INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian law enforcement officersseized weapons and handed out military summons to Roma amid a fresh wave of police raids in the Chelyabinsk
region, where a murder last month ignited long-simmering ethnic tensions and sparked local reprisals against the local Romani
describing the crackdown as collective punishment against Roma.Police officers, Federal Security Service (FSB) agents and National Guard
soldiers conducted checks of 70 people at 15 separate addresses in the town of Troitsk, according to an Interior Ministry statementpublished
An accompanying video showed men in uniform entering private homes, where male residents were shown standing or lying with hands behind
number of residents were handed military summons, police said, adding that they plan to carry out more raids in the future.Troitsk lies
around 100 kilometers (57 miles) south of Korkino, where residents damaged property and clashed with riot police last month amid rumors that
two Romani men stabbed a woman to death.Regional investigators arrested a 17-year-old male on suspicion of killing the woman, a taxi driver
who had been driving him home as a passenger
He wasplaced in pre-trial detention until Dec
24.Days later, Chelyabinsk region Governor Alexei Teksler ordered police raids at the homes of Romani residents as he reprimanded local
