Young Chechen residents went to Moscow to take part in riots

Several groups of young people from Grozny visited the Russian capital with the aim to support their relatives, friends and Caucasians in general, after mass riots out of national hatred burst out on December 11 in Manege Square in Moscow.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a resident of Grozny, the Chechen capital, who asked not to name him, that he "could not remain aside, knowing that his relatives and friends are under real danger."

After the events in Manege Square, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said that he prohibited Chechens to take part in any rioting in the streets of Russian cities. Last week, the head of the Republic expressed his gratitude to Diasporas in Russian cities for demonstrating their restraint and noted that his call to the Chechen youth "was heard."

"In Moscow on December 11 and later all the Caucasians were at great risk. All these so-called 'skinheads' and 'nationalists' attacked not only adults but schoolchildren either," a resident of Grozny said.

According to his story, in Moscow "Caucasians were brutally beaten right at the Red Square, while militiamen did not interfere, when skinheads made photos next to beaten guys of Caucasian appearance lying on the ground; they kicked them and raised by the hair".

"Caucasians were even afraid to let their children to school, because at any moment they could be attacked and brutally beaten. When my friends and I learned that on December 15 in Moscow Caucasian Diasporas decided to hold their rally, we decided to go there to support our relatives and friends, and in fact all the Caucasians; and we went there (to Moscow), but we were detained right at the station," the source has added. According to his story, seven more persons went with him to the Russian capital; but there were dozens of others.

He has noted that "he never heard that in Grozny, Nazran, Makhachkala, Nalchik, or, for example, in Cherkessk local youth organize pogroms and beat Russian-speaking citizens only because somewhere someone had killed their fellow countryman." "And moreover, I don't think that the militia here would have behaved like in Moscow: standing and watching people being beaten and maimed," the source has added.