- Idris Gaibov
Idris Gaibov is the
Deputy Prime Minister ofChechnya in thegovernment ofRamzan Kadyrov as of 2006. He is a former field commander of theChechen Republic of Ichkeria .From 1997 to 1999 (during the regime of
Aslan Maskhadov ), Gaibov was theprefect ofKurchaloyevskiy District . His brothers Rizvan and Ibragim were reported to be detained byRussia ns during a "cleansing operation" in 2001. [ [http://www.memo.ru/eng/memhrc/texts/kurchaloy.shtml Cleansing operations in the Kurchaloyevskiy region (June 2001)] , Memorial, 2001]According to human rights group
Memorial as well asAnna Politkovskaya , Gaibov had orchestrated the atrocities by Kadyrov units in the outskirts of the Chechen village in theKurchaloy onJuly 27 -July 28 ,2006 . Reportedly, he hung the severed head of a killed rebel fighter up as a warning to the rest of the village.As a Chechen state official he had given orders to members of the Russiansecurity force s who were not subordinate to him todecapitate a dead body. Armed men then spent the next two hours photographing the head with theirmobile phone s; the head remained there for 24 hours. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400805.html?nav=rss_print/outlook Her Own Death, Foretold] , "Washington Post ", October 15 2006] [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/21/wchech21.xml Inside the torture chambers of Grozny] , "The Telegraph", 21/10/2006] [ [http://www.jamestown.org/chechnya_weekly/article.php?articleid=2372547 MEMORIAL DESCRIBES “MEDIEVAL” JUSTICE IN CHECHNYA] ]References
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E2DE1630F932A25753C1A96F958260 Chechens Confident of Driving Out Russians] , "
The New York Times ", October 11, 1999 (Carlotta Gall interviewing Gaibov when he was still fighting Russians in 1999)
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