw him into
the toughest areas, into the mountains to fight insurgents. He was a model
fighter with a heap of state medals," Aimani Dadayeva told Reuters by
telephone.
"And for them (the authorities) to use him for their own ends and to
accuse him so harshly? ... I don't want anybody to use us for their own
ends," she said, in tears.
Russian media reported on Sunday that police tried to detain another suspect
at an apartment block in Chechnya's capital, Grozny. The suspect threw one
grenade at police, then used a second to blow himself up, the reports said.
Nemtsov was not widely popular in Russia outside the small, urban
intelligentsia. But his supporters say he was a threat to the Kremlin because
he was determined to expose official corruption and deceit.
In the days before he was killed, he was working on a report which, aides
said, would allege that Russia was sending regular troops to fight in eastern
Ukraine.
Moscow has denied any direct involvement in the fighting.
Prosecutors have charged Dadayev and another man, Anzor Gubashev, with
involvement in Nemtsov's killing, and officials say Dadayev has admitted
involvement. The three others who appeared in court have not been charged so
far.
Chechen leader Kadyrov, who is loyal to Putin, said he knew Dadayev and
described him as a true patriot.
"All who know Zaur confirm that he is a deep believer and also that he,
like all Muslims, was shocked by the activities of Charlie (Hebdo) and comments
in support of printing the cartoons," Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram
account.
Nemtsov had defended the French magazine. He argued that Muslim clerics in
Russia who had said it was wrong to print the cartoons were, in effect,
justifying terrorism, and said prosecutors should investigate the clerics.
(Additional reporting by Jason Bush and Thomas Grove; Editing by Mark
Trevelyan)
COMMENT:
There is no doubt that it had been done under the very
convenience and order of PUTIN .
convenience and order of PUTIN .
OK if he is so certain that others have done
the killing than why not a criminal investigation committee of International
community of nations be charged to investigate the killing.
the killing than why not a criminal investigation committee of International
community of nations be charged to investigate the killing.
If not then UN to order to
own selective impartial investigative journalist to go deep into the matter and
find out the real criminal with evidence.
own selective impartial investigative journalist to go deep into the matter and
find out the real criminal with evidence.
Until this murder by the Russian top
politician is proved with, hard evidence should continue.
politician is proved with, hard evidence should continue.
In addition, if Russian government
creates any obstruction through its security force would prove beyond any
shadow of doubt that Putin is the murderer.
creates any obstruction through its security force would prove beyond any
shadow of doubt that Putin is the murderer.
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