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English Language Page September 13, 2003. According to the reports of local residents, Khasan and Apti Alaudinov disappeared in the forest at the edge of the Makhkety village, Vedeno district. That morning the brothers went on their tractor into the forest to get firewood and did not come back. When the relatives searched the forest, they found the tractor but did not see any traces of Khasan or Apti. When the family of Alaudinov asked for help at the military unit located in the vicinity of the Makhkety village, they were told that a paratroopers unit was conducted an operation there and no search was possible in this area. Chechen Committee for National Salvation September 14, 2003. In the center of Grozny, in the building of the former supermarket, a mutilated body of the 28-year-old Aslambek Dikayev, resident of Duba-Yurt, Shali district, was discovered. As local residents report, the corpse retained traces of brutal torture. Evidently Dikayev fell the victim to extrajudicial killing on the part of some enforcement structures. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 15 September 2003. About 2 a.m. in the village of Avtury in the Shali district unknown armed people in masks and military uniforms shot to death Isa Magomedovich Musayev, born in 1971, living at 14, Titova Street. Late at night there was a knock on the door of the Musayev’s house. His wife Manash Abubakarova, born in 1973, thought it was an ID check by the military and opened the door without asking who it was. Four armed men in masks came in. They went straight to the room where Isa Musayev was sleeping, forced him out of his bed and put him up against a wall. They did not ask any questions, they did not want to see any documents — they shot Isa to death and hurriedly left the house. Manash Abubakarova with an 18-month-old baby in her arms tried to protect her husband but one of the assailants grabbed the baby from her and threw it on the floor, after which roughly pushed Manash against the wall injuring her shoulder. According to Manash Abubakarova, two of the assailants were Chechens and the other two were Russians. There were also some people in the street but she could not tell how many. Not long before his death, Musayev started to work as an extra-departmental guard in the town of Shali. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 15 September 2003. Two people were shot dead and two were heavily wounded at 1.30 p.m. in an attack in the center of the village of Sernovodsk in the Sunzha district where four policemen were having lunch at the Markha Café opposite the district administration building in Sovetskaya Street. Those policemen had been sent to the Sunzha police station from the town of Barnaul of the Altai territory over six months prior to the incident. According to eye-witnesses, while the policemen were having lunch under the tent round the corner of the café trailer, two young men of about 20 years of age came from the territory of the adjacent water tower. One of them was carrying a sports bag on his shoulder. They went round the trailer and opened fire from a sub-machine gun, which they took out of the bag, emptying the magazine. After that they put the gun back into the bag and strolled in the direction of the Rechnaya Street. Witnesses insist that while one of the men was shooting, the other one was filming the scene on a video camera. At the moment of the attack there were some people in front of the district administration building. However, these involuntary witnesses of the attack were shocked by what they had just seen and did not take any steps to detain the assailants. Villagers that happened to be nearby hailed a shuttle service minivan and rushed the wounded policemen to the local hospital, where they were given first aid. Some time later an ambulance took the policemen to the central district hospital in the village of Ordjonikidzhevskaya (Sunzha district, Republic of Ingushetiya). According to a nurse, one of the wounded policemen told that it was local policemen who shot them. The bodies of the two killed policemen were left at the scene of the crime till the arrival of FSB agents from Achkhoi-Martan and Grozny. One of the killed policemen, a major, was deputy chief of police for public security. The villagers had a very good opinion of the killed policemen: in their words, “They were orderly in carrying out their military duties and even provided assistance in the issuance of passports to the local people.” In temporary placement centers they gave consultation to internally displaced people on issues of temporary registration. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 15 September 2003. Residents of the village of Avtury in the Shali district reported that armed people in masks kidnapped Mokhmad Saidayev, 40 year of age, a father of 5 small children, from his home. According to relatives and acquaintances, Saidayev was a prominent religious activist respected by his fellow villagers. It is not yet known who stands behind the kidnapping of Mokhmad Saidayev. In 2002 Saidayev’s 15-year-old son, suffering from a heavy form of a psychiatric decease, was shot dead by the Russian federal forces. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 16 September 2003. After 9.00 a.m. agents of the FSB of the Achkhoi-Martan district carried out a mop-up operation to check compliance with the residence registration requirements in the village of Sernovodsk in the Sunzha district. The operation was in response to an armed attack on Russian policemen the day before. The agents arrived in Sernovodsk in an armored personnel carrier, an UAZ-452 and an UAZ-469, all vehicles having number plates. Some of the agents were in masks. During their raid of the village they were accompanied by Lom-Ali Khildikhoroev, a district policeman. Leaving the APC near the police station building, the FSB men moved around the village in the two UAZ cars. The UAZ-469 stopped in front of the building of the secondary school #3. Four of the FSB men went inside and detained, right in class, Movli Batalov, an eighth-grader. The other group of the agents moved to Gorky Street, where they detained Bekkhan Sulaev, born in 1983. According to relatives, Bekkhan lived at home during the whole war and there was no evidence as to any illegal activities on his behalf. His older brother was killed during the operation in the village of Komsomolskoye (March 2000). Both detainees were taken to the building of the Sunzha police. Three hours later M. Batalov was released. According to the boy, the interrogators were interested in the whereabouts of his older brother Kazbek. Sulaev was released at about 6.00 pm. He was asked questions about his whereabouts during the second war and whether he had heard anything related to the killing of the policemen. Neither of the two detainees were beaten, offended or humiliated during the interrogations. At 4:30 p.m. detained on the territory of the Agricultural College campus and taken to the police department was resident of the village of Samashky Musa Nazirov, a third-year student at the Agricultural College. Reportedly, he was arrested for irregularities with his address registration, although he had on him both his passport and his student’s record book. He was detained by armed people without masks, identifying themselves as agents of the security service of A. Kadyrov. They had come to the village in four grey UAZ vehicles with number plates. The agents randomly stopped several people in the yard of the college and near the faculty building and checked their documents. When Nazirov produced his passport and student’s record book, he was detained for alleged irregularities with his residences registration. The detention was performed without rudeness and the detainee was told that he would be taken to the district police department, “everything would be clarified and he would be released.” Despite that, several staff members of the Agricultural College went to the police: Nadezhda Madagova, Deputy Director for Educational Work, Sergei Popov, Chairman of Department, Bavdi Magamaev, Deputy Director for Administrative and Economic Activities, and Sultan Irbaiev, who provided guarantees with respect to their student. After their intervention Nazirov was released. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 16 September 2003. A member of the Ichkeria armed formations, with the family name Yandarbaev, and his nineteen-year-old niece were killed in the morning in the Novie Atagy village, Shali district. Half an hour before Yandarbaev came to visit his brother’s family. His brother had been killed in 2000 in a helicopter shoot-out at Shali. Suddenly eight armored UAZ vehicles stopped at the house and people in camouflage uniforms surrounded it and opened gun-fire. At that time Yandarbaev’s sister-in-law, her nineteen-year-old daughter, his two-year-old grand-daughter and his paralyzed grandmother were in the house. The attackers did not call on Yandarbaev to surrender and made no attempts to spare the women. The young girl was instantly hit and died (later eleven bullet wounds were found on her body). Yandarbaev moved the paralyzed old woman to the floor, covered her with cushions and then urged his sister-in-law to flee through the window. She took the young child and started running. The attackers shouted after her, “We let you live only because of the little bastard! “ Then Yandarbaev opened fire, wounded two of his attackers and was killed. The attackers made his neighbor go and take his gun and his documents. Then they put the body onto a truck, searched the house, and while doing so, stole some money. “Memorial” Human Rights Center September 16, 2003. A mutilated corpse was discovered on the outskirts of the village of Bachy-Yurt in the Kurchaloi district. The corps was moved to the mosque of the village of Ilaskhan-Yurt in the Gudermes district. On the same day relatives identified the dead person as Shamil-Hadji Abusoltovich Elmurzaev, born in 1968 and living in a newly-built residential complex on the south-eastern outskirts of the village of Ilaskhan-Yurt Numerous evidence of torture was to be seen on the corps with the legs and the arms broken. Traditionally, Chechens show the body of a dead person to relatives after ablution, but the body of Shamil-Hadji was in such a state that he was buried without being shown to his female relatives. A week earlier Shamil-Hadji had been arrested in a coffee shop in Grozny by agents of local law-enforcement organs. Shamil-Hadji was a member of the armed formations of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, but applied to R. Kadyrov for amnesty. According to his relatives, he was assured as to the possibility of being granted amnesty; however, he was later arrested and disappeared. “Memorial” Human Rights Center Back |
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