Russia Found Guilty

Today the mystery of a lost love one was solved for one Chechen family. The European Court of Human Rights condemned Russia on Thursday over the violent death of a Chechen and ordered it to pay 55,000 euros ($74,450) in damages to the victim's family. It is said that it has proved beyond a doubt that the Russian government was responsible for the death of Shamil Said-Khasanovich Akhmadov, His body was found in a field in April 2002, his right leg was broken, the upper half of his skull was missing and there were bullet holes in the chest area of his clothes.The court found Russia guilty of "violating the right to life, illegal detention, an inefficient investigation into the death and not handing over documents relating to the case." Fighting occured when Vladamir Putin took office in 2000 and sent troops to conduct indiscriminate sweeps known as "chistki" or clean-ups through Chechen villages in search of insurgents. Dozens of those detained in this way have never returned home.