Weeek-ending 14 February 2020
Tanya Lokshina, Associate Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch: ‘Justice is finally coming to the small, remote village of Vremenny, located in Dagestan, the largest and arguably the most complex region of Russia’s Northern Caucasus. The residents there are finally being compensated after an abusive 2014 counterterrorism operation practically destroyed the village.’
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Dagestan: Justice Comes to Dagestan
Villagers Win Compensation Years After Authorities Nearly Destroyed Their Village
Tanya Lokshina: Justice is finally coming to the small, remote village of Vremenny, located in Dagestan, the largest and arguably the most complex region of Russia’s Northern Caucasus. The residents there are finally being compensated after an abusive 2014 counterterrorism operation practically destroyed the village. We documented the crackdown on Salafi Muslims in Vremenny and elsewhere in Dagestan, detailing the abusive counterinsurgency operations by Russian law enforcement and security officials, and in the summer 2015 published the findings in our report, “Invisible War.” Human Rights Watch, 12 February 2020
Featured photo: Local residents cleaning up the debris of a house destroyed in a counterinsurgency operation in Novyi Agachaul, Dagestan, February 2014. © 2014 Varvara Pakhomenko
