The massacre continues in Chechnya

Natalia Estemirova, a journalist and assistant of the Russian NGO Memorial, has been kidnapped and killed less than a month ago and today two more victims may be added to the long list of assassinations of state. No peace, therefore, no possibility of survival for the freedom of press in Russia.

Zarema Sadulaieva was responsible for the NGO "Save the Generation" and was charged yesterday, in the afternoon, with her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, from their organization office in Grozny. Armed men, strangers, dressed in black had taken them away without explanation and they had then returned only to take the phone and the car of Dzhabrailov. Precisely in that car Zarema and Alik were found this morning dead.
They were only 33 years old and with their non-governmental organization were seeking to help young people living in Chechnya to avoid ending up in the armed gangs: one of the few alternatives for survival. According to Aleksandr Cerkasov, acivist of Memorial (the same organization for which was cooperating Natalia Estemirova), five people broke open the office and they "said that they were members of the military and security and they led by Zarema and her husband."

The news should be censored because it clearly demonstrates the difficult situation experienced in this historic moment from the Chechnya. So the authorities in Grozny have avoided comment on the news of the kidnapping, yesterday. Even a police man did not want to talk of "kindnap", saying that in respect of the two was not used the force and they would have voluntarily follow the people who were coming to extract them.
"This is a monstrous crime," said Tatiana Lokshina, head of the Moscow branch of Human Rights Watch. "After the death of Natalia Estemirova seemed that we had a break in the killings and attacks against human rights activists. Unfortunately this did not happen", she added.
The violence, the oppression, the murders have become incredibly common in Chechnya in recent years since the country is ruled by Ramzan Kadyrov, with the full support of Vladimir Putin.
Defined by many a ruthless and undemocratic leaders, Kadyrov, according to the Association for Threatened Peoples (German Association for Human Rights), would be the main culprit of 70% of all murders, rapes, abductions and cases of torture committed in Chechnya recently. Oleg Orlov, a member of the association Memorial, had openly accused the Chechen president Kadyrov to be the instigator of the assassination of Natalia Estemirova.

Now this new murder comes just four days after the decision of the military court in Moscow to open a new process for the three alleged killers of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist for Novaya Gazeta. This decision was taken despite the total disagreement of the reporter family: they are sure of the uselessness of a new trial without collecting other evidence, but using only one those, false, collected in the past.
Reporters without borders has accused the Russian legal system do not want any clarification on the journalist murder, saying that the new process will be only a formality. This is nothing new for a country that is at 141th place on 173 countries in the ranking of freedom press drawn up in 2008. From March 2000, 20 journalists were killed and the Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been the hardest journal hit with 4 journalists killed.
An increase of violence that now affects everyone open mouth against the power.