These
duties are executed by other person. Investigation on a number of crimes have
been carried out. And I demand that they will be finished», Kadyrov said.
"The Yamadayev brothers are linked to a number of serious crimes,
including murders and abductions, as well as the events in the Borozdinovskaya
[village]," Kadyrov is quoted by the news agencies as saying.
Vostok battalion troops conducted a special-task military operation in the
Borozdinovskaya village in the summer of 2005. Four houses were burnt down, 11
people disappeared and a 77-year-old man died as a result of the operation.
News agencies were reporting in April that two hundred military personnel from
the Vostok special battalion in Chechnya have submitted early discharge
requests, following earlier media reports of an alleged shootout in Chechnya
April 14, involving security convoys of the Chechen President and Sulim
Yamadayev, the commander of the Vostok special-task battalion.
The Chechen parliament adopted a statement on April 17 addressed to Russian
Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, requesting the dismissal of Commander Sulim
Yamadayev and his brother Badrudi Yamadayev from their posts in the battalion,
which was specially formed to conduct military operations against Chechen
militants, news agency RIA Novosti reported. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov
said April 21 he had no conflict with the Russian Defense Ministry's
special-task battalion Vostok, but was still concerned about some of its
military leaders.
