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BERLIN (AFP) - According to two major Germen newspapers reports, Russian troops are committing massive war crimes in Chechnya with the knowledge of their military commanders who are covering up their acts.
The Frankfurter Rundschau and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, carrying out a joint investigation, said Russian troops were killing and torturing civilians and systematically looting the country. The two papers said documents of the transitional administration set up in the breakaway Islamic republic by President Vladimir Putin showed that civilians were being arbitrarily arrested and killed. Press reports cited the case of a young woman resident of Grozny who was shot dead in a bus on September 25th by Russian soldiers on a rampage. The German papers also said Russian officers were also involved in robbery and in illegal traffic of Chechen oil and metal resources. Tons of newly installed and highly expensive aluminum electrical power equipment has been stolen by the Russian military. According to a Chechen government report, the financial loss to the energy sector from such practices in the first six months of this year alone amounted to $2 billion. The papers also quoted a Russian military command report stating the Russian military was involved in sabotaging the reconstruction of the Chechen oil industry. In the month of September alone, Russian military helicopters shot up and set ablaze several oil wells, the document reportedly said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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