el fighters.
49. The applicant pointed out that the Government were not justified in referring to the materials of the investigation in case No. 34051 to corroborate their arguments, given that they had refused to produce a copy of any single document from the file.
50. The applicant further argued that she had been unable to see any insignia on the uniforms of the men who had taken away her son, as it was very often that servicemen of the federal forces or officers of security agencies bore no insignia at all. She further contradicted the Government's argument that camouflage uniforms could be purchased by anyone. In this respect the applicant contended that immediately after the beginning of military conflict in the Chechen Republic in the autumn of 1999 camouflage uniforms had been withdrawn from unrestricted sale, and subsequently representatives of the federal forces had seized such uniforms and detained private individuals who had them. The applicant thus argued that in 2003 it was only representatives of the federal forces who could have used camouflage uniforms. The applicant also contested the Government's argument that the fact that the alleged perpetrators had Slavic features and spoke Russian could not prove their attachment to the Russian military, as ethnic Russians or Ukrainians had been members of illegal armed groups. She stated in this respect that the Government's allegation of the possible involvement of any such persons in her son's abduction had not been supported by any reliable arguments or evidence.
51. The applicant contended that Mr Khanpasha Dzhabrailov could be presumed dead, given that he had been taken away in life-threatening circumstances, that he had remained missing for several years and that there had been no news of him since the date when he was abducted. She submitted that the Government had advanced no reasons to justify the taking of her son's life, and that therefore they should be held responsible for the violation of Article 2 of the Convention in this respect.
(ii) The Government
52. 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 applicant's son was dead, as his corpse had never been found, and that the investigation had obtained no evidence that representatives of the State had been involved in his abduction. They referred, in particular, to the replies of various State bodies obtained by the investigating authorities to the effect that none of those bodies had detained Mr Khanpasha Dzhabrailov or brought criminal proceedings against him, that he was not held in any detention centres, and that no special operations had been conducted in Goyty during the relevant period.
53. The Government contended that the authorities had no motive to detain Mr Khanpasha Dzhabrailov, whereas private individuals could have had such motives, such as revenge. In this connection, the Government alleged that the criminal investigation file contained a report on Mr Khanpasha Dzhabrailov's personality drawn up by a district police officer of the village of Goyty, from which it followed that the applicant's son had had poor relations, and conflicts, with his neighbours and other residents of Goyty.
54. The Government further argued that the applicant had not given any reliable evidence to corroborate her allegations concerning the involvement of State agents in the abduction. In particular, the applicant and other eyewitnesses to the abduction had not indicated whether the camouflage uniforms worn by the abductors had borne any insignia of the type that should normally appear on uniforms of State agents. Moreover, it was only the applicant, her daughter and daughter-in-law who had stated that the abductors had arrived in vehicl
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