Moscow Media Work to Cover Up Dangerous Trend: FSB Now Can Kill Muslims Once It Declares Them Terrorists, Eidman Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, April 13 – The Moscow media are working overtime to convince people that the killing of two Muslims in Tyumen was the result of a completely legitimate action against terrorists, especially given that local people have raised questions about what happened there already (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/04/what-really-happened-in-tyumen-counter.html).

            Now, Russian sociologist and commentator Igor Eidman says that in his view, what occurred in Tyumen is a repetition of what happened not long ago in Nizhny Novgorod, when, as journalist Irina Slavina reported, the FSB “killed random people and then declared them to be terrorists” (facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2336364326426533&id=100001589654713).

            In the earlier case, the security service didn’t even bother with “the imitation of an exchange of gunfire. They simply shot Muslims like wild dogs,” the commentator says. If the FSB were acting as a true counter-intelligence service, it would seek to arrest real terrorists so it could interrogate them and find leads on others.

            But in Russia today, it is more “advantageous” to FSB officers at least “to declare the believers terrorists, to imitate a battle and to kill them – and then to receive for this medals and promotions.”  After all, the bosses will be “satisfied as they’ve been ordered to ‘drown terrorists in the outhouse’” from the very top.

            This is the latest case of Chekists acting on the principle that “when you cut trees, the chips fly” and is a well-proven way to make a career, while “maintaining the historical traditions” of the Soviet and Russian security services, Eidman says.

            That is all very understandable, he continues, but what is unfortunate is that “liberal society (with rare exceptions) does not devote any attention to these ‘days of open murders.’ It is sufficient to declare an individual an Islamist terrorist and you can do anything with him with impunity.”

            At the same time, one cannot fail to recall the lesson of Pastor Niemoeller about the Nazis’ step-by-step moves against groups that Hitler hated. Under contemporary Russian conditions, his words can be updated to “Now they have come for the Muslims, but whom will they ‘liquidate’ tomorrow?”