‘Witch Hunting’: Why Russia blames a closed ingu Sufi order for major terrorist acts

In January, Local Residents of Incieniya were Ramzan Padiyev and Batukhan Tochiev been arrested On the charges of killing General Igor CyrilloThe highest Russian military officials will be assassinated since the full-scale occupation of Ukraine.

Kirillov and his assistant were killed when a bomb was in the apartment in the Southeastern apartment in Moscow in mid-2024. Ukraine’s security services are responsible for assassination, Russian officials claim The 29-year-old Uzbekistan National National Ahmad Gurbanov carried out the murder of Padiyev and Tochiev.

Russian media, reference to security forces identified As a member of the two young Batal Haji brotherhood, in the 19th century Ingush Sheikh Batal Haji Belkhoroev is a closed Sufi Muslim suspension.

Padiyev and Tochiev are not the first member to be linked to a large terrorist attack in Russia. Last year was a member of the brotherhood been arrested Ammunition to the culprits of weapons and ammunition ammunition Raunting March 2024 attack Crocus City Hall in the concert space, 145 people are killed and hundreds of injured.

Regional analysts and Human rights activists Agree, the recent claims against the members of the batal pilgrimage, a strong brotherhood by Russian security forces is part of an annual campaign in the direction of underground driving.

‘Golden period’

“One can not be a member of the batal pilgrim order, only it can be born in it,” he said.

“Although you are married to one of the brotherhood – even if a few people can do so – there will be no part.”

Sheikh Batal Haji Bellkhoroev, the founder of the religious brotherhood, was a student of Chechnya Muslim Mystic Kunta-Haji-Haji (Kunta Kishiyev). This attitude was translated into a bond between the relevant follows who will affect the faith of Belkhoroev’s followers.

Because Batal Haji Bellkhoroev opposed Russia’s occupation, and the tsarist was forced into modern Kaluga region in 1914.

Only one of the seven sons of Sheikh, Guray Belkhoroev, Belkhoroev Lineace’s only carrier of Linece, survived after the Bolshevik repressions. Today, its generations take up the leading position in the procedure that about 20,000 members.

“The brotherhood of the Batal Hajji is often not known as a tonger. They are a very connected group,” Evloeva said. “In the past, they are made by other inbgents or purchased from a store. They will cook separately. Do they know the concept of halal Muslim?

Chechen-Inlush political analyst is Islam Belokiev, except for the former “modern comfort and clothing,” he said.

“Their Union has allowed them to live in the right repressions of the rigid repression by those who and then the sovieth,” Belokiev told the Moscow Times. “When the opportunity arises, entrepreneurs began … Ingushetia found high influential faces, enemies and very enthusiastic business partners.”

According to the “Golden Age” of the Batal Haji Order, Brotherhood, Journalist Evloeva, when brotherhood members occupied the main government rules coincided with the local chairmanship of the local role.

The first warning signs of the croup of brotherhood came when the Kremlin military man was appointed to Ingushetia in 2008.

“Sometimes they faced the raids – sometimes jewelry stores or other enterprises will be raided, and valuable items seized,” said Evloeva. “But now there was nothing similar to what happened. Castdown really started after the killing of Ibragim Eldzharkhiyev.”

‘Revenge act’

December 31, 2018, Ibrahim Bellkhoroev, a great grandson of the founder of the order, became brave In the city of Nazran, in a fire in the largest city in Ingushetia.

Media and observers thought that could be a murder coordinated In confrontation with Batal Eldzharharkhiev and Batal Eldzharharkhiev, Ingushetia is a special department center within the Russian Interior Ministry.

Ibragim was a car with a murder of Bellkhoroev two weeks after the murder striking By the armed near the border with Chechnya. The incident left three of the injured police, Eldjarchiyev was not injured.

Was Eldzharkariev and his brother in November 2019 ridiculous In a parking lot in a residential neighborhood in Moscow. The murder of the security guard, the Sufi ordered the home search and mass arrests and mass arrests and mass arrests and mass arrests are related to the members of the Batal Haji Brotherhood.

Eleven people were arrested in connection with the murder of Eldzharkhiev. Accusation Although the Russian government is against them, it includes “leadership and participation in the terrorist group” Added Batal pilgrimage orders Now the extensive list Terrorist organizations have already started after the court.

“Presentations were the act of revenge by law enforcement agencies. They did not forgive the killing of a high-ranking police officer,” Journalist Evloeva said, “No member said.

“They lost their positions of all high rankings – deputies, businessmen, ministers – everyone in power, which is still in the Crocus City Hall, the Crocus City Hall attack and the killing of General Kirillov.

Protection of Chechen

In November 2022 – Amid fresh arrest High-charge members of the Batal Haji Order – Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov published a video called the “Coordinated SMEAR campaign” brothers victims.

“Me … The audience of the esteemed batal pilgrimage was always and will always stay close brothers,” he said. Dirtyov gossip Akhmed Bellkhoroev, a former member of the Ingushetia parliament, is one of the leading figures of the Order.

“If there were terrorists, I am a terrorist. If they are a religion, I am one member of one member of one of one faith,” Kadyrov, Chechen Mystic Kunta-Haji-Haji added with a link to the order.

Members of the Batal Hajj have long been close to Kadyrov. Kadyrov even in 2014 orderly Shah Batal Haji Bellkhoroev called a great mosque in Chechnya.

Among the repression, many members of the Ingush ordered in Chechnya, neighboring Republic, adjacent to the neighboring Republic, adjacent to the neighboring Republic.

Political analyst Belomishiyev said that Kadyrov said that Kadyrov is ready to adopt the edges, the benefits of which in Ingusheti can be reaped after normalization.

“At that time, a large number of batal pilgrims believed that the repression against the brotherhood will soon be reduced, especially Kadyrov intervened. But this was not the case,” he said.

In December 2022, Kütirov became a group of volunteer fighters in the Batal Haji Speid response section, part of Kadyrov’s Akhmat’s military unit as part of the Russian army filtered Front lines in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

About 100 members of the order, Kadyrov’s forces have joined the forces fighting in Ukraine, according to he is medulis.

Despite the increase in Russia’s occupation to Ukraine, but also Kadyrov’s peculiarity, the protection of Batal pilgrims may still be a cost for the Chechen leader.

By linking the members of Brotherhood to Crocus City Hall – which Russian officials claim Islamic State is established by ISIS-K-authorities established by Affiliate, Sufi order and international terrorist organizations, creating a connection between analysts tell.

“(For Russian security forces), this is an opportunity to destroy and stain, as a person who supports the terrorists who allegedly responsible for the attack on Crocus City Hall,” said Belokiev. “Kadyrov knows that Batal pilgrims accused of attacking the Crocus City Hall attack or Kirillov’s murder (how can it play).

Aside from Kadyrov’s batal volume, it is difficult not to notice between the fate of some Chechen nation and the parallels between the brotherhood.

In front of Ukraine, members of the order fought against Russia since 2014, “Belokiyev said, former press secretary Chechen Sheikh Mansur Battalion He struggles for Kyiv.

In 1990 and in the 2000s, the situation for those who remain in the house near the fate of Chechens in Russia.

“During the war in Chechnya, Russia had a tendency to blame all crimes about the Chechens … The story is the same as the order of the batal pilgrim.” “They are simply skapegoed. It looks like a witch hunt.”