The murderous attacks on churches and synagogues in Dagestan, Russia condemned its Security Council UN.
According to their announcement today, “the members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the abominable and cowardly terrorist”.
It is recalled that on Sunday attacks took place in Dagestan, which resulted in the death of 19 people. Among the dead were 5 perpetrators, who were neutralized by the security forces, as announced by the Russian Investigative Committee.
The coordinated attacks by armed men in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, and the city of Derbent (further south), occurred three months after a massacre in which 145 people died in a concert hall near Moscow was claimed by the Islamic State.
Mainly Muslims in Dagestan
Dagestan, one of Russia’s poorest regions, is a predominantly Muslim republic.
Between 2007 and 2017, a jihadist organization called the Caucasus Emirate, and later the Islamic Caucasus Emirate, organized attacks in Dagestan and the neighboring Russian republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
After an attack on the Crocus Town Hall premises near Moscow in March, authorities blamed Ukraine and the West, although ISIS claimed responsibility.
At the time, President Vladimir Putin insisted that “Russia cannot be the target of terrorist attacks perpetrated by Islamic fundamentalists” because “it shows a unique example of inter-religious harmony and inter-religious and inter-ethnic unity”.
However, three months ago, Russia’s internal security service, the FSB, said it had thwarted an ISIS plot to attack a Moscow synagogue.
With information from APE-MPE, Reuters