" The Chechen Prime Minister Kadyrov prohibits the visit of President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture in the alleged illegal detention of Tsentoroi "
That in Chechnya 's Russian army had been guilty of acts of violence and brutal, it is a fact known for some time, but nobody seemed to expect that the Chechen Prime Minister Kadyrov could even deny Mauro Palma, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) the legitimate right to visit the alleged clandestine detention center in Tsentoroi, known as the "village of horrors ", and indicated by numerous witnesses as a place of illegal detention and torture. Regularly accompanied by the Russian army, the delegation was stopped at the gates of the capital Grozny. The incident, which occurred last May and in an environment shaped by the same Palm "unprecedented and very serious", was resolved only after the intervention of the President of the Republic of Chechnya Alu Alkhanov, which has allowed international inspectors to see for themselves what happened and is happening in the "middle ground" often too little known to the news. Kadyrov, in addition to being Prime Minister of Chechnya, also deals with the role of commander of the paramilitary forces known as the Kadirov (special groups designated as responsible for killings, intimidation and scomparizioni both the civilian population who are Chechen separatists). Known as a "Putin with an iron fist," the captain has never made any secret of preferring methods Spartans to the channels of democracy, and this characteristic has certainly helped in choosing the place of Russian President Putin at the summit of the war on Chechen separatism. The murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has always been at the forefront in defending human rights, in circumstances still not entirely clear, it shows once again the authoritarian character of Putin's system, which is characterized by its own in Chechnya violence and intransigence. The impunity with which the Russian troops have in committing ordinary acts of violence, lies in the general bank of the Russian government. Confirmation, if proof were needed, it arrived on time, before, with the release for good conduct "of the Russian Colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted for the kidnapping and strangulation of an eighteen year old Chechen and have covered numerous acts of torture 'Russian army against the local population, and later, with the mysterious murder of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova collaborator' Novaya Gazeta '. E 'Markelov was likely the main goal, "accidentally" main opposition to the liberation of Budanov. The application of human rights in Chechnya still seems rather far away as in other parts of the world, but the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture seems to want to continue on his way, convinced that his main task is not so much to report, "how to find ways to cooperate both with the local authorities with the Russian"
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