Their Uncle Ruslan is alright. When asked what could have provoked the attacks by his nephews Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tsarni said “hatred toward those who were able to settle themselves,” and “being losers".
“Tamerlan stops to answer a phone call while walking from his Mercedes to the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center, where he practices boxing.”
Bombing suspects’ uncle Ruslan Tsarni: ‘They do not deserve to live on this earth’
As the hunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — the second suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombings — continues, one member of the terrorists’ family has spoken out against them. Ruslan Tsarni, who says he is the uncle of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had an animated discussion with reporters on Friday morning.
“He deserved (to die),” Tsarni said of his nephew who was shot and killed by police.
Uncle Tsarni made it clear that he had not spoken to his nephews in months and did not have a close relationship with them. It also sounded like he does not have much of a relationship with his brother, who is the father of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan. When asked what could have influenced them to become terrorists, Tsarni said they may have been “radicalized” and were “losers” who did not like that others were able to “settle” while they weren’t. He said his brother had “little influence” over them.
“They put a shame on the Tsarnaev family,” Tsarni said. “They put a shame on the entire Chechnyan ethnicity.”
While Tsarni said Dzhokhar and Tamerlan in no way represent their family as a whole, he emphatically offered support for those who have been affected by their actions and said he asks for their forgiveness.
“Those who suffered, I’m ready to band with them,” Tsarni said. “I’m ready to kneel in front of them and ask for forgiveness in the name of the entire family.”
“I respect this country and I love this country,” he said about the United States.
When asked what could have provoked the attacks, Tsarni said “hatred toward those who were able to settle themselves,” and “being losers.”
“Of course we’re ashamed,” he said.
Tsarni, a Muslim, took a strong stance and said this attack has nothing to do with religion or Islam.
“He put a shame on our family,” he said. “He put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity.”
Tsarni has not seen his nephews since they were children but believes someone radicalized them and insists it was not his brother, the suspects’ father.
He said that he had encouraged his own family to stay away from that part of the family.
Another uncle came forward, Alvi Tsarni, who told CBS News he also had not spoken to his nephews in years.
That changed last night when Tamerlan called him to apologize for that.
“Yesterday he called me and said ‘forgive me,’” Alvi Tsarni said.
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