Rights Campaigner Gunned Down In Ingushetia

Maksharip Aushev was buried today. Some 3,000 mourners gathered in the drizzle outside Nazran, Ingushetia's largest city, to say goodbye to the opposition campaigner.

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Maksharip Aushev was buried today.

Some 3,000 mourners gathered in the drizzle outside Nazran, Ingushetia's largest city, to say goodbye to the opposition campaigner.

Aushev was murdered on Sunday when his car was sprayed with bullets as he drove to visit family in the nearby republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Read more about Aushev here.

Aushev's murder is just the latest in a string of killings this year aimed at rights workers in the volatile North Caucasus region.

Sri Lanka: From December "total freedom of movement" for the Tamil in refugee camps

Colombo promises that the resettlement of refugees will be completed by the end of January. As of today at least 160 thousand people still live in camps.

China: Explosion in coal mine: 31 killed and 78 trapped underground

The origin of the blast gas leak. It is yet another incident recorded in a mine. As a rough estimate, in 2009 at least 3 thousand people have died in accidents incidents in various mines due to landslides, floods and explosions.

On January 19, Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer working for the family of a Chechen girl murdered by a Russian Army colonel, was shot in central Moscow.

On July 15, Chechen activist Natalia Estemirova was murdered by unknown assailants.

In August, Zarema Sadulayeva, the head of a Chechen children's charity, and her husband, Alik Dzhabrailov, were found shot dead in the trunk of a car.

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