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Russian Woman Posing as Chechen Sniper as "Joke" Brutally Killed by
Friends
Created: 24.03.2006 12:25 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:25 MSK, 45
minutes ago
(I hesitate to post this horrific item but it serves to
demonstrate two things: the criminalisation of the Russian military
in Chechnya; and the nature of some of the the atrocities
perpetrated by Putin's armed forces against the oppressed Chechen
people JP)
A 37-old Russian woman was brutally killed by her friend after she
lied that she had fought on the separatists' side in Chechnya as a
sniper, the Ekspress-Gazeta daily reports.
The woman, Yelena Skoryatina went missing after a party with
colleagues at a furniture factory where she worked. Police started
investigating the incident and soon began to suspect that the woman
had been murdered they found blood spots on the floor of the room
where the party took place. Investigators suspected two men who left
the room last on the day when the victim was last seen. Soon, one of
them, Denis Saunin, confessed to murder, but said that the victim
deserved it.
Investigators established that Skoryatina's story was nothing but
drunken bravado. She had been short-sighted from early childhood and
had never left her native town of Ulyanovsk for more than a week.
Saunin, who is a veteran of the Chechen war told investigators that
on the day when the murder took place he had been telling his
colleagues about the atrocities committed by Chechen terrorists. The
victim started arguing with him and said that Chechens were fighting
for their freedom.
"She said that [Chechen warlords] Maskhadov and Basayev were good
people and at the end said that she had been a sniper with Chechen
troops and taken out our boys," Saunin told the investigators. "The
light dimmed in my eyes as she said this and I thought I must
avenge them. I thought "Skoryatina is not leaving this party
alive"," he added.
After everybody had left, Saunin, a guard at a factory, battered the
woman and then put out her right eye, because it is used in shooting
and cut off the index finger on her right hand the finger used to
pull the trigger, as well as the middle finger on her left hand as
it is used in an obscene gesture after a good shot. "She cried and
begged for mercy but I could not stop the faces of our boys killed
by Chechen snipers stood before my eyes," the killer said.
He did not stop at that. The veteran then stripped the woman, shoved
the fingers he'd cut off into her vagina and slit the victim's
throat.
Upon finishing the brutal murder, Saunin called his brother, they
put the body into a bag with sawdust and buried it in the nearby
garage block.
Both brothers have been arrested and charged with murder. Saunin
will undergo a psychiatric examination to test his sanity,
investigators told the newspaper.
Russian Woman Posing as Chechen Sniper as "Joke" Brutally Killed by
Friends
Created: 24.03.2006 12:25 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:25 MSK, 45
minutes ago
(I hesitate to post this horrific item but it serves to
demonstrate two things: the criminalisation of the Russian military
in Chechnya; and the nature of some of the the atrocities
perpetrated by Putin's armed forces against the oppressed Chechen
people JP)
A 37-old Russian woman was brutally killed by her friend after she
lied that she had fought on the separatists' side in Chechnya as a
sniper, the Ekspress-Gazeta daily reports.
The woman, Yelena Skoryatina went missing after a party with
colleagues at a furniture factory where she worked. Police started
investigating the incident and soon began to suspect that the woman
had been murdered they found blood spots on the floor of the room
where the party took place. Investigators suspected two men who left
the room last on the day when the victim was last seen. Soon, one of
them, Denis Saunin, confessed to murder, but said that the victim
deserved it.
Investigators established that Skoryatina's story was nothing but
drunken bravado. She had been short-sighted from early childhood and
had never left her native town of Ulyanovsk for more than a week.
Saunin, who is a veteran of the Chechen war told investigators that
on the day when the murder took place he had been telling his
colleagues about the atrocities committed by Chechen terrorists. The
victim started arguing with him and said that Chechens were fighting
for their freedom.
"She said that [Chechen warlords] Maskhadov and Basayev were good
people and at the end said that she had been a sniper with Chechen
troops and taken out our boys," Saunin told the investigators. "The
light dimmed in my eyes as she said this and I thought I must
avenge them. I thought "Skoryatina is not leaving this party
alive"," he added.
After everybody had left, Saunin, a guard at a factory, battered the
woman and then put out her right eye, because it is used in shooting
and cut off the index finger on her right hand the finger used to
pull the trigger, as well as the middle finger on her left hand as
it is used in an obscene gesture after a good shot. "She cried and
begged for mercy but I could not stop the faces of our boys killed
by Chechen snipers stood before my eyes," the killer said.
He did not stop at that. The veteran then stripped the woman, shoved
the fingers he'd cut off into her vagina and slit the victim's
throat.
Upon finishing the brutal murder, Saunin called his brother, they
put the body into a bag with sawdust and buried it in the nearby
garage block.
Both brothers have been arrested and charged with murder. Saunin
will undergo a psychiatric examination to test his sanity,
investigators told the newspaper.
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