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[KavkazUel] At least 80 residents of Chechnya were kidnapped after a car with a DUSTUM license plate was set on fire; volunteers managed to establish the names of a number of them. In the village of Starye Atagi, Urus-Martan district, about 50 members of the family of Sayf-Islam Elmurzaev, who is suspected of setting fire to a car, were kidnapped, and about 30 people were kidnapped in the Shalinsky district, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported*. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in Grozny an unknown person set fire to a car with a DUSTUM license plate and the inscription K13 on the door. A resident of the Chechen capital was detained on suspicion of arson; he surrendered himself after the abduction of his family, the opposition Chechen telegram channel reported. Analysts interviewed by the Caucasian Knot supported the opinion that the car is connected with the son of the head of Chechnya, Adam Kadyrov. They believe that the recent mass abductions in the Shali region are related to the arson of a car.
A telegram channel opposed to the authorities of Chechnya reported on May 7 about raids in the Olimpiysky residential area, where a car was set on fire, and searches and checks of residents of the complex. The telegram channel also reported on mass detentions of people in the Shalinsky district; as of May 7, about 30 people were detained. The Telegram channel lists the names of some of them.
Volunteers from the Human Rights Protection Center "Memorial"* interviewed local residents. Sources confirmed that between May 6 and May 14, security forces in Chechnya abducted from 80 to 90 people; only some of them were identified, the Human Rights Protection Center reported today person "Memorial"*.
At least six people were kidnapped in the village of Goyskoye, Urus-Martan district. One of them is Arbi Borchashvili. Previously, he was forcibly sent to a war zone in Ukraine, he was wounded and returned home in 2023.
In Gudermes, security forces kidnapped Abubakar Tsakaev, and in the Ippodromny microdistrict of Grozny, Dzhabrail Dauthadzhiev, who, according to the mentioned telegram channel, wore the same jacket as the car arsonist.
On May 9, security forces kidnapped about 50 members of the Elmurzaev family from the village of Starye Atagi, Urus-Martan district. Among those abducted are elderly people and women, including the pregnant sister of Sayf-Islam Elmurzaev - he, according to our sources, is considered the main suspect in the arson. It is reported that at first, Saif-Islam’s relatives were taken as hostages, but the kidnappings continued after his “detention.” Elmurzaev’s mother was in Ukraine under a civilian work contract. She was also returned home and detained.
Members of the Elmurzaev family from the village of Starye Atagi, who were abducted and held for more than a week, have been released. They are under house arrest, another telegram channel opposition to the Chechen authorities reported today.
According to information received by volunteers of the Memorial Center, in the city of Shali, security forces kidnapped more than 30 people. The Telegram channel in opposition to the authorities of Chechnya reported that 37 people were kidnapped in Shali. All those abducted, according to human rights activists, were taken to Grozny to the security department .
On May 13, information was received that those abducted from Shali, with the exception of four, were transferred to the police department in the Shali district. Yusuf Akhmadov, Umar Aliyev, Ruslan Ebishev and Abdusalam (surname unknown) were left in Grozny. It also became known that the security forces took a hunting shotgun from the house of one of them, sawed off the barrel and butt of this gun and charged the stolen person with possession and manufacture of firearms, according to a message on the center’s website.
On May 11, another resident of Shali, Dzhabrail Javatkhanov, was kidnapped. Relatives are being demanded to return home their brother Dzhabrail, who is in one of the European countries.
Human rights activists noted that they could not confirm that the death of a young man, whose body was found on May 7 in the Shali district, was connected with the car arson. There is also no confirmation of the connection between the arson and the abduction on May 5 in Grozny of two young people - natives of the city of Shali and the village of Agishty, Vedeno district. The two abductions are likely unrelated to the car arson and occurred before the video was released, the report said.
In Chechnya, the call sign “Dostum” and the number “K13” are secretly reserved for people related to Adam Kadyrov, an employee of the “Memorial” Center for the Protection of Human Rights confirmed information to the “ Caucasian Knot ” correspondent on May 14 in a telegram channel.
There is indirect confirmation of the connection between cars with DUSTUM license plates and Adam Kadyrov. For example, on April 28, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published information about the open tactical shooting competition “Our People,” which took place at the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes. Second place in the competition was taken by the “Dostum” squad of the head of the security department of the head of the Chechen Republic, Adam Kadyrov, said the head of the republic.
In February 2023, a video with Adam Kadyrov was published in the telegram channel “Adviser KRA”. On his jacket on the right there is a patch with the inscription DUSTUM Adam Kadyrov wore a cap with a DUSTUM badge when he demonstrated his shooting skills to a delegation from Guinea-Bissau, a video about which was published by Ramzan Kadyrov on May 10.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that on September 25, 2023, Ramzan Kadyrov published a video recording of his son Adam beating Nikita Zhuravel in a pre-trial detention center. The head of Chechnya praised his son for this act. After this, Adam Kadyrov received the title of Hero of Chechnya and the highest state awards of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria, and in total at least nine state and public awards.
In November 2023, the 18-year-old son of the head of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, was appointed Deputy Minister for Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the republic. A position of this level cannot be held by a person without completed higher education; this restriction is established by republican law, lawyers interviewed by the Caucasian Knot indicated.
In February 2024, Akhmat Kadyrov was appointed Minister of Youth Affairs of Chechnya. He was also awarded the highest award of the republic. And on April 28, Kadyrov announced the appointment of Adam as curator of the Russian Special Forces University . According to him, this was done at the request of the head of the university, Baibetar Vaikhanov.
On November 5, 2023, it became known that Adam Kadyrov, shortly before his 16th birthday, was appointed head of the security department of the head of the republic. This appointment does not correlate well with labor legislation for teenagers and only emphasizes the hereditary principle of the formation of power in the republic, lawyers, security officials and human rights activists pointed out. For Adam Kadyrov, this is a test of his ability to lead Chechnya after his father, they suggested.
Ramzan Kadyrov is building a management system in Chechnya based on family and personal ties, and strives to demonstrate the success of his children in their careers, and the new appointment of his daughter Khadizhat was no exception, noted analysts interviewed by the Caucasian Knot.
Years of leadership of Chechnya allowed Ramzan Kadyrov to build a total family cult. Leadership positions, key positions, awards and names in honor of relatives - all this confirms the course towards the “Akhmatization” of Chechnya. How Kadyrov makes himself and his relatives idols is described in the “Caucasian Knot” reference “ In the name of father and son: how the cult of the Kadyrovs is being implanted in Chechnya.
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