Paul Goble
Staunton, June 29 – The murder of a
Chechen woman, most likely by her husband who works for the Russian siloviki, and
the cover up carried out by Ramzan Kadyrov and his regime including the forced
recantation of charges by the mother of the murdered woman continue to roil
Chechen society.
Grozny and Moscow may have assumed
that with the forced apology they could close the case (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/06/kadyrov-regime-works-hard-to-cover-up.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/06/another-bestial-kadyrov-crime-chechen.html), but especially
in the Internet age, they are wrong.
The Kavkaz-Uzel news agency reports
that in the first six hours after the mother’s recantation was posted online,
more than 27,200 people watched it, and 378 left commentaries, most expressing outrage
at what Kadyrov had done. Paraphrasing the words of one, the more you force
people to apologize, the less we believe you (kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/351389/).
Other critical posts attracted
equally negative commentaries about the Kadyrov regime and its brutality and
about the hated and it is now clear ineffective practice of making people
apologize. That practice and the anger
it has produced is documented in a new report by the International Crisis Group
(kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/264772/).
Indeed, the anger many Chechens feel
about this practice means that the case of the murdered young woman may be a
turning point in that republic, leading people not only to question the
policies of Kadyrov but increasingly willing to speak out against his thuggish
regime.
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