Suspected skinheads attack three Caucasians in Moscow
Agence France Presse — English
August 5, 2006 Saturday 10:00 PM GMT
MOSCOW, Aug 5 2006 — A group of suspected skinheads attacked three
residents of Russia’s Caucasian republic of Dagestan in a suburban
Moscow train, Russian news agencies reported late Saturday.
“Two Dagestanis were hospitalised in a serious condition, another one
was allowed to go home,” police sources were quoted by the ITAR-TASS
news agency as saying.
Police were questioning witnesses and searching for the culprits,
the sources said.
Recognisable Russian ethnic minorities — especially Chechens and
other Caucasians — as well as Armenians, Roma gypsies and Jews,
and foreign nationals such as Africans and Asians, have increasingly
been targeted in racist attacks.
Although a string of murders by skinheads has grabbed the headlines,
human rights campaigners also accuse Russian security forces and
semi-official law enforcement militias of routine abuses and point
to a climate of near-impunity.
Crimes against foreigners in Russia have risen by 33 percent this year
compared with the same period in 2005, with 6,000 crimes registered
against foreigners and non-citizens, the interior ministry has
announced.
Rights defenders reported that ethnic hatred motivated 18 murders
and 129 attacks this year.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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