Mothers in Kabardino-Balkaria ask the gunmen to return home

In Kabardino-Balkaria where there is no Committee for adaptation of gunmen to peaceful life yet mothers of the participants of the underground decided to act on their own and prepared a video message to their sons asking them to surrender arms and come back home.

On August, 9, mothers Raya Shamaeva, Galimat Lampezheva, Firuza Guketlova, Elena Kachkarova, Rita Lyauzheva and Janna Ulbasheva appealed to the “Caucasian Knot” asking to record and place at its web-site their video message to their sons who have been in search as participants of paramilitary groups (PMG): some of them for a year, some others for three, and are accused of illegal bearing arms and other crimes.

The video message was recorded in the office of Republican Human Rights Center at 10 o’clock in the morning, August, 10. The mothers state that they decided to do it without anyone’s pressure. “Nobody enforced us: neither Federal Security Service nor the police”, Raya Shamaeva, one of the mothers, says in the message. She emphasizes that mothers would never reject their children.

“We remind you that you have an obligation to your mothers, - the message runs. – We ask you to come back to us, to your families and your children”.

Before recording the message the mothers had a meeting with Minister of Interior Affairs of KBR Sergey Vasiliev and President of KBR Arsen Kanokov who guaranteed them that in case if their sons come to law enforcement bodies on their own free will no wrongful methods of investigation would be used and the investigation and trial would go in complete accordance with the law.