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Director of children's charity, husband found shot to death in Chechnya
The head of a children's charity in Chechnya and her husband were found shot to death in the trunk of a car Tuesday in the latest sign of violence and lawlessness in the region and the Kremlin's inability to contain it.
The killings of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik Dzhabrailov, who together ran a center for children suffering from war injuries and trauma, came less than a month after the slaying of a colleague, the prominent human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, prompted international outrage.
Friends said the couple, recently married and in their mid-30s, stood out in the small community of Chechen aid workers because of their independence from the local authorities, and some suggested that the killings were intended to intimidate the few remaining activists left in Grozny, the Chechen capital.