Russian forces kill child and destroy house

Nazran/Agency Caucasus – The Russian forces of the army killed a six-year-old child and destroyed the family house in Ingushetia, a country that has been suffering from the forceful Russian bullying since last summer.

 

A child was killed in a fighting that occurred between the security forces and a group of resisters that hid in a house in the Chamulga village of Sunjen province, according to Ingushetia’s chief prosecutor Yuri Turigin. The child’s family, however, denied that there were any resisters in the house.

 

"As many as 40 military men surrounded my house early on Friday morning. They megaphoned us to go out. They broke in the house just before we were about to open the door. The four kids, my wife and I were all forced to lie down. They afterwards began firing right over our heads at the other rooms. When it was over, we found our six-year-old son, Rahim, lying dead. He was shot in the head," said the father Ramzan Amriyev. 

 

Amriyev’s wife, Luiza, added that the military men forced a group of 22 people wait for half an hour in cold weather with their bare feet and pajamas only on.    

 

Later on, the soldiers destroyed the house on the grounds that there was still a resister hiding in it. 

 

Turigin said that Amriyev is suspected of having a possible link to resisters and subject to police investigation. 

 

Neither the neighbors nor the villagers, however, agree with the chief prosecutor’s statements. 

 

Ramzan’s older brother, who is also the local administrator for the village, said that the military prosecutor threatened him with death unless he told the FSB forces that it was from the house that someone fired. (Agency Caucasus)