Nalchik commemorates victims of the militants’ attack on Kabardino-Balkaria last October.
Photo: Evgeny Kayudin
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Three Rallies in Nalchik Mark Anniversary of Terrorist Attack
Nalchik has commemorated victims of the militants’ attack on Kabardino-Balkaria last October. United Russia’s local office staged a rally against terrorism while relatives of the killed militants gathered by the prosecutor’s office, demanding that bodies of the dead be given to them.
Kabardino-Balkaria’s Prime Minister Andrey Yarin and top officials met on Friday relatives of 35 policemen who died in the October 13 attack last year. The republic’s interior minister Yury Tomchak assured that the investigation on the attack would be over by February.
Former Interior Minister Khachim Shogenov also spoke about the trial: “The court will decide what happened last year. Don’t have any illusions that those people went out to the streets just to play around with arms. The militants used them against their people. They wanted to shatter Kabardino-Balkaria.” The republic’s FSB head mentioned that the terrorist underground had not been eliminated altogether while others try to make the events look a “justified national protest against religious infringements.”
A rally against terrorism staged by the local United Russia began with a minute of silence. The rally gathered 5,000 people who signed a declaration calling on the republic’s people to come together to fight terrorism.
Meanwhile, people were rallying in another protest action in Nalchik. 92 relatives of the killed militants gathered by the local Prosecutor General’s Office to demand that authorities give them the bodies of the militants. These people pin their hopes on the trial of the survived militants. “If the defendants are found not guilty of terrorism, the law on terrorism which prohibits us to buy our relatives will be invalid,” a woman from the rallying crowd told Kommersant.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 14, 2006
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