QURGHON TEPPA, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus — Russian authorities should toughen measures against ultra-nationalist organizations acting in Russia, Muhabbatsho Aziz, farther of the 20-year-old Salohiddin Azizov, who was brutally killed in the Moscow region on December 5, said in an interview with Asia-Plus yesterday, following funeral ceremony that was held in Khatlon’s Shahritus district yesterday.
“Don’t Tajik and Russian authorities care about the fact that these monsters have killed so many innocent people, mainly young men, and what are local and international human rights organizations doing?”
“So much of life is paradox. In the 1940s, Russian and Tajik peoples had fighting Fascism nip and tuck, while at present many Russians support fascist ideas,” Muhabbatsho Aziz said.
“I am as father, whose son was killed by Russian neonazis, demand that Russian authorities take necessary measures to ensure safety and rights of foreign citizens in Russia. I am demanding that Russian authorities find and punish those who killed my son. I do not want others to suffer my family’s fate,” he said.
We will recall that a group of some 10 persons attacked two Tajik men near the village of Zhabkino in the Moscow region on December 5, at around 11:30 p.m. Reports say the attackers fired shots, wounding one man who escaped, while the 20-year-old Salohiddin Azizov was beheaded. Azizov’s head was found in a plastic bag in a rubbish bin in Moscow on December 6. A group calling itself Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists claimed responsibility for the beheading.
