9 year old girl killed by Russian neo nazis

BBC ^ | 10 Feb 2004 | BBC

[Cronos]

A nine-year old Tajik girl has been stabbed to death in the Russian city of St Petersburg by suspected skinheads.

Police said a group of youths armed with knives and bats attacked the girl on Monday night, stabbing her 11 times.

Her father and an 11-year old boy were also hospitalized with head wounds.

The attack was being widely seen in Russia as racist in origin.

St Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko, who described the attack as "bestial", said they must combat any manifestations of nationalism in the city.

"This crime is comparable to the terrorist act in the Moscow underground railway," she said.

"It is different in scale but these events are of the same order."

At least 39 people died last week in Moscow when a suspected suicide bomber detonated a bomb on an underground train.

'Skinhead gangs'

St Petersburg police named the man injured in Monday's attack as Yusuf Sultanov, 34, from Tajikistan.

He was with his daughter, Hurshida, and an 11-year old boy, Alabir, when they were attacked in a courtyard.

A report by Russia TV said investigators were confident that St Petersburg-based skinheads were behind the incident.

There were several small but well-organised neo-Nazi groups in the city, the report said.

There have been several racist attacks in Moscow and other large Russian cities in the past, targeting foreign students, diplomats or immigrants from former Soviet Republics.

An estimated 300 skinheads attacked market places in Moscow two years ago, killing three people.

Chanting racist slogans, they smashed up market stalls and attacked anyone who appeared to be from the Caucasus region.

[Cronos]

It is old, but still shocking, Russians revering Hitler and considering themselves NAzis and painting swastikass. Don't they know that Hitler considered Slavs to be as subhuman (in his mind) as Jews?

And what type of person kills a 9 year old girl in from of her father? Do they think that makes them brave? Cowards, no better than terrorists

[Cronos]

What's the view from Russia on this?

[ambrose]

most Neo-Nazis/skinheads/etc. are dumb as dirt. They have no knowledge of history, even their own.

[RusIvan]

They are criminals npo doubts. I remember this story.
They were arrested soon after. SO they didn't get away with this.

[Tempest]

Why?! Why?!

[Cronos]

What is the Russian street opinion on these scum?

[Cronos]

Crazy, eh?

[Clara Lou]

Another variety of scum-- they're nothing but terrorists.

[Seselj]

You are correct, Slavs were considered subhuman by the Nazis (remember Generalplan Ost?), however from reading several slavic forums I have observed that there are a good number of slavic neo-nazis. They are usually teenagers who are nazis because they think it's cool, they grow out of it.

I could be wrong, but aren't the caucusus people (Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kazaks, etc) white? How did these Nazis know they weren't Russians?

[Cronos]

Well, what exactly do you mean by 'white'? White in coloring? Or white as in Caucasians? White in coloring: Not really, the Georgians, Armenians etc are brownish skinned and so are the Tartars and Turkic people who have a slight yellowish tinge too. Racially, the Georgians and Armenians are Caucasians but the Tartars are Turkic, of the Mongoloid race, though there has been a lot of intermingling.

[RussianConservative]

Uzbecks, Tajiks, Kazaks are mostly turk and not Caucus but Central Asian.

[RussianConservative]

Georgians are Illirion not Caucasian. Chechin is Caucasian. Armenian also not Caucasian. Ossessians Indo-European.

[Cronos]

Georgians and Armenians are Caucasians. The 3 races are Caucasians, Negroid and Mongoloid. They can't be Negroid and I don't think they're Mongoloid -- their history is older than the Turkic invasions.

[Cronos]

And still, that's no reason to kill people just because they look different.

[RussianConservative]

Did I ever say it was? I'm sorry, I seem to miss that comment.

[RusIvan]

It is my opinion of cause. But anyway in russain mentality the murder of children is totally over the edge evil. I beleive that perpetrators of that will have very very rough time in prison.