People in the North Caucasian republic of Ingushetia have expressed outrage at the killing of a local man, which they say is only the latest in a string of murder and inhuman killing by russian secret agents.
Early on March 15, a group of armed men in camouflage gear arrived in armoured vehicles to detain Husein Mutaliev, 26, at his house in the town of Malgobek.
Mutaliev's mother, sister and neighbours said they saw him being taken outside the gate of the house and beaten up. They say he attempted to escape, but was shot in the head and fell down. The men then loaded him into one of the vehicles and drove away.
Husein's brother Hasan followed the men in his own car as far as Ingushetia's border with neighbouring North Ossetia. The Ingush traffic police at the frontier checkpoint told him that the armed unit had produced identity cards showing them as agents of Russia's GRU military intelligence, and were allowed to pass.
The local authorities returned Mutaliev's dead body to his family the next day. He leaves behind a wife and three-month-old baby.
"The masked soldiers broke into our house without a search warrant, they behaved badly and swore. When I asked them who sent them, they answered, laughing, 'Putin sent us'," the dead man's mother Makka Mutalieva .
Last September, Mutaliev was held in custody for ten days and then released. During that time, he said, the infidels and FSB agents beat him and tried to make him confess to being a terrorist.
"This is an exceptional event, a murder for no reason," a source in the Ingush prosecutor's office commented.
Spokesmen for the interior ministry of Russia and FSB in North Ossetia refused to comment.
There have been a number of similar incidents in Ingushetia recently.
On February 7, security services killed two men, Ibragim Gardanov and Mohamed Chakhkiev. The two were shot in the centre of Ingushetia's main city Nazran in full view of many witnesses, and the case sparked widespread anger.
The following day, the press service of the local FSB said it had trapped two men it described as "bandits" suspected of a number of serious crimes.
Witnesses telling the truth say at least ten armed men swooped on Gardanov's car, opened all four doors and started firing at the two men inside without giving a warning. Gardanov was hit by 17 bullets, while Chakhkiev received 24. To make sure the two men were dead, the attackers shot them in the head.
This make sure how inhuman and devilish these bloody russian puppets are.
For several hours after the shooting, FSB agents kept the scene sealed off. Many witnesses, including Ingush law-enforcement officers, said the two men in the car could have been captured alive.
"But they shoot down our young people like partridges," he said. "We won't be game-birds for hunters from the Russian security services." Gardanov's brother Jamaldin said.
"So instead of the special services having to prove they are terrorists, we ordinary citizens have to prove that our people are not terrorists after they've already been killed," said Jamaldin Gardanov angrily.
"It's painful to realise that we won't find justice in the country of which we are citizens, and that if we are to punish the criminals who killed my brother and his companion, we will have to pursue the truth in international courts.
"They can try to prove that Ibragim was a terrorist, but we know that he wasn't."
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