Family identifies son in Russian beheading video

Family identifies son in Russian beheading video – International Herald Tribune

Shamil Odamanov used to call his parents almost daily from Moscow, where he worked as a laborer after moving from his village in Russia’s North Caucasus region in search of a better job. Then, a little more than a year ago, the phone calls stopped. Now, to the family’s horror, they think they know why. They have identified Odamanov, 24, as the man beheaded in a video of a double execution apparently carried out by members of a Russian neo-Nazi group last year. „It’s not only that he’s similar – it is him, period,“ Umakhan Odamanov, Shamil Odamanov’s father, said by telephone from his home in Dagestan, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus. Investigators have said that Odamanov is likely one of the two victims in the video, dark-skinned men who appear kneeling below a Nazi flag before they are killed. (…) Set against a soundtrack of heavy metal music, the video opens with the title „Operation of the National-Socialist Party of Russia to Arrest and Execute Two Colonists From Dagestan and Tajikistan.“ There are shots of the countryside that investigators believe is somewhere in the Kaluzhskaya region, about 75 kilometers, or 120 miles, southwest of Moscow. „We were arrested by National-Socialists,“ the two bound men mumble through their gags. In the next scene, one of the captors, wearing camouflage and heavy black gloves, yells, „Glory to Russia!“ then plunges what looks like a large knife into the neck of the man thought to be Odamanov. He is decapitated in seconds.

siehe auch: Russisches Nazi-Mordvideo ist echt. Ein russisches Internet-Video, auf dem die brutale Ermordung zweier Personen gezeigt wurde, ist echt. Das Video, das im August 2007 für Entsetzen sorgte, zeigte vermummte russische Rechtsextremisten vor einer Hakenkreuzfahne, die einen Menschen enthaupten und einen anderen mit einem Genickschuss ermorden.