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Tuesday, 08 August 2006
EIGHTY-FOUR CHECHEN MILITANTS SURRENDER AFTER PATRUSHEV\'S CALL – ALKHANOV
By empty (8/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More than 80 people have turned themselves in to police in Chechnya after Russian Anti-Terrorist Committee head Nikolai Patrushev called on members of armed groups to voluntarily surrender their weapons, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told journalists in Grozny on Tuesday. According to reports released on \"August 8, 84 people have voluntarily surrendered to police and other law enforcement agencies. These are good figures if we bear in mind what category of citizens we are speaking about and how difficult it is to establish contact even with one [such] person, to persuade him to break away from his usual criminal environment, receive legal documents and take up a job in peaceful life,\" he said.
More than 80 people have turned themselves in to police in Chechnya after Russian Anti-Terrorist Committee head Nikolai Patrushev called on members of armed groups to voluntarily surrender their weapons, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told journalists in Grozny on Tuesday. According to reports released on \"August 8, 84 people have voluntarily surrendered to police and other law enforcement agencies. These are good figures if we bear in mind what category of citizens we are speaking about and how difficult it is to establish contact even with one [such] person, to persuade him to break away from his usual criminal environment, receive legal documents and take up a job in peaceful life,\" he said. (Interfax)