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Questions in Pankisi, after Georgian Security Services kill teen
As the number of arrests in the wake of November’s deadly counterterror siege grows, the killing by security forces of a 19-year-old in Pankisi has caused controversy. A 19-year-old terror suspect has died 15 days after being shot in the head, during a special operation in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley. Temirlan Machalikashvili, an ethnic Kist, was fatally wounded in his house on 26 December as Georgian security forces conducted a counterterror sweep. While the State Security Service of Geor
