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English Language Page 2 September 2003. Saipuddin Tsitsayev, head of the administration in the village of Chechen-Aul near Grozny was killed at dawn. Unknown armed people in masks stormed into Tsatsayev’s house, dragged Saipuddin into the yard and shot him dead. A criminal case was initiated in relation to this murder; investigation is conducted by the police precinct of the Groznoselsky district. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 3 September 2003. Not far from the village of Kulary in the Urus-Martan district, Russian soldiers detained a person named Akhmed Magomedovich Katraev (born in 1977), a resident of the above village registered at 7, Sovetskaya Street. The military claim that a mine was found in Katraev’s car whereas representatives of the village administration and his fellow-villagers are sure it was a setup. According to the police, the car of the detained person had been looted by soldiers. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 4 September 2003. At around 4.45 a.m. agents of an unknown law-enforcement structure of the Chechen Republic arrested and drove away Irskhan Khaditovich Edilkhanov (born in 1984) living at 5, Melnichnaya Street in the village of Khamby-Irze (Lermontovo) of the Achkhoi-Martan district. According to Khadid Edilkhanov, the father of the detainee, as many as 10 armed people in masks and military uniforms stormed into the house early in the morning. Waiving their guns, they threw all the residents of the house on the floor with their faces down, seized Irskhan, tied up his hands and put a bag on his head. After that they took him out of the house and into a gray UAZ-452 vehicle without number plates. Some of the neighbors tried to stop the kidnappers and block their three cars, but the agents opened fire above the peoples heads and escaped. Two hours later Irskhan Edilkhanov’s relatives reported the incident to the local police and the district department of the Federal Security Service but were told that no arrests had been performed by the agents of these services and no information on the case was available to them. Edilkhanov’s relatives have no clue as to the reasons for Irskhan’s arrest. According to them, he has never been part of any illegal organization; on the other hand, he has recently passed a medical commission of the Interior Ministry for the purpose of joining the police force of the Achkhoi-Martan district. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 7 September 2003. In the depth of the night on September 6, 2003, the town of Urus-Martan came under intensive artillery fire from the positions of a federal forces unit. A local resident reported over ten explosions of shells of various caliber. Residents of Urus-Martan spent the night in the basements trying to calm down their frightened children. Several houses in various parts of town were damaged (shattered window panes, damaged roofs). A shell hit a house on the junction of Gagarin and Nekrasov streets. Luckily, there were no casualties because the house had been partly destroyed back in 2002 and had been deserted ever since. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 7 September 2003. Five local residents were arrested by the Russian federal forces in the village of Chiri-Yurt in the Groznoselsky district. According to some sources, two of the detainees were abandoned on the outskirts of the village after being severely tortured and beaten up. The whereabouts and destiny of the other three detainees are unknown. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 8 September 2003. Local residents of the village of Elistanzhi in the Vedeno district reported the kidnapping of their fellow-villager Danilbek Gunukbaev, 70 y.o. The old man sent his cattle to grass on the outskirts of the village and never came back. His relatives organized a search party but to no avail. After that they turned for assistance to the local military commandant’s office. The military, however, refused cooperation saying that a unit of paratroopers was on a mission in the district and no steps could possibly be taken before the end of that mission. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 9 September 2003. A land mine exploded in Grozny, on the junction of Kassiora and Tukhachevsky streets. As a result, five people were injured — three policemen and two civilians (a man and a woman) who happened to be nearby. They were all taken to the city hospital #9. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 9 September 2003. Three local female residents — Mart Makhauri, 45 (a mother of eight children, two of whom sick), Rosa Adayeva, 41 y.o. (a mother of nine, including a baby of nine months) and one more woman (a still unidentified refugee) were killed and three children of Rosa Adayeva (two girls and one boy) were injured in an explosion of a self-made land mine in the village of Assinovskaya in the Sunzha district on their way from a tomato field. Hassan Adayev, the husband of Rosa Adayeva, was driving the tractor with the women and the children in the tractor carriage. When they approached the location of the former sovkhoz (state farm) weighting facility (at present there is a bus stop in the vicinity), a mine exploded under the tractor carriage. Two women were killed on the spot while the others were rushed to the hospitals in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya (Republic of Ingushetia) and the town of Urus-Martan. On the scene of the explosion a plastic bottle was discovered with a remote control and lines going sideways. The mine had been planted right on the road. A demining unit located at the village of Assinovskaya arrived at the scene of this terrorist attack. They demined another similar mine that failed to explode. A criminal case was initiated by the prosecutor’s office of the Sunzha district of the Chechen Republic. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 10 September 2003. At 8.55 p.m. Chechen insurgents took over the local TV center in the village of Sernovodsk in the Sunzha district. Magomed Astamirov, director of the local TV center, was forced, under the threat of weapon, to play a videocassette with scenes from the first and second wars, an address by A. Maskhadov, etc. brought by the paramilitaries. After the viewing of the cassette was over, Seid-Magomed Islamov, the leader of the armed group, called on the villagers to stage armed resistance to the “Russian invaders and local administration employees bought out by them.” According to Madina Musayeva, an internally displaced person living in the temporary placement center (PVR), a group of 15–20 assailants blocked off the camp in the building of the agricultural college. Some of the insurgents went into the buiding of the college. Then several combattant forced their way into the local TV center while another group was about to break down the door of the office of the Memorial Human Rights Center. Residents of the PVR managed to talk the paramilitaries out of breaking into the office of the human rights activists. At the same time another group of paramilitaries blocked off the electric power plant substation on the agricultural college campus to prevent a power blackout. One more group of paramilitaries opened automatic and bazooka fire on the local police station. No casualties were reported either among the assailants or the policemen. The police building is reported to have suffered only insignificant damages. The fourth group of the paramilitaries destroyed the local pre-election headquarters of A.Kadyrov in Nagi Asyev Street, while in the Lenin and Kirov streets they fired their guns and shouted “Allah Akbar!” telling onlookers to go home and watch the local TV channel. After that, meeting no resistance from the Russian law-enforcement structures, the paramilitaries went away. The overall attack was carried out in an efficient and calm manner and was coordinated with the help of walkie-talkies. The same night, paramilitaries also visited the village of Assinivskaya where they strolled along the streets shouting “Allah Akbar!” and shooting chaotically. According to witnesses, the paramilitaries filmed their activities on video. The activities of all these armed groups seemed to be very well planned. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 10 September 2003. Chaotic gunfire was reported around 11 p.m. in the Avtarkhanovsky (Leninsky) district of Grozny. The fire was coming from the sixth microdistrict, parallel to the Kirov Avenue. Bullets were hitting the walls the residential buildings. Residents of the district spent the night in fear, lying on the floor and being afraid to come near a window. According to residents, the fire came from the federal forces check-point at the end of the sixth microdistrict. Luckily, there were no casualties. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 11 September 2003. One of the microdistricts of the Leninsky district in Grozny was completely blocked off. In some of the areas the cordons were much stronger than usual, documents were checked and even agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law-enforcement structures were not allowed to pass. The police referred to the order of the Minister of Internal Affairs on the passport (registration) regime checks. No reports are available on the number of the detained and the number people with administrative punishments for violating the passport regime. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 11 September 2003. In the depth of the night the village of Makhkety in the Vedeno district came under artillery attack on behalf of the Russian federal forces. According to local residents, some of the private houses were partly damaged with shell-splinters shattering windowpanes and damaging roofs. No casualties among the civilian population reported. Chechen Committee for National Salvation Back |
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