Mothers of missing Dagestanis decide to set up public movement

Relatives of missing residents of Dagestan have no intent to stop their protests until they receive information about the fate of their missing relatives. The women-participants of the rally in Khasavyurt have called on all women of the Caucasus to unite against kidnappings and extrajudicial executions of their children and husbands.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported the today's protest action in Khasavyurt gathered women who were holding photos of missing relatives. The action was attended by about 120 women, who demanded from the authorities and law enforcement bodies to report the whereabouts of their missing relatives.

On October 4, it became known that relatives of Dagestani residents Gashim Uzdanov, Pakhrudin Makhaev, Islam Magomedov, and Shamil Djamalutdinov appealed to the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and asked for assistance in establishing the whereabouts of the disappeared men. Starting from October 5, they held a number of protest actions in Makhachkala, demanding from the authorities to inform them about the whereabouts of their relatives, who disappeared on September 27.

"We'll not stop and won't sit at home until we know where our children are. We'll get united now – all those who lost their children – and go on fighting together for our children," Aminat Djamaludinova, the mother of the missing Kamil Djamaludinov, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In the course of the today's protest action in Khasavyurt it was decided to organize a public movement, uniting mother of missing young people; and a resolution-appeal was adopted addressed to the leadership of the Russian   Federation. Its authors demand an "the immediate release of all the kidnapped persons" and "to give the full information on the whereabouts of all the missing young people," as well as "to bring to criminal justice all those involved in kidnappings, and all the organizers of "torture cells" and "death squads".

"We hereby appeal to all mothers. If you have sons, brothers and husbands, and you think you'll escape this problem, you are sadly mistaken! We thought so too! Only together we, women of Dagestan and the Caucasus, can stop this plague, which originates from power agents," says the resolution.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.