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  • Bigotry Monitor: Skinheads Kill Dagestani Couple, Attack Armenian

    Volume 5, Number 22
    Friday, June 3, 2005

    BIGOTRY MONITOR

    A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and
    Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

    EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
    (News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

    Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
    __________________________________________________ _________

    SKINHEADS KILL DAGESTANI COUPLE, ATTACK ARMENIAN. Skinheads in
    Astrakhan, Russia are stepping up their violent activities, according to
    the Committee for Cooperative Defense of Human Rights, a participating
    NGO in a European Commission sponsored project to monitor xenophobia in
    Russia. (UCSJ, the Moscow Helsinki Group, and the Moscow Bureau on Human
    Rights are the main grantees of the project.) According to the
    committee, in early May, a group of neo-Nazis burst into the apartment
    of a young Dagestani couple and stabbed them to death. The couple's
    two-year-old child had just stepped out onto the balcony and the
    skinheads did not notice him. He stayed in the apartment with his dead
    parents for two days before a neighbor heard him cry and called the
    police.

    In a separate incident, skinheads attacked an ethnic Armenian high
    school student on the street on May 10. Passersby alerted his family,
    but when his relatives tried to stop the beating, the skinheads beat
    them too. As a result of the violence, the student received enough head
    trauma that he does not remember the attack, and his father was put in
    the emergency room. Police arrived too late to make arrests.

    Police have started investigations into both attacks. No hate crimes
    charges have been filed.

    The Committee for Cooperative Defense of Human Rights also reported that
    the court case of a racist and abusive teacher is continuing. After
    parents of Caucasus origins complained that the teacher beat their
    children, tied them up, and gagged them in class, police investigated,
    but prosecutors refused to bring criminal charges against the teacher,
    who is now back on the job. However, thanks to the committee's efforts,
    a court ordered in May that a criminal case be opened. The teacher
    allegedly remains confident that she will not be punished and continues
    to voice her hatred of non-Russians.

    MOSCOW SKINHEADS SENTENCED FOR MURDER. A Moscow court sentenced one
    skinhead to six and a half years in prison and another to nine and a
    half years for the murder of an Azeri and a non-fatal stabbing of an
    Armenian, according to "Moskovsky Komsomolets" of May 25.

    On December 18, 2003 the neo-Nazis, then aged 15, accompanied a group of
    friends on a suburban Moscow train. Spotting an Armenian, the group
    surrounded him and beat him in front of dozens of witnesses. One of the
    defendants stabbed him in the back as he attempted to flee. Before they
    could kill him, the threats of passengers to call the police scared off
    the attackers. Two days later, the same skinheads murdered an Azeri,
    stabbing him multiple times on Podemnaya Street, near a dormitory where
    many migrants live.

    SKINHEADS ARRESTED FOR STABBING AZERI. In an incident on March 27 this
    year, two skinheads were arrested in the Moscow region in connection
    with the stabbing and beating of an Azeri man on a suburban train,
    according to "Moskovsky Komsomolets" of May 18. The crime took place
    when ten skinheads taking the Serpukhov-Podolsk train spotted the Azeri
    sitting alone. After splitting into two teams to ensure that other
    passengers would not interfere, the skinheads attacked, yelling "Russia
    for Russians!" One neo-Nazi stabbed the Azeri man several times, then
    handed the knife to another, who also stabbed the victim. They then
    broke a window and tried to throw the Azeri out of the train. But the
    Azeri continued to resist long enough for the skinheads to be spooked by
    threats by passengers to call the police.


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    Bigotry Monitor welcomes use of its contents without prior approval on
    the condition that full attribution is given to "Bigotry Monitor --
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