DURING FIRST QUARTER OF 2007 13 PEOPLE WERE KILLED BY NATIONALISTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.04.2007 17:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ During the first quarter of 2007 a rise is being
noticed among incidents on the ground of xenophobia compared with
the same period of past years, Director of Human Rights Moscow Bureau
Alexander Brod stated to a press conference on Monday.

"According to our monitoring, 49 cases on the ground of xenophobia have
been registered in the first quarter of 2007. 13 people were killed
and 50 were wounded," Brod said. He told during the same period in
2005, 22 attacks were registered, and 19 – in 2006; two people died
and 30 were wounded. Such figures show that crimes on the ground of
xenophobia have increased in Russia this year.

Brod underlined by number of crimes "in general large Russian cities
are leaders, among which are Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhni Novgorod,
Voronezh and Yaroslavl". And generally immigrants from Azerbaijan,
Uzbekistan, Armenia, Georgia, North Korea and representatives of
African states become targets for nationalistic attacks.

He said, in 2007 "nationalistic parties" have started to actively
prepare for participation in elections.

"Xenophobia resource is being actively used and has been used during
regional elections on March this year, and it will be used during
elections scheduled for December 2007," he stated. According to
Brod, literature of xenophobia character is being published like
before. Three such books have been already published this year,
and currently they undergo an examination, Interfax reports.