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Chechnya Veteran Convicted of Hate Crimes Murder

A highly unusual trial concluded in the Russian internal republic of North Ossetiya with a veteran of the first Chechen war being convicted of hate crimes murder, according to an April 13, 2007 report by the national daily Kommersant. Convictions of Russian military personnel for atrocities committed in Chechnya are extremely rare, as are prosecutions of hate crimes murders. The case stems from an incident in 1994, the year the first Chechen war began. Stanislav Eloev was standing guard over North Ossetiya’s internal border when he ordered a car driven by two Chechen men to stop. When he found out where they were from, he allegedly murdered them in an apparent revenge attack motivated by the death of his brother and cousin in a clash with ethnic Ingush during the brief but intense conflict between both ethnic groups in 1991-92; both of his relatives had been deliberately burned to death by Ingush paramilitary fighters. Threatening the Chechens with his automatic rifle, the defendant allegedly forced them from their car, shot them dead, and then dug a pit to bury them in.

Amazingly, Mr. Eloev was detained by police and admitted to the killing, but when he claimed that he committed the murders in an emotionally unbalanced state, he was allowed to leave the station after signing a written undertaking not the leave town. He immediately left for the Stavropol region. For over a decade, Mr. Eloev hid in plain sight from a warrant for his arrest. He was a contract soldier fighting in Chechnya, where he was severely wounded, and then returned home, where he lived peacefully for several years until prosecutors decided out of the blue to arrest him a few months ago. Taking into account his medical condition and military service, the court sentenced Mr. Eloev to ten years in prison.

Source: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union. April 17, 2007

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