OMON was often accused of severe human rights abuses during the course of the conflict , including abducting , torturing , raping and killing civilians . By 2000 , the bulk of such crimes , as recorded by international organisations in Chechnya , appeared to have been committed either by or with the participation of OMON . Moscow region OMON took part in the April 1995 rampage in the village of Samashki , where up to 300 civilians were reportedly killed during a large-scale brutal '' cleansing '' operation by federal MVD forces . In December 1999 , a group of unidentified OMON members manning a roadblock checkpoint shot dead around forty refugees fleeing the siege of Grozny . OMON from Saint Petersburg are believed to have been behind the February 2000 Novye Aldi massacre in which at least sixty civilians were robbed and then killed by Russian forces entering Grozny after the fall of the city ; one officer , Sergei Babin , was to be prosecuted in relation to the case in 2005 but he vanished . In April 2006 , the European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of the forced disappearance of Shakhid Baysayev , a Chechen man who had gone missing after being detained in a March 2000 security sweep by Russian OMON in Grozny . In 2007 , Khanty – Mansi Autonomous Okrug OMON officer Sergei Lapin was sentenced for the kidnapping and torture of a Chechen man in Grozny in 2001 , with the Grozny court criticising the conduct of the OMON serving in Chechnya in broader terms . In an event related to the conflict in Chechnya , several OMON officers were also accused of starting the May 2007 wave of ethnic violence in Stavropol by assisting in the racially motivated murder of a local Chechen man
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