Court requests statement about burial of militants' bodies in Kabardino-Balkaria

The Nalchik City Court has requested the statement about the burial of the persons who had perished as a result of the armed collision on October 13, 2005 in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria).

The statement dated May 15, 2006, signed by A. Savrulin, head of the investigatory group of the Central Department of the RF State Office of Public Prosecutor in the South Federal District (SFD), runs in particular that "in the course of the antiterrorist special operation to resist an attack" 95 militants were killed and that "all the forensic examinations, including molecular-genetic ones, relating to the study of the bodies of killed terrorists, were over, and the persons of each of them were established in the procedural order."

Meanwhile, along with 92 names listed in the document, three perished militants remained unidentified and were registered under numbers.

Further, the document runs that the statement was made on the basis of the Federal Law "On Burial and Funeral Business" No. 8-FZ, and of the Regulations approved by Statement of the RF Government of 26.03.06, No. 3164 "On Burial of the Persons Perished as a Result of Suppression of Terror Act Committed by Them," according to which "the burial of the persons, whose criminal prosecution has been stopped because of their death, shall be carried out in the place of their death by specialized services."

According to the document, "the Statement for Execution" was sent to the President of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

The relatives of the victims had appealed against the Statement to the court. The court has requested the Statement and the act about the undertaken burial from the Administration of the KBR's President.

Zalim Kashirokov, representative of the President of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Parliament and judicial bodies, has explained to the court session that a check of the incoming documents has shown that this document had never arrived to the address of the Republic's leadership.