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A Russian military court on Thursday sentenced a recruit to 24 and a half years in prison for killing eight people at a military base in Siberia in October 2019, later denouncing the “hell” of the so-called “fingervşine”, the “brutal baptism” from army. informs Agerpres, quoting AFP.
Ramil Shamsutdinov was sentenced to “24 years and 6 months in a strict regime,” a military court in Cita, Russia’s Far East, was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.
In October 2019, he opened fire on the changing of the guard at the military base where he served, killing eight soldiers, including two officers, and wounding two others.
The young man, who was 19 years old at the time of the events, said a few weeks after the crimes that he had reacted in this way because of the “hell of divination” that he lived in the army.
“I am sorry that I could not contain myself and have taken an extreme measure, but I had no other choice,” he said in an open letter posted on social media, saying he was “in hell.”
The Russian media provided details of such “initiation actions”, explaining that the young soldier was subjected to permanent abuse and that his money and phone were confiscated upon arrival at the unit.
“Dedovsina” was one of the worst problems of the Russian army in the 1990s, although the situation has improved substantially in recent years.
However, according to human rights NGOs, initiation rituals are still common in Russia, where a significant part of the population evades compulsory military service for men between 18 and 27, precisely to escape “deduction” . “.
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