Reply With QuoteWas he in any position of responsibility during the killings?Originally Posted by AurimasLT
The titles of your clips show your level of impartiality very clearly, haha. You are Baltic, aren't you? I bet that OMON article in Wiki, which Martin1 referred to, was written by people like you. I don't like OMON (or police in general), but Western sources are too much biased to provide a credible picture.
Was he in any position of responsibility during the killings?
The video was filmed in the summer of 2003 and originally surfaced on the internet Aug 2005. It created a big stir at the time as many thought the video was of an actual military/police stop, and thought the punched man died immediately after.
The video was staged by a soldier who had just bought a new camera phone and wanted to make a stupid video. They knew the man who was punched.. supposedly someone that worked part time near where OMOH were stationed. So the video was set up, the punch was real, but the man didn't die and was later interviewed by the media.
The soldiers in question were dismissed because of the outrage the video created at that time.
What War crime? Long term detention of a suspected Militant involved in an ambush on a convoy?
Sorry but your 'facts' are no match for Youtube Video Titles, take your logic somewhere useful like University or heaven forbid, the off topic and humor subject
Not really facts but an observation and as for forced disappearance he could still b sitting in Chornaya delphin for all we know, then again I'm not shedding any tears for those asshats who enjoy cutting off the heads and ********s of captured soldiers and police officers.
That being said RIP to the Lithuanian freedom fighters.
No need to explain yourself I was not being serious, Infact I had never looked up the background story to that first video so I learned something from it..... I was more pointing to the notion that People take the titles of Videos at face value is all....
and again as you said and I said earlier, RIP to the actual subject of this topic the Lithuanian Border Guards
Stay on topic please.
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I must correct myself, he (Konstantin Michailov) is already sentenced for life imprisonment. His case now is in revisions of appeals stage.
Other members of OMON group that directly committed execution are Cheslav Mlynik (commander of group), Andrej Laktionov and Aleksandr Ryzhov.
BTW Aleksnadr Ryzhov is sentenced for 15 years imprisonment in Russia for criminal activities not connected to Medininkai case.
He was the mastermind. Am i correct?
The OMON are not a special operations force and as such, are not subject to anywhere near the level of psychological and physical assessments used to select RF SOF, or the subsequent length and quality of training. The latter forces are actually rather very rarely shown in the media despite the confusion and over-use of the generic "spetsnaz" qualifier.
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