Dagestani Victim in Neo-Nazi Execution Video Identified?

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Dagestani Victim in Neo-Nazi Execution Video Identified?

Relatives of a missing Dagestani man have identified him as one of the victims of what appeared to be a neo-Nazi execution video posted last year, according to a June 4, 2008 report by the Kavkazsky Uzel web site. Kistaman Udamanov told police that her brother Shamil went missing in Moscow in mid-August of 2007. He had traveled to the capital to work earlier that summer and had been in regular contact with his family. Ms. Udamanov told police that she recognized her brother by face and by the clothes the victim is seen wearing in the video before he is supposedly murdered.

siehe auch: Skinhead Violence Rising in Russia. Beheadings posted on the Internet used to be a trademark of Chechen separatists in this part of the world. But on August 12 a video surfaced on several neo-Nazi Russian websites showing the brutal execution of two men from ethnic groups frequently targeted by Russia’s ultranationalists–one of whom had his head sawn off with what appeared to be a Russian army knife; Student Detained in Execution Video Posting. Police in the southern republic of Adygeya have detained a university student who admitted to posting a video on the Internet appearing to show the brutal execution of two men from Tajikistan and Dagestan, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday; Russennazis stellen Exekutions-Video ins Web. Journalisten entdeckten ein Internet-Video, dass zwei russische Neonazis zeigt, die zwei gefesselte Moslems töten. Die Behörden sind informiert und auf der Suche nach den Tätern.