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English Language Page 23 August 2003. The outskirts of the Serzhen-Yurt village in the Shali district came under yet another artillery attack from the stationing positions of a federal forces unit in the town of Shali, near the territory of a former military base. Local residents spent the whole night in the basements of their houses. Several houses were seriously damaged in the attack (holes in roofs, windows shattered and doors brought down). Partly destroyed was the house of a famous actor Dagun Omaev at 104, Aslambek Sherilov Street. Shell-splinters killed a cow in the neighboring house of Barznukaevs. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 26 August 2003. At 7.00 a.m. an incident fraught with casualties among civilians occurred in the village of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali district in Aslambek Sherilov Street in the southern section of the village. A Russian federal forces armored personnel carrier sped through the village almost running down a group of women sending their cattle off to grass. Without slowing down, the armored personnel carrier roared into the yard of Nasukhanovs’ house. The carrier brought down the wall and came to a halt in the bedroom of Askhab Nasukhanov. Askhab, his wife and three small children survived by a miracle. They did not have the time to recover from the shock, when the carrier backed up, pulled down the fence and sped in the direction of the Vedeno district. As a result of this visit on behalf of the military, part of the house was destroyed and all property in the house was rendered useless. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 26 August 2003. Abdul-Wahid, mufti of the Vedeno district, and his bodyguard were killed in the village of Elistanzhi. According to villagers, at night a group of armed Chechens took them out of the house and one of the killers read out some sort of an order. After that the mufti was shot dead and his bodyguard was stabbed to death. Villagers point out that Abdul-Wahid was a close friend of Ahmat Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Administration. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 27 August 2003. In the village of Valerik in the Achkhoi-Martan district agents of the local military commandant’s office arbitrarily arrested Wakha Idigov, 50 y.o., in his own home and drove him away in an unknown direction. At the moment of the arrest he was in bed and sick. According to relatives, Wakha Idigov was taken hostage because of his son Ramzan Idigov, whom the federal forces considered to be a guerilla. When arrested, Wakha was told that a mandatory condition for his release was his son's surrender to the military authorities. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 1 September 2003. At 2.00 a.m. on September 1, 2003 armed people in military uniforms burst into the house of the Migiev family in Stepnaya Street in the village of Orekhovo in Achkhoi-Martan district and took away their only son — Imran Migiev (born in 1964). On the next morning the body of Migiev was discovered some 50 meters away from his home. He was stabbed to death by a hilted bayonet. According to villagers, Imran was a peaceful person delivering water around the village in his own car and was in no way engaged in military resistance to the federal forces. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 1 September 2003. In the eastern suburbs of the town of Gudermes, near a filling station, some 150 meters from the location of the local police department, the body of Aslan Shakhidovich Usmayev of the village of Tsentrovaya was found. On one of his legs he had an Ilizarov correction device. As found out later, A. Usmaev had undergone an operation in the Gudermes сity hospital #2. On August 31, at midnight, armed people in masks arrived in an UAZ jeep and stormed into the hospital kidnapping A. Usmaev and a friend of Usmaev’s looking after him in the hospital The same night Usmaev's friend was released. The murder of Usmayev was not reported to the law-enforcing bodies. “Memorial” Human Rights Center Back |
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