Ingushetia doubts that killed Galaev brothers were militants

On September 27, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia reported about a special operation conducted in Sagopshi settlement of the Malgobek District, as a result of which brothers Said-Magomed and Ruslan Galaev, active participants of illegal armed formations, were assassinated. Their third brother was detained. Human rights activists of Ingushetia assert that the brothers had nothing to do with militants and suffered only because they professed Wahhabism.

Deputy of the National assembly of Ingushetia Bamatgiri Mankiev, a member of the commission for investigation of human rights violations, has reported that early in the morning a group of special agents rushed into House No. 77 in the Oskanova Street, where the Galaev family lived: "One of Galaev brothers - Ruslan, 20, was shot dead right in his bed, and the other one - Said, 22, was murdered in the yard. The guy was probably trying to escape."

The special agents left having taken away Tagir, 26, the senior brother of the victims, his wife and mother. According to the deputy, while leaving, the fighters shelled the Galaevs' house from tubular grenade launchers. "Nobody knows where the detained Galaevs are kept, and the bodies of the killed brothers have not been given out for burial," Mr Mankiev said. According to the deputy, his appeals to the local law enforcement bodies gave no result: "The Malgobek District Militia Department knew nothing about the special operation in Sagopshi, local militiamen arrived to the incident venue when they heard weapon shots and wondered about there as gapers."

Bamatgiri Mankiev has informed that Sagopshi residents, indignant by the actions of the federal actions, are going to hold a protest action in Malgobek. "The Galaev brothers had no attitude to bandit formations, they worked all day long at the construction site and visited the mosque," the deputy has stated. According to his story, the Galaev brothers could have been entered into the black list because of professing Wahhabism, but they did nothing illegal.