licants' two relatives had not been completed, and that therefore the domestic remedies had not been exhausted in respect of the applicants' complaints.
88. The applicants called into question the effectiveness of the investigation, stating that it had been ongoing for several years but had not produced any meaningful results.
89. The Court considers that the Government's objection as to the exhaustion of domestic remedies raises issues which are closely linked to the question of the effectiveness of the investigation. It therefore decides to examine this objection together with the applicants' complaint under the procedural limb of Article 2 of the Convention.
III. Alleged violation of Article 2 of the Convention
90. The applicants complained of a violation of the right to life in respect of their close relatives, Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev. The applicants submitted that the circumstances of their disappearance and the long period during which it had not been possible to establish their whereabouts indicated that Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev had been killed by representatives of the federal forces. The applicants also complained that no effective investigation had been conducted into their relatives' disappearance. They relied on Article 2 of the Convention, which reads as follows:
"1. Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.
2. Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary:
(a) in defence of any person from unlawful violence;
(b) in order to effect a lawful arrest or to prevent the escape of a person lawfully detained;
(c) in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection."
A. Alleged failure to protect the right to life
1. Submissions by the parties
(a) The applicants
91. The applicants maintained their complaint. They insisted that Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev had been taken by representatives of the State in life-threatening circumstances, and the fact that they remained missing for several years proved that they had been killed. They pointed out, in particular, that the federal forces had regained control over the city of Grozny long before 13 February 2003, the date of the incident.
92. The applicants also submitted a handwritten map of the area around the block of flats at 24 Ioanisiani Street, indicating that at the time their relatives were taken away there had been four federal check-points in that area. The applicants argued that the perpetrators could not have passed through any of those check-points without the authorisation of the servicemen on duty at those check-points.
93. The applicants further maintained that at the relevant time there had been a restriction on the movement of vehicles in Grozny, and reiterated their submission that on the night of the incident the fourth applicant had seen the tracks of APCs leading in the direction of the main federal military base in Khankala.
(b) The Government
94. The Government argued that there were no grounds to hold the State responsible for the alleged violations of Article 2 of the Convention in the present case. They contended that there was no conclusive evidence that the applicants' relatives were dead and that the investigation had obtained no evidence that representatives of the State had been involved in the abduction of the Yansuyev brothers. They referred, in particular, to the replies of various State bodies obtained by the investigating authorities stating that none of those bodies h
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