Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.
Four knife-wielding prisoners claiming to be Islamic State group militants launched a deadly attack in a penal colony in southern Russia on Friday before being killed and their hostages released, officials said.
The attack left four people dead, while the four hostage-taking prisoners were “neutralized” by snipers, Russian officials said.
The attackers initially seized eight penal colony employees and four fellow inmates, according to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Ser
Can’t google it due to similarities, but it’s the second recent case of overtaking a prison by guys affilated with ISIS in a non-muslim region. With Krokus in mind it seems russian security forces struggle to prevent those, probably due to many of them rearranged to the ukrainian cause. If that war wouldn’t end soon, I suspect there would be even more sectarian violence in the future.
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What were the conditions in the prison? What were the prisoner’s demands?
At least in the historical cases I’m aware of, when prisoners take hostages, they have demands related to their conditions. And gunning down those prisoners and their hostages while pretending they just decided to murder people for no reason after taking hostage is not an atypical response.
From what I’ve heard, some Russian prisons are just as bad as American prisons, locking people in solitary for months to years at a time or in large rooms full of small cages.
Just as bad? I would rather spend my life in American Supermax than stay five years in a Russian penal colony.
This person desperately wants to talk about the U.S. to the point that they’re accusing me of whataboutism by talking about Russia in a thread about Russia.
I’m more familiar with prisoner abuse and prison riots in America than Russia, I don’t have much else to compare it to.
People spend years in metal boxes without seeing another human, what we do to our prisoners literally causes PTSD and would be a war crime if done to POWs.
And that’s the system acting entirely within the law as prescribed. There’s even more horrific cases of what guards regularly do to inmates on their own initiative.
Yes, it’s bad. But you get all of that and then some in Russian penal colonies.
You have zero idea how bad Russian prisons actually are. Beatings, starvations and rape are considered normal in many places. There’s a reason many convicts would rather get sent to war. I’d spent the next 10 years in an American prison before even one year in a Russian one.
Beatings, starvations and rape are considered normal in many places
All of those things aren’t uncommon in American prisons
What were the prisoner’s demands?
What I’ve read: automatic weapons and a helicopter
Also: their religion to rule over the world
Where did you read that?
Not doubting it, ISIS are psychos, but it wasn’t in the article
Multiple articles mention the helicopter, can’t find the guns but you can imagine
https://news.az/news/-in-russia-inmates-demand-two-million-dollars-and-a-helicopter-details
Those poor innocent penal colony employees just trying to make money and live their lives! We should incessantly call for the destruction of the Russian Government every hour of every day until successful as it is clearly all their fault!
Or we should incessantly call for the destruction of the Russian government because it is an oligarchic dictatorship currently committing a lot of war crimes while invading a sovereign country and threatening other countries in Europe, along with nuclear sabre-rattling.
I hope you aren’t saying that because you think that’s what I’m suggesting, because I do not think you are some sort of paid actor.
And honestly, if Russia is paying people to spread Russian propaganda on Lemmy of all places, let them waste their money.
I mean it is, but that’s also true of America. This is a war between two capitalist powers trying to do imperialism. The only stance that isn’t continuing the slaughter of the working class for the benefit of some oligarchs is peace as quickly as possible and opposing any means for your own government to prolong the war.
