Mass beating of Chechen children in Krasnodar territory

Mass beating of Chechen children occurred in the children's camp in the Krasnodar territory, where 300 schoolchildren aged 7-14 from Chechnya were having a rest.

As human rights defenders claim, the children were beaten by nearly 400 men from the local community. Camp's director and his two sons participated in the attack.

9 children with severe injuries were hospitalized as a result.

Mass beating in the camp of "Don" in a village of Novomikhailovka-2, in the Tuapse region of Kuban occurred in the night of 24 July.

According to tutors and victims, a deputy director of the Don Recreation Camp, Boris Usoltsev, being drunk, approached three teenagers from Chechnya in the courtyard in evening of 24 July and began to beat them, shouting foul curses.

Thus, Usoltsev shouted: "I crushed you in Chechnya, and I'll be crushing you here". Reportedly, Usoltsev previously fought in Chechnya in a gang of so-called contractors (mercenaries).

Teacher Ruslan Ginazov tries protect pupils and had to user power to stop Usoltsev.

The father of the instigator of fight, the head of the camp Mikhail Usoltsev, tried to settle the case, offered "peace" and asked teachers not to wash dirty linen in public. They agreed.

But soon the director returned with his second son and a crowd of 400 local residents armed with iron rods, and started a real mass beating in the camp.

"One of the beaten boys was undergoing rehabilitation after surgery, his postoperative sutures have not yet healed", relatives said.

"Counselors from other regions have warned us that an attack on our children is being prepared, and we hid children for the evening in different rooms, among children from other regions. We spent the whole night in the street, trying to protect them.

Closer to the night, the camp director opened the gates and let a crowd of local residents, led by his second son Andrey, to enter the territory. They scoured all buildings, looking for Chechen children. Someone sent the crowd to the building, where the children from the junior group from Chechnya stayed. It was exactly this group of children and their coaches that was subject to the attack of brutal mob, teacher Yakha Mahasheva said.

According to tutors, they and the children were in the blocked by the attackers during the whole night and tried to get through to relatives and friends asking for help. Local police, they said, had taken no measures to prevent the beatings, and witnessed the pogroms, while talking with someone on the radio, and sometimes encouraged the mad cheering crowd, which beat the Chechen children.

It is reported that many Chechen children with head injuries and fractures of the extremities were brought to a hospital in in the town of Tuapse. Seven of them are in a serious condition. The 60-year-old coach Ruslan Ginazov is also reported to be in a serious condition.