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THREAD: Here's a list of some of the Chechens who have been assassinated outside Chechnya/Russia in recent years, starting with Mamikhan Umarov who was shot dead in Vienna on Saturday. The fourth hit job on a Chechen this year *inside the EU* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/they-find-you-and-shoot-you-chechens-in-fear-after-third-kadyrov-critic-killed
In Feb this year, anti-Kadyrov blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov was attacked in Sweden. He fought off the attacker.
“They have my mother,” said the attacker.
Kadyrov's no 2 had publicly declared "blood feud" on Tumso. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/chechen-blogger-escapes-assassination-bid-in-poland
“They have my mother,” said the attacker.
Kadyrov's no 2 had publicly declared "blood feud" on Tumso. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/chechen-blogger-escapes-assassination-bid-in-poland
In January, blogger Imran Aliev was found stabbed in the neck in a hotel room in Lille, France.
“He was murdered especially cruelly". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/outspoken-chechen-blogger-found-murdered-in-lille
“He was murdered especially cruelly". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/outspoken-chechen-blogger-found-murdered-in-lille
Last August, Zelimkhan Khagoshvili shot dead in Berlin's Kleiner Tiergarten. German government says Russian authorities behind it, and @bellingcat have done great work identifying the killer and links to Russian special forces https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/28/russia-denies-ordering-assassination-of-zelimkhan-khangoshvili-chechen-exile-in-berlin
After that hit I wrote this on Chechens living in fear in Europe, many of whom who have escaped Kadyrov's torture chambers: beatings, electric shocks and the grimly ingenious "salt torture". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/21/chechnya-death-squads-europe-ramzan-kadyrov
Amina Okuyeva killed and her husband Adam Osmayev injured in a shooting in Ukraine, where they had fought against Russia. They had fought off a previous attempt by a hitman disguised as a Le Monde journalist. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/31/russia-blamed-for-attack-on-chechen-couple-who-fought-with-ukrainian-forces
Abdulvakhid Edelgireyev, killed in 2016 in Istanbul.
"They beat me, and tortured me with electric shocks. They attached wires to my fingers and feet and wound up this machine with a handle, like from an old film,” his father told me. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/10/murder-istanbul-chechen-kremlin-russia-abdulvakhid-edelgireyev
"They beat me, and tortured me with electric shocks. They attached wires to my fingers and feet and wound up this machine with a handle, like from an old film,” his father told me. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/10/murder-istanbul-chechen-kremlin-russia-abdulvakhid-edelgireyev
3 Chechens killed in Istanbul in 2011 by a duo that sound like early echo of Petrov/Boshirov:
"Two days before the murder they were asking around for a place to wash their car; they said they wanted somewhere that would do a really good, thorough job." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/one-of-the-killers-shot-at-the-bodies-on-the-ground-then-calmly-drove-away-2367375.html
"Two days before the murder they were asking around for a place to wash their car; they said they wanted somewhere that would do a really good, thorough job." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/one-of-the-killers-shot-at-the-bodies-on-the-ground-then-calmly-drove-away-2367375.html
These are just the hits over the past decade that I wrote pieces on, there were others in other places: Vienna 2009, Dubai, Moscow.
Some of them, especially targets in Turkey, were involved in the insurgency, and the attacks were kind of like a manual version of US drone strikes
Some of them, especially targets in Turkey, were involved in the insurgency, and the attacks were kind of like a manual version of US drone strikes
Others were simply critics of Kadyrov who had received asylum and hoped they would be free from threats inside the EU.
Nobody thinks that any more, and with four attacks in the last year, it seems like a new drive to kill Kadyrov critics in Europe has begun.... END
Nobody thinks that any more, and with four attacks in the last year, it seems like a new drive to kill Kadyrov critics in Europe has begun.... END