Dagestan+-+Russian+Effectiveness+Sources

Radicalising Russia's Caucasian Muslims. 01 October 2007. (Access through Jane's Information Group)


 * "Despite paying lip-service to the need to win over the peoples of the North Caucasus, Moscow has largely relied on policies of repression, and those local administrations eager to adopt a more positive strategy have been constrained by a lack of resources and control over the security forces. Policies to rebuild cohesion in the region and legitimise administrations often seen as either powerless or simple agents of Moscow are either absent or founder owing to a lack of resources."
 * "The security forces in the region have largely come to rely upon brutal and often extralegal methods, increasingly snatching suspected militants without warrants and transferring them to facilities out of their home region for detention without trial and, often, interrogation by torture. Therefore, Dagestani suspects find themselves sent to the infamous Khankala base in Chechnya while many Ingushetians end up in the North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz. This is partly done to minimise the risk they will be freed by local allies, but it also allows an increasing number of suspects to 'disappear' with relatives having little chance to trace their whereabouts, or even discover if they are still alive."