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English Language Page September 20, 2003. As local residents report, in the village of Elistanzhi, Vedeno district, the Russian military captured and took in an unknown direction the Yunusovs, father and son. According to the relatives of the kidnapped persons, Samrail Yunusov and his aged father Said Selim were kidnapped by the men from the 45th regiment of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation. This paratrooper’s unit was often accused by the residents of Vedeno district of arbitrary violence against peaceful people, and it is located near the village of Khattuni. The relatives of the kidnapped persons tried in vain to establish their rate. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 20 September 2003. Military from the 45th special air-force landing troops unit, quartered near the village of Khatuny arrived at the village of Elistandzhi, Vedeno district and undertook a special search operation. All night military vehicles traveled through the village. The military seized and took with themselves two brothers. They also took the passports and cars of several residents. The next day the brothers were set free. There was not a single local policeman during the special operation, although the special unit of the military commandment under Sulim Amadaev is based in the region. “Memorial” Human Rights Center September 21, 2003. One policeman from the Bashkir Republic was killed in the Urus-Martan district in a fight between the Chechen and Bashkir special police task force units. The incident took place at the check-point between Urus-Martan and the village of Gekhi. It was Sunday, a day when people usually come to the fair in Urus-Martan. The men of the Bashkir special police task force who were on duty barred the way leaving enough space for one car to pass. This way it was easy for policemen to extort payment for the passage through the check-point. This resulted in a jam on the road. At some point, having left his car in the jam a man from the Chechen special police task force came out to the check-point. Showing his ID he asked the patrol on duty to let him through. The man on duty responded with insults and a fight broke out between the policemen. When the law enforcers were dragged apart, the Chechen policeman radioed for help, and when the help arrived the fight continued on a massive scale. In the course of the fight one Bashkir policeman was shot while the others, deserting their weapons, fled into the field. Two more Russian policemen injured during the fight were pushed by the Chechen policemen into their car and taken away. It is known at present that the Chechen policeman who wanted to be let through was a resident of the Shalazhi village of the Urus-Martan district. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 22 September 2003. According to local residents, collaborators of Russian and Chechen power groups kidnapped an officer of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zelymkhan Zakriev, in the village of Novie Aldy, Zavodsk district. As evidenced by relatives of the policeman, a group of masked Russian military broke in Zakriev’s house around 4 a.m. The attackers woke up Zelymkhan, beat him up with their rifles, took him to the street, threw him in a car, and drove away. Zakriev’s mother reported that one of the Russian military told her, that she would never see her son again. The attempts of the kidnapped officer’s relatives to establish his whereabouts and fate were unsuccessful. Zelymkhan Zakriev is considered missing. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 23 September 2003. The residents of the Goi-Chu settlement (Komsomolskoye), of the Urus-Martan region have made an official appeal to the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Human Rights in Chechnya, Sultygov. The appeal has been signed by 52 persons. The appeal text is cited unaltered by the“Memorial” Human Rights Center: “A very disturbing situation is developing around the preparation of the compensation payments to the people, who lost their housing and property in the process of the crisis salvation in the Chechen Republic. The tragic example of the ruined settlement Komsomolskoye shows that these payments won’t be carried out smoothly. First of all, lots of us are not satisfied with 300, 000 roubels, which made it impossible to build up a two — three room house. And that is without taking into consideration the reconstruction of the whole household stock — gates, fences, cattle etc. Secondly, in summer 2000, the special acts were composed and approved of by a region commission (OKS) in every farmyard, where the precise devastation level of housing and household stock was registered. Thirdly, before the referendum it was declared, that each family member should have 18 square meter living space, and that one square meter of it costs 8,400 rubels. The Chief of the State Building Ministry of the Russian Federation, N. Koshman, announced this sum in the republican TV program “Hero of the Day.” But after the referendum it was decided to make everybody equal. In late of the year 2001 representatives of the Danish Refugee Council introduced the initiative to create living accomodations to everybody who would like to return home. Roof material, windows, doors, floors, glass, cement were promised. It was assured, that this support won’t be taken into regard during compensation payments. Afterwards, a part of the population agreed to receive the humanitarian help. In October — November 2001 people got 10 till 102 sheets of slate and roof building material. But the program was stopped because of the war in Afghanistan. As many recipients were not living in the settlement, the main part of the help was interrupted in winter. When our settlement was being destroyed and thousands of the residents, from the young till the olds, were hold blocked on settlement suburbs during twenty-four hours (and that is by cold weather at the end of March!), the regional authority did not worry about our situation. Apart from the several visits of the assistants of the region’s Chief and the mayor of Urus-Martan, who nevertheless failed to come to any solution. Thousand of hostages witnessed the settlement destruction. There could be seen, how large cargo military transporters were carrying out people’s house property. On some reason, nobody speaks now about the moral injury. Nobody in the region has ever shown the willingness to take up the care about living conditions management of refugees. All things are just let slide. Four months have been gone since charitable actions of the Danish Refugee Council were taken upon. But many people are expelled from the lists, and the rest receive a half of the ration. It seems to be, that years of wandering and living in strangers’ houses must have increased our wealth. Dear Mr. Sultygov! In our long appeal we insistently ask you to defend our violated rights. We are not satisfied with that egalitarianism, because it does not suit our demands. Far more barbaric is the declaration of the regional authority and of the members of the «flying commission» that is not interested in a precise definition of how many families has a household. Only one family (of a household) has a chance to be included in the lists for receiving compensation payments. And another family would have to wait for another ten years to receive a restoration of their rights. In the unlucky case of receiving one sheet of slate from the Danish Refugee Council, one has to forget the compensation for lost housing. At the end of the appeal we would like to make a statement, that nobody takes the problems of our settlement seriously. The interests of the suffering people are not being counted for. In that regard, we ask you to defend our legal rights and to take under control the situation in the village.” 23 September 2003. For the whole day the gas supply of the city of Grozny was interrupted. According to reports, the gas supply was shut off because of a strike of workers from “Grozneftyegas” company. The strike was triggered by the killing of one of the workers from that industrial plant, which the Russian military was guilty of. The day before, a group of workers from “Grozneftegas” travelled to the Shali district of the Chechen Republic to repair the gas pipe line around the settlement Chiri-Yurt. During the night, a worker went outside to manage his own business and was killed by Russian soldiers. Such arbitrariness outraged the workers of “Grozneftegas,” who called a strike and demanded to find and punish the killers of their colleague. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 24 September 2003. Around 5 a.m. in the stanitsa of Novoshchedrinskaya, Shelkovsky district, unidentified people, allegedly members of Russian law-enforcement structures, kidnapped Ruslan Uvaysovich Merzaev, born in 1974. In the words of his relatives speaking with representatives of the “Memorial” Human Rights Center, unknown people entered the house and, without letting the hosts turn on the lights, started pointing a flashlight at their faces. The visitors spoke in Russian without any accent. Seeing Ruslan, they immediately took him out of the house and led him away in an unknown direction. According to his relatives, he was first taken to the local commandant’s office. His relatives believe that the kidnapping came as a result of an incident on 8 September 2003. On that day R. Mersaev went fishing and witnessed a blowup of the bridge over the river. Ruslan got scared and ran away but was stopped by the military that were present at the explosion. They came to his house, checked his documents and let him go. On 28 September the villagers blocked the road to Kyzlyar. On October 1, F.Klintsevich, Russian State Duma deputy, and Kh.Yamadaev, representative of the “United Russia” party in Chechnya, visited the improvised roadblock and promised to find the kidnapped person. However, the protesters did not unblock the road. Later that day the head of the district administration also promised he would show up together with R.Merzaev, but did not keep this promise. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 26 September 2003. In broad daylight, Russian soldiers kidnapped Elina Gakayeva, a 19-year-old female student at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, from the Chechen State University (CSU) campus in Grozny. According to witnesses, the military came in an APC with mud-covered number plates, seized the girl who was standing at the entrance to the University building, forced her into the APC and drove off in an unknown direction. On 30 September 2003, many people, including CSU students, relatives, neighbors, and friends of the kidnapped girl, gathered in the city center, in front of the House of Government. They urged the authorities to take all necessary steps to find and release Elina Gakayeva. According to unconfirmed information, in the evening of the same day the girl was released and returned home. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 27 September 2003. According to residents of the village of Chechen-Aul in the Groznoselsky district, around 4 a.m., armed people in masks and military uniforms killed two old men and their sons in their own houses. The names of the victims are being identified. In the words of the villagers, the victims were in no way related to the military operations in the Chechen Republic and were not engaged in any blameworthy activity. There is no clue as to the reason for their murder or the identities of the killers. Chechen Committee for National Salvation 28 September 2003. At night, armed people in masks and military uniforms kidnapped Musa Ganayev (about 30 years of age) in the village of Roshni-Chu in the Achkhoi-Martan district. According to his relatives, the kidnappers were agents of Russian law-enforcement structures. They dragged Musa out of bed, took him out on the street and drove off in an unknown direction. All efforts to ascertain his whereabouts were in vain. Agents of the district law-enforcement authorities (military commandant’s office, police, etc.) refuse to acknowledge the fact of Musa Ganayev’s detention. The reason for his kidnapping is still unknown. Chechen Committee for National Salvation In the evening in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny unknown people opened fire at an UAZ car with four police officers inside. As a result, three policemen were killed and one wounded. The attackers escaped in an unknown direction. The steps taken by the Russian law-enforcement authorities under the “Perekhvat” (Interception) plan produced no results. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 29 September 2003. A powerful explosion killed two Russian deminers on the Argun-Belgatoy highway in the Shali district during a mine clearance operation. After the explosion the highway to Belgatoy was blocked by the federal forces for several hours. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 30 September 2003. In the morning all points of entry to Grozny were blocked by the federal forces. In the words of a female resident of the Chechen capital, who made an effort to enter the city, the bus from Sleptsovskaya (Ingushetia) and several cars driving after it came under fire from the check-point near the village of Chernorechye. No casualties were reported. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 1 October 2003. Musa Dakaev, the head of administration of Shali, born 1948, and his son Said-Selim Dakaev, born 1972, were found being killed by unknown persons on 5 p.m. in a suburb of the city, when they were on their way home with their car. When the car passed by the cemetery, a white “Zhiguli” car with unknown armed persons in masks came along, stopped, and the men opened fire from automatic gun-machines. Musa and his son Said-Selim died from their shooting wounds. Witnesses stated that the perpetrators were four unknown persons, and that after the killing they left with their car towards the village of Serzhen-Yurt. The car used by the attackers was found burned later, close to the city. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 2 October 2003. Three dead bodies, found in the suburbs of Mesker-Yurt village (Shali district), not far from the federal road “Kavkaz,” opposite the sovkhoz (state farm) “Neftianik” and close to sulfuric springs, were transported by a lorry to the village in the evening. The dead bodies were not identified and were lying for several days in the local mosque. According to information from local people, the dead bodies were dropped from a helicopter at the day they were found. And they were found on a very busy place, where they could not lie unnoticed for a long time. On October 6, they were buried at the local cemetery (after photos had been taken). The region of sulphuric springs was famous already before as a place for dropping the dead bodies of persons, who had been killed by Russian soldiers after their detentions. On 10 February of this year exactly at this place the remains of Seda Khurikova were found (with hands and head cut off by an explosion). She had been abducted by Russian soldiers from her home at night on 28 January 2003 to Urus-Martan. One or two weeks before that the blown up bodies of four young people who could not be identified were found at the same place. On June 22, 2003 the dead bodies of two women were found at the same place: Olga Sanaeva, born 1977, and her mother, Nina Zindrina, 55 years old, who had been abducted in the early morning of 22 June in Grozny by armed people in masks. Multiple dead bodies were found and identified at the same place in 2001 and 2002. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 3 October 2003. Two people were killed during day time in the Chechen capital, Grozny. One of the two, a driver who used to carry international journalists, was shot by people in civilian clothes just in the center of Grozny at the Rosa Luxemburg Street. kavkaz.memo.ru 3 October 2003. In the afternoon a young girl was shot to death by Russian soldiers at one of the check-points. Allegedly, soldiers checked her documents and allowed her to go, but then shot her in the back. kavkaz.memo.ru 4 October 2003. There are strict traffic restrictions in the Chechen Republic in force for several days. In Grozny they also extend to pedestrians. Reinforced points of police and soldiers are located at all motor roads and roads to residential areas. Military patrols are in the streets of cities and villages. Check points are also reinforced by armored troops. The locals are indignant. A traffic kick-off toll was raised from 10 to 50 roubles by the soldiers on duty at check-points, who claimed that this measure was a “reinforcement of the security measures.” At the same time, in the locals’ opinion, the Russian soldiers artificially create kilometers of jams to increase the “tribute.” Russian-Chechen Friendship Society Back |
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