In an interview with the website Kavkazskaya Politika, Kabardino-Balkaria’s Deputy Interior Minister Kazbek Tatuev described the republic’s ongoing security dilemmas. According to the official, the underground movement in the republic is structured according to administrative divisions featuring an amir and his deputies (naibs) in each sector. Tatuev rejected accusations made by many rights activists of police brutality, saying that the police in the republic “never shoots first” at the rebels. Contrary to multiple accounts of witnesses and rights activists, the police official claimed that government forces always allow surrounded rebels to surrender. Among the most dubious aspects of Tatuev’s assertions …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation