A public rally against terrorism has taken place in Chechnya, with
participants burning portraits of militant leaders. The event was held
by Chechen youth organizations and students in the center of Grozny,
RIA Novosti reports.
Young people dressed in green shirts with pictures of Chechen leader
Ramzan Kadyrov marched over a kilometre from the Peoples Square of
Friendship along Putin Avenue to Kadyrov Square.
They threw the portraits of Doku Umarov, Ahmed Zakayev, Aslanbek
Vadalov, Huseyn Gakayev on the ground and marched over them and burned
them.
The head of the 'Ramzan' patriotic club Sado Meserbiyev said that the
militant leaders had betrayed their nation and hate their own people.
He emphasized that the crimes are committed in the interests of their
'sponsors'.
The organizers of the event said that the rally is a memorial to the
recent attack on parliament. Last week an attack on the Chechen
parliament resulted in the deaths of three people and injured 17.
