PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA One of Ametov’s relatives said in the comment to the Human Rights Watch organi- zation that Reshat was well-known among the Crimean Tatars, he often addressed the authorities on local problems, and he regularly commented on political aT airs on his Facebook page. Ametov’s body with traces of violent death was found 10 days later in the village of Zemlyanichnoye in Belogorsk district. The death was caused by a knife stab into the eye. ‘The body was terribly dis+ gured. He had knife wounds and bruises every- where. One eye was missing. He had a plastic bag on his head.’ Ametov’s wife Zarina, in her interview for Der Spiegel newspaper, Sep- tember 2014. At the beginning of April 2014, the Investigation Committee of the Investigation Department of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Crimea opened a criminal investigation of the murder of Reshat Ametov. However, in 2015 the case was sus- pended: the investigators failed to identify the persons involved in the crime. “It was suspended on the grounds that the alleged killer is taking part in the war. But, sorry, the killer is not one person. There have been at least + ve-six people. All of this is a fairy tale, a pack of lies. In the video everything is clear and the faces are visible”. Zarina Ametova, in the interview for QHA, February 16, 2016 In February 2016, the investigation into the killing was resumed in Crimea. Reshat Ametov had three children; at the time of his death, the youngest was 2.5 months old. Sergey Kokurin 36-year-old warrant o7 cer Sergey Kokurin died on March 18, 2014 in Simferopol during the storming of th the 13 Photogrammetric Center of the Main Direc- torate of Operational Support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the forensic examination, the Ukrainian military was killed by two 5.45 calibre bullets a Kalash- nikov assault riU e, on an upward trajectory (Sergey was in the tower). 56
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