To Smother Chechen Insurgency, A Campaign of House Burning - NYTimes.com: "In the case of Ms. Basargina, she and her relatives said her family had no connections to the insurgency, but had been under police scrutiny since last year.
Before the attack, Ms. Basargina and 11 relatives had lived together in several small buildings behind a wall; the building was badly damaged and is no longer habitable.
Their troubles began, they said, when a car formerly owned by her nephew was used by a rebel in an attack last year. The rebel escaped after a skirmish, but abandoned the vehicle, which the police traced back to her nephew, Abubakar Musliyev, 31, the father of five.
Mr. Musliyev had sold the car long before, the family said, but the police did not believe him. He was summoned repeatedly to the police station during the ensuing year and was beaten several times, they said.
On Aug. 8, he disappeared. His relatives said they did not know where he went; their accounts of his activities cannot readily be confirmed.
Once he disappeared, they said, the family notified the prosecutors that he was missing, to seek help in finding him. A week later, a police officer visited their yard, according to Nakhapuv Islamova, Mr. Musliyev’s mother.
“He said, ‘Your son"
Before the attack, Ms. Basargina and 11 relatives had lived together in several small buildings behind a wall; the building was badly damaged and is no longer habitable.
Their troubles began, they said, when a car formerly owned by her nephew was used by a rebel in an attack last year. The rebel escaped after a skirmish, but abandoned the vehicle, which the police traced back to her nephew, Abubakar Musliyev, 31, the father of five.
Mr. Musliyev had sold the car long before, the family said, but the police did not believe him. He was summoned repeatedly to the police station during the ensuing year and was beaten several times, they said.
On Aug. 8, he disappeared. His relatives said they did not know where he went; their accounts of his activities cannot readily be confirmed.
Once he disappeared, they said, the family notified the prosecutors that he was missing, to seek help in finding him. A week later, a police officer visited their yard, according to Nakhapuv Islamova, Mr. Musliyev’s mother.
“He said, ‘Your son"
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