About 100 people were arrested yesterday, Sunday (25/9) in Dagestan during a demonstration against conscription in the Russian Caucasus region in questionwhich has already paid a heavy price since the start of the attack on Ukraine.
According to the non-governmental organization OVD-Info, which specializes in recording actions opposed to the Russian government, at least 101 people were arrested by the police in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in southwestern Russia.
Russian media broadcast videos showing women confronting police officers during it demonstration. “Why are you taking our children?” one of them asks.
Dagestan: a policeman is running away from the protesters.
Video: Podval Dagestana
🔗https://t.co/riv1nts2jG pic.twitter.com/NWWIV1WXHt— Novaya Gazeta Europe (@novayagazeta_en) September 25, 2022
Other videos show protesters being brutally arrested by police.
The republic of Dagestan, a multi-ethnic region where the majority of the population is Muslim, is one of the poorest regions of of Russia. It was drowned in blood in the 2000s due to a war between Russian forces and jihadist rebels.
In Dagestan’s Makhachkala, protesters are shouting “No to war!” and “Let them go!”, arguing with policemen, and trying to take back the detainees. Earlier, protesters against mobilisation blocked the federal highway.
Video: Utro Dagestan
🔗https://t.co/riv1nts2jG pic.twitter.com/gdGwThGK1y— Novaya Gazeta Europe (@novayagazeta_en) September 25, 2022
Since the start of the Russian offensive against Kiev, it is also one of the Russian regions with the strongest proportion of men killed in combat in Ukraine, according to death tolls posted on social media and compiled by Russian independent media.
In order to appease the population, Dagestan’s military commissar, Daitbeg Mustafayev, said this weekend that only men with “military qualification” would be recruited on priority and that no conscripts would be sent to Ukraine.
Protests broke out in Russia against the partial conscription ordered on September 21 by President Vladimir Putin.
According to OVD-Info and as reported by the Athens News Agency, at least 2,300 people have been arrested since then during actions against conscription. A significant number of departures of Russians to neighboring countries have also been observed.
His critics accuse the Kremlin of wanting to prioritize recruiting men who live in poor and deprived areas.
Source: News Beast
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