HRW report on rights violations in Ingushetia

Human Rights Watch publicou onte un informe de 111 páxinas sobre as violacións dos Direitos Humanos cometidas en operacións de contrainsurxencia na república de Ingushetia, pertencente á federación de Rusia.

O informe leva por título “As If They Fell From the Sky”: Counterinsurgency, Rights Violations, and Rampant Impunity in Ingushetia. Copio un extracto da súa introducción:

[...] Law enforcement and security forces involved in counterinsurgency have committed dozens of extrajudicial executions, summary and arbitrary detentions, and acts of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

These practices evoke, albeit on a far smaller scale, the thousands of enforced disappearances, killings, and acts of torture that plagued Chechnya for more than a decade. They are antagonizing local residents and serve to further destabilize the situation in Ingushetia and more widely in the North Caucasus. [...]

In a striking move to intimidate independent observers, 16 human rights advocates and journalists were variously abducted, detained, and expelled from Ingushetia by security forces as they attempted to monitor two planned public rallies in November 2007 and January 2008. [...]

Law enforcement and security forces responsible for human rights violations in Ingushetia are not brought to justice. [...]

Many of those who have sought justice as well as eyewitnesses to the abuses have been subjected to verbal and physical threats. [...]