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Nazi pgrom at Moscow street markets leve 2 dead. by @lex 8:29pm Sat Nov 3 '01

In evening of tuesday 30th some 200-300 boneheads gathered near Tsaritsyno metro station of Moscow southside between 6 PM and 8.30. They had decided to target a market near Tsaritsyno station half hours after its closing time 8 PM, when only traders, many of whom Caucasians or other "blacks", were remaining.

Crowd raided market armed with iron bars, shouting slogans "bash the blacks!" and "Spartak is the champion!", destroying everything in sight. Some wore RNE (Russian National Unity-party, biggest nazi party) symbols. Two persons, 37 year old Armenian and 35 year old Indian men were killed on the spot, their heads crushed with iron bars. A Kurdish woman managed to save her 5 year old daughter with cost of her ribs and nose broken.

Few cops appeared quite soon, shooting to air. Nazis withdrew to metro. 20.48 they splitted to two groups in Kashirskaya metro station, bigger of them (some 150 persons) continued to Kahovskaya station (my neighbourhood), to raid hotel Sevastopolskaya where many Afghani are living. Nazis trashed windows and beat up some 5 residents, including 7 years old boy who got serious brain damage. Besides 2 killed, at least some 23 persons were wounded altogehter in market, hotel and metro, five of whom in a very serious condition. Many of the wounded were Russians, who just happened to have too dark hair and skin. It is quite hard to make a difference between Russians and Caucasians ("blacks") targeted by hate-propaganda, and for foreign people often impossible.

Dozens of young men were arrested at random in the southside, most of whom propably have nothing to do with the pogrom. A 17 year old was arrested on the spot at Tsaritsyno, accused of manslaughter, but it is a question will there be enough evidence against him. No people have been sentenced to prison for Moscow pogroms until now, altough 5 of the organisers of similar pogrom at Yasenevsko market place 21st of April this year are arrested and waiting their court.

Official police version is that some fans of Spartak just "were not able to hold back" their happiness for victory of the championship, and everything was spontaneous and unorganised. They do not bother to explain who brought the iron bars to crowd who came unarmed, and how the date was fit to both Davos forum and "Lokomotiv - Real Madrid" match to where much of the police force were ordered. Moscow city mayor Luzhkov did not swallowed police version, but for sure he will not change his racist and un-constitutional

registration policy, motivated with "Caucasian problem", "too many Caucasians living in capital". Mainstream media also joined to hypocrite outry, and for example for Moskovskiy Komsomolets (biggest tabloid) it was not a problem to publish almost full page article about "Caucasian problem" right on the next page!

This was at least 3rd lethal nazi attack this year - 22nd of April nazis celebrated Hitler's birthday and killed a Chechen boy, 23rd of August skinheads attacked refugees from Angola in Moscow refugee consultation of the UN, killing one of them. Most of the nazi attacks propably do not come to daylight, since many of the victims are illegal immigrants targeted with police harrassment and not endowed to free healthcare. 31st of october there was also an incident, some Azerbaidzani and Russians had an argument, and suddendly Azerbaidzanis were shot and seriously wounded.

Some speculation:

Nazis are also very strongly interlinked with organised crime, and the fact that another of the two market places at Tsaritsyno metro station was not targeted raises a suspicion that it was about underworld control of the market. Maybe market had failed to pay for protection, or paid to wrong people? Of course it is possible that economical and political interest was combined, and also possible that there was no mafia connection this time.

There exists a certain balance of fear in Moscow, Luzhkov is eager to terrorize Caucasians in order to finance his police force - without bribes collected from illegal Caucasians he would be absolutely unable to feed and maintain his 150 000 strong police force. But for the same reason he is also not able to kick Caucasians out, altough he poses as if that is what he is up for. In another hand everybody also thought that Hitler couldn't have afforded to destroy Jews, and look what happened.< BR>