Crimea: Disappeared Man Found Killed

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Crimea: Disappeared Man Found Killed

Urgent Investigation Needed

(Simferopol) – Crimean authorities should urgently conduct a thorough investigation into the enforced disappearance and subsequent killing of Reshat Ametov, a Crimean Tatar from the Simferopol region, and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Ametov’s relatives told Human Rights Watch that he was last seen during a protest on March 3, 2014, on Lenin Square in Simferopol, Ukraine, where three unidentified men in military-style jackets had led him away. Relatives’ efforts to locate him, including through a complaint to the police, were unsuccessful. On March 16, local police informed them that a body bearing marks of violent death had been found outside the town of Belogorsk. On March 17, the family identified the body as Ametov’s.

“The disappearance and murder of Reshat Ametov illustrates the climate of lawlessness that has been pervasive in Crimea over the last week,” said Rachel Denber, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Crimean authorities have a duty to thoroughly investigate this case and punish those responsible, whoever they are.”

Ametov, a 39-year-old seasonal construction worker and the father of three young children, was well known in the Crimean Tatar community. Ametov had regularly petitioned local authorities regarding problems in his neighborhood and discussed on his Facebook page issues related to the situation of Crimean Tatars and the future of Crimea, a relative told Human Rights Watch.

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http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/18/crimea-disappeared-man-found-killed

Ukraine officer 'killed in attack on Crimea base'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024684903

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1. I'm sure the savvy investigative journalists of Russia Today

will get to the bottom of this.

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t

[EmilyAnne]

3. Mysterious murders of ethnic minorities?

Yep. Sounds like Crimea is part of Russia!

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4. K&R

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5. Kick! n/t

[Excelsyor]

6. All Russia has to do is say he was a suspected terrorist

It works for the US. Nobody has gone to jail for killing a person with a drone without proving he/she was a terrorist in a court of law.

Alternative, Russia could say they killed him by mistake, like Awlaki's son. There is no penalty for that either.

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7. In the U.S.

"All Russia has to do is say he was a suspected terrorist

It works for the US. Nobody has gone to jail for killing a person with a drone without proving he/she was a terrorist in a court of law. "

...suspected criminals/terrorists are put on trial. Still, let me understand, you would support this argument as long as Putin is making it?

Russian Federation: Prisoner of conscience beaten in court: Aleksey Polikhovich
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR46/016/2014/en

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8. Kick! n/t

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9. K/r nt