Leader of Ingushetia orders to give out militants' bodies to families

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, ordered to cancel the ban on giving out bodies of killed members of illegal armed formations to their relatives, to prevent people joining underground.

Evkurov announced the decision on giving out the bodies of killed militants to their relatives on July 5 at the meeting with participants of the camp "Mashuk-2011" in Pyatigorsk.

"I personally banned non-giving out the corpses of killed bandits. Give them out, let people bury them, we should prevent exasperation of the rest, people should understand," the RIA "Novosti" quotes Mr Evkurov's speech.

The practice to reject giving out the corpses of the militants killed in combat to in their relatives is in force in Russia in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Law "On burial and the funeral business". In 2007 the Constitutional Court declared these provisions to be constitutionally acceptable.

Mr Evkurov also said that the republic's authorities were ready to provide assistance to those families where the child had been a member of an illegal armed grouping and had been killed, the "Interfax" reports.

"Because now we need to understand: they are guilty, that is true, but the society, which allowed him to get into that circumstances, deserves much more blaming," added Mr Evkurov.