Mashadov’s Family has Officially Requested Aslan Mashadov’s Body from the State Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation
To the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov
From Mashadova Kusama (born in the Kazakh SSR, settlement Atasu of the Zhana- Arkinskiy region, the Karaganda oblast, in 1950)
From Mashadov Anzor (born in the village Platonovka, the Primorye Territory of the USSR , in1975)
From Mashadova Fatima (born in the Hungarian Republic , Tata, in 1983)
The Copy: to the Chairman of the Council for Assistance to Development of the Institutes of Civil Societies and Human Rights at
the President of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova. The Copy: to the Co-Chairman of the Public Committee “Civil Assistance”, to a Member of the Initiative Group for Association in Protection of Civil and Economic Rights in the Russian Federation “The Common Action” Svetlana Gannushkina.
The Application
On the 8 th of March, 2005 , there was information in mass media of the Russian Federation , that, as the result of the operation, carried out by the Center of Special Purpose (CSP) of the FSB of the Russian Federation , the President of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria, Aslan Mashadov, was killed in the Chechen settlement Tolstoy-Yurt (Doikur-Evl).
Our relatives, living in the territory of the Chechen Republic , identified Aslan Mashadov, born in 1951, in the victim during the identification actions carried out by the State Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation . We, members of the family of Aslan Mashadov, also identified him as the head of our family by video shown on TV and by the photographic materials, published in press.
As the closest relatives of Aslan Mashadov, we ask you to give the body to us to bury Aslan Mashadov, who was tragically lost on the 8 th of March, 2005, in the territory of the Chechen Republic in the settlement Tolstoy-Yurt (Doikur-Evl), and also we ask to give the official certificate on his death with specifying of the date, place and reasons of his death.
We are seriously disturbed with the fact, that the assistant to the public prosecutor of the Russian Federation Nikolay Shepel has repeatedly declared in mass-media that Aslan Mashadov’s body cannot be given to his family for burring according to the Russian law. All these applications radically contradict the principles of international humanity and the international obligations taken by Russia , as Aslan Mashadov was an honest politician, had no relation to terrorism and regularly publicly condemned it.
We also ask you to provide safety of the body of the head of our family Aslan Mashadov till the judicial verdict on the given problem, instead of to bury it in a secret grave.
We ask you to inform us about the decision on the given application in the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of the Russian Federation , at the following address:
5, the 3 rd entrance, house № 4, the Luchnikov lane, Moscow , 101000 Phone: + 7(095) 928-25-06 + 7(095) 206-89-58 Fax: + 7(095) 206-89-58
With hope for the positive decision of the problem, the members of the family of Aslan Mashadov:
Kusama Mashadova – the widow,
Anzor Mashadov – the son,
Fatima Mashadova – the daughter.
The 11 th of March, 2005 .
The given inquiry was sent to the State Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation on the 29 th of March, 2005. The copies, as it is specified in the document, were given to Ella Pamfilova and Svetlana Gannushkina.
The State Office of the Public Prosecutor should answer Mashadov’s family through the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia.
Chechenpress , the Department of letters, 01.04.05
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