DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus – Leader of the Islamic Revival Party (IRPT) Muhiddin Kabiri has strongly condemned the recent brutal killing of the Tajik national Salohiddin Azizov by the Russian nationalists in the Moscow region and called on Tajik authorities not to confine themselves to delivering a protest note.
Kabiri made this remark at a press conference in IRPT’s head office in Dushanbe on December 17. He called on the Tajik government to take more serious measures and on the Russian authorities to be not indifferent to such cases and intensify fight against hate crimes.
He noted that the Russian government is not interested in such cases, however, there are forces in Russia that are interested in deterioration of relationship between the two countries. “But they will not realize their ambition,” Kabiri stressed.
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.
