{"id":42232,"date":"2020-01-12T09:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42232"},"modified":"2020-01-12T09:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T09:22:03","slug":"russian-soldier-accused-of-mass-shooting-says-he-was-victim-of-hazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42232","title":{"rendered":"Russian soldier accused of mass shooting says he was victim of hazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-text\">\n<div class=\"l-container\" readability=\"33.016129032258\">\n<p>Ramil Shamsutdinov allegedly opened fire on colleagues at a military garrison near the city of Chita, Siberia on October 25, 2019. <\/p>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/25\/europe\/russian-soldier-mass-shooting-siberia-intl\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive\" alt=\"Russian soldier kills 8 colleagues in mass shooting at Siberian military base\" data-src-mini=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-full-169.jpg\" data-src-mini1x1=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-small-11.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"not-loaded\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Russian soldier kills 8 colleagues in mass shooting at Siberian military base\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191029123427-02-ramil-shamsutdinov-large-169.jpg\"><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Ministry of Defense said that the soldier committed the crime as a result of a nervous breakdown caused by personal circumstances,&#8221; TASS reported.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the same time, he, as well as other several soldiers are regarded as victims in a criminal case dealing with hazing in the military unit,&#8221; the agency added. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter obtained from the accused&#8217;s father and published by TASS, Shamsutdinov apologized to the families of his alleged victims. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\" readability=\"41\">\n<p>&#8220;I regret that I could not restrain myself and took an extreme step, but I had no other choice &#8212; I could not endure being harassed any more,&#8221; Shamsutdinov wrote. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims and please forgive me if you can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A system of pervasive hazing was once common in the Russian and Soviet militaries, and bullied soldiers sometimes turned their weapons on colleagues. Such cases are relatively rare today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph zn-body__footer\">CNN&#8217;s Nathan Hodge and Mary Ilyushina contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramil Shamsutdinov allegedly opened fire on colleagues at a military garrison near the city of Chita, Siberia on October 25, 2019. &#8220;The Ministry of Defense said that the soldier committed the crime as a result of a nervous breakdown caused by personal circumstances,&#8221; TASS reported. &#8220;At the same time, he, as well as other several&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}