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English Language Page October 5, 2003. In the settlement of Goity of the Urus-Martan district special task police fighters detained Roman Tausovich Khaidukayev, born 1984, residing on Pushkin Street. He was arrested in his house at approximately 2 p.m. Representatives of law-enforcement structures broke into the Khaidukayevs’ house and without any explanations pushed Roman outside and took him away with them. According to Khaidukayevs’ fellow settlers the police officers (numbering approximately 10, wearing masks, and armed with automatic weapons) had arrived in an UAZ-452 vehicle. Relatives of the detainee almost immediately followed the police vehicle in which Roman had been taken away. It was determined that the vehicle had headed towards Grozny. One did not manage however to establish the exact location of the detainee on the first day. Roman Tausovich Khaidukayev was released on October 6, 2003. According to his relatives he was kept for 24 hours at the base of A. Kadyrov’s personal security service in the vicinity of the old airport of the city of Grozny. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 7, 2003. Since early morning, Russian military troopers were checking documents and luggage of everyone who was passing through the mobile check-point at the Tevzan settlement of the Vedeno district, including women. At noon the neighboring settlement of Makhkety was blocked by troopers of the 45th special designation landing regiment dislocated near the Khatun settlement. The settlement was unblocked only when the night fell. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 7, 2003. Aina Deniyeva residing in the Krasnopartizansky settlement (on the western outskirt of the Alkhan-Yurt settlement) of the Urus-Martan district petitioned to the Urus-Martan representative office of the “Memorial” Human Rights Center. She complained that on March 16, 2000 her son, Uvais Khusseinovich Deniyev, born 1975, who resided together with her, was arrested by representatives of the federal forces and then disappeared. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 7 October 2003. At 9.40 a.m. Ibragim Zelimkhanovich Zairkhanov, 24 year of age, was abducted by the enforcement structures of the Russian Federation. The group of about fifteen armed persons in military uniform arrived by two UAZ vehicles and a ninth model “Zhiguli” (all vehicles had no identification signs). Threatening with the guns, they pushed Zairkhanov into one of the cars at Sheripov Street which is the central street of the village and drove off in an unknown direction. The abduction was witnessed by a number of people gathered at the water tower of the village. The relatives of the kidnapped addressed the police department of the Shali district and the district office of the military commandant. However, they were answered that the respective power structures had not arrested Zairkhanov and they were not notified about the incident. The latter fact was questioned by the inhabitants of the village. The matter is that both entries to Serzhen-Yurt are being controlled by check-points patrolled by the staff of the commandant’s office and policemen on duty. There are no other exit- ways out of the village — Serzhen-Yurt stretches along the mouth of the Vedeno gorge and is bordered by steep woody mountains from one side and by the Khulkhulau river from the other side. Therefore, the motorcade of abductors could not but pass through one of the check-points of the federal forces. According to the statements of his co-villagers and elders, Zairkhanov did not participate in armed resistance to the Russian troops. House-to-house searches had been reportedly conducted that very day, apparently by the same group of policemen. Federal servicemen visited the houses of the Sadayevs and the Basuyevs located in Dagestanskaya Street, but the men were not at home. Then, the people from the power structures broke into the Suleymanovs’ house, which was also empty at that moment. The militants broke the entrance door and some windows. The neighbors tried to find out the reasons of such actions, and received threats and recommendatiopns not to interfere as replies. On their way out of the village, the policemen carried out an arbitrary arrest of another villager. Imran Ezheev, the Chair of the North Caucasus Office of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, who is currently in Moscow, commented on the events in Serzhen-Yurt. He reported that Ibragim Zairkhanov was virtually a volunteer of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. This is already the second case of abduction of collaborators of this organization: on April 2 Arthur Akhtamanov had been abducted. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society October 8, 2003. In the morning, the Makhkety settlement of the Vedeno district was blocked by a large amount of military machinery, including tanks. At noon artillery shelling began in the outskirts of the settlement. The shelling was conducted from the territory of the 45th special designation landing regiment based near the Khatun settlement. At 2 p.m. the machinery was pulled out of the settlement back to the military base. On the night of October 8 in the Bugaroy settlement of the Itum-Kalinsky district the chairman of the council of settlement’s patriarchs, Khumid Visaitov, aged 82, was murdered in his own house. Khumid Visaitov had been temporarily staying with his family in the settlement of Prigorodnoye. Lately, he had been busy fixing his house in the Ushkaloi settlement where he had intended to go back to. In the evening he arrived in the settlement once again and stayed for the night in his own house. Apparently being well aware of that, the perpetrators made their way into his courtyard and killed Visaitov by shooting through the window of the room in which he was sleeping. His neighbors found out about what had happened in Visaitov’s house only in the morning when they came to see him. Visaitov’s murderers had left a note on the site in which they threatened to kill all active supporters of the current regime. In 1995 Khumid’s brother, Arbi Vitargov, and his wife were killed in a shelling conducted from a helicopter. His son, Khavazh Khumidovich Visaitov, aged 25, disappeared in 2000. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 9, 2003. In the afternoon in the settlement of Yandar, Republic of Ingushetia, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia attempted to apprehend a group of unidentified armed individuals. The strangers resisted using weapons. In the course of the shooting one of them was killed, the other three were arrested. The prosecution authority of the Nazran district initiated criminal proceedings on this fact and an investigation is currently underway. It turned out that the man killed in the shooting was Zelimkhan Saayev from Grozny. According to operatives he had been the organizer of the explosion in Tushino on July 5 and the terrorist attack on the Tverskaya Street in Moscow on July 9. Additionally, identity of one of the detainees was established. He turned out to be a Grozny resident, Khasan Suleimanov, who was also participial to the terrorist attacks in Tushino and on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. This information was relayed by the “Interfax” agency with reference to a source within the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. According to that source, in the course of the operation the members of the group were relieved of a homemade explosion device, approximately 1.5 kilograms of plastic explosive, two Kalashnikov machine guns, an automatic pistol with ammunition, an antitank hand grenade, camouflage uniforms, and approximately $6,000 in cash. In the Goi-Chu settlement of the Urus-Martan district, presumably in the course of a clash between insurgents and federal military troopers, Musa Magomedovich Dudushev, born 1983, was killed. Around noon a large number of representatives of Russian law-enforcement structures (according to local residents — several hundred) arrived at the western outskirt of the Goi-Chu settlement of the Urus-Martan district. They arrived in two or three armored troop-carriers, a “KAVZ” bus, and “Ural” and UAZ-452 vehicles, and assumed a position in the woods between the Goi-Chu and Martan-Chu settlements within proximity of the road. At around 3 p.m. on the spot where the troopers were an erratic shooting began. According to Goi-Chu residents the shooting resembled a skirmish and stopped in about 10 minutes. At 6 p.m. another shooting began on the same spot which went on for about three or four minutes. Some time later it became known that relatives were unable to find Musa Dudushev. Approximately at 4 p.m. he had been at home stocking up hay with a neighbor but then he left, having not said anything to anyone. When the twilight fell the troopers took off and left. On the morning of October 10 Dudushev’s relatives resumed their search for him, but with no successful results. On October 11 high school students from the Goi-Chu settlement found a piece of paper in which it was written in capital letters, “Musa Dudushev died in the shooting. His body is lying under a wild pear-tree 300–400 meters away from the settlement into the woods. Please, let Musa’s family know.” Dudushev’s relatives were immediately informed of the note. Having arrived at the site referred to in the note, they found a body lying under a wild pear-tree. Next to the body there were sausage chunks, “Snickers” wraps, military “discharge,” a kit-bag, etc. The body lacked a piece of the skull and bore a multitude of gunshot wounds. The man had camouflage trousers and a military cap on. On the same day an operative brigade from the Urus-Martan police headed by its chief arrived to the site and undertook an investigation. After that the body was buried at the Goi-Chu cemetery. The following information was distributed by the official press service: “Law-enforcement authorities established that in the course of a combat with federal forces an active participant of illegal armed formations of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dudushev, born 1983, was killed. His body was found in the woods between residential areas of Komsomolskoye and Tangi-Chu of the Urus-Martan district in the course of an inspection of the combat site. During the inspection of the site where the body was found there were also found food stuffs, medications, and a grenade fuse. The incident is being investigated by the prosecution authorities.” “Memorial” Human Rights Center 9 October 2003. Aslan Vesedov, a resident of Serzhen-Yurt village of the Shali district was been arbitrary arrested at his own home on October 9 by the soldiers of pro-Moscow Chechen special unit shortly after the Russian APC being undermined in the village. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 9 October 2003. At about midday, the fighters of the Chechen resistance groups attacked a Russian motorized column on the southern outskirts of the village. A short column headed for Vedeno through Serzhen-Yurt consisting of an APC, a truck “Ural” and three military vehicles UAZ 452 (so-called “tablets”). As soon as it reached the northern edge of the village, there was a powerful explosion, which damaged the APC. The shooting lasted for about 50 minutes. During that time, Russian servicement received considerable reinforcement from Shali — about ten military units. During the fight, inhabitants of the southern part of the village were hiding in the houses and basements. There were no reports on casualties among civilians. According to the inhabitants of Avtury, Shali, Serzhen-Yurt, Bachi-Yurt as well as of some villages of Kurchaloi district, Russian military and police structures became more active after the October 5 elections. Arrests take place nearly every day, including nighttime. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society October 10, 2003. Approximately at 3 a.m. representatives of Russian law-enforcement structures forcefully detained and took in an unknown direction Adam Alkhazurovich Dadayev, born 1980, a resident of the Alkhazurovo settlement of the Urus-Martan district, who had lived on the Rechnaya Street. During Adam’s detention his younger brother was beaten up. In response to all petitions of Dadayev’s relatives inquiring after his fate and whereabouts the procuracy, the administration, and the law-enforcement authorities of the Urus-Martan district stated that they knew nothing either of the detention or of the fate of the detainee. A massive shelling in the area of the Bamut settlement and the woods adjacent to the Stary-Achkhoi settlement went on from 0:20 till 6:50 a.m. Bomb explosions shook window glasses in all of the neighboring settlements: Àchkhoi-Ìàrtan, Stary-Achkhoi, Yandy, Sernovodsk and Àssinovskaya. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 11, 2003. At dawn representatives of Russian law-enforcement structures detained a resident of the Gekhi settlement of the Urus-Martan district, Zaina Gaitamirova, 32 years old, who had resided at Budennogo, 54. She was taken to the Urus-Martan police department. Twenty four hours later she was passed over to the head of administration of the Gekhi settlement and she was able to return home. The motives underlying her arrest are still unknown. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 11 October 2003. In the district center of Kurchaloi, there was a clash between the local policemen and the fighters of a special unit under command of the Yamadaev brothers. According to the local residents, the fight between policemen and Yamadaevs’ people lasted for about 40 minutes and resulted in some losses on both sides. The reason for the fight remains unknown. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society 11 October 2003. A military lorry of the type “Ural,” moving in a Russian motorized column on the highway of the Staropromislovsky district of Grozny, was exploded by unknown people. The vehicle was damaged. There were killed and wounded persons among policemen. Urgent investigation procedures by at the site of explosure yielded no results. The injured persons were brought to a military hospital in Khankala. An UAZ vehicle was blown up by an unidentified explosive device placed on a roadside not far from “Severny” market in Grozny on the same day. Two servicemen died and one received wounds as a result of the blast. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society October 12, 2003. Troopers of the sapper-engineering brigade were shot at from a desolate apartment block located in the “Beryozka” quarter of the Staropromyslovsky district of the city of Grozny at the Staropromyslovskoye highway. The shooting occurred when the sappers were moving down the road. None of the troopers was injured. On the next day the above area was inspected by military troopers and police officers of the Staropromyslovsky district. Most of the ruinous buildings and desolate apartments were subjected to inspection. Closed doors were knocked out. “Memorial” Human Rights Center 12 October 2003. In the morning a body of a dead unidentified man was discovered at a crossway of the roads leading to the Sernovodsk village and to the Baku-Rostov highway. According to the residents of Sernovodsk that were heading for the town of Sleptsovsk, people had to call a sapper group fearing that the body was mined. Russian-Chechen Friendship Society October 13, 2003. At 9 a.m. in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny there was killed a representative of the operative investigation bureau (ORB), Dzhalaudi Mezhiyev, 50 years of age. He was assaulted not far away from his house when he was going to work in his “Volga” car. Unidentified individuals wearing masks and camouflage uniforms attacked him from behind the shrubbery and the remains of the school #11. D. Mezhiyev died of the inflicted wounds. Dzhalaudi had been a highly respected member of the local community. Head of the Sernovodsk settlement, Vakha Khalidovich Arsamakov, was shot at from automatic weapons as he was leaving his house at about 4.25 p.m. V. Arsamakov had left house #1 on the Rechnoy Lane, boarded his official vehicle (white VAZ -2105 with shaded windows and no license plates) and headed for his office. As the vehicle approached the bridge across the Sunzha river (next to Dadayevs’ and Shengiriyevs’ houses — three houses down from Arsamakov’s home) three unidentified individuals opened fire from automatic weapons at Arsamakov’s car from behind a large tree. As a result of the shooting V. Arsamakov was wounded in both feet, a hip. Also, one bullet hit his spinal cord. After the shooting the assaulters disappeared. Passers-by called an ambulance which took the wounded to the central district hospital in the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village. The Sunzha police started an investigation. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 14, 2003. Resident of the Alkhan-Yurt settlement of the Urus-Martan district, Aslan Salaudinovich Akayev, born 1984, resided on Kagermanova Street, was kidnapped presumably by representatives of the Russian enforcement structures some time between 3 and 4 a.m. À. Àkayev was sitting with his peers not far from the settlement’s mosque. A VAZ-2107 vehicle drove up and several armed men wearing camouflage uniforms and masks came out of it. Without introductions or explanations they forced Aslan into the vehicle and drove him away. Local residents are of the opinion that he was taken in the direction of Grozny. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 15, 2003. A special operation targeting several households was undertaken in the Roshni-Chu settlement of the Urus-Martan district. At dawn the settlement was surrounded by military machines and the roads leading up to it were blocked. Local residents who were on their way to the district center were not allowed past the check-point that had been set up in the outskirts of the settlement. In the course of the special operation the troopers searched the houses of Said-Selim Akuyev, Shakhid Eniyev, Segirat Bersinkayev, Rukman Tatayev, and Bislan Ibragimov on the Ordzhonikidze Street. In addition, unauthorized searches were conducted in the houses of Khamzat Ibragimov and Baizan Dadashev on the Lenin Street and that of Dara Mudarov on the Nuradilov Street. The troopers specifically focused on searching in gardens and supplementary household buildings. Abat Adamovich Amagov, born 1959, residing on Rechnaya Street, was detained but released shortly afterwards. The reason underlying his detention remains unknown. According to local residents they were allowed to freely move within the settlement limits and the troopers treated them politely. The troopers did not explain however who they were and why they were conducting the searches. By approximately 10–11 a.m. the mop-up operation was over and the roads were unblocked. Adlan Musayevich Israilov, born 1981, was beaten and kidnapped in the settlement of Chernorechye of the city of Grozny by three unidentified individuals (all in masks, one clad in a military uniform, the others wearing civilian clothes) who had driven up to him in a white VAZ-2107 vehicle with shaded windows. At around 3 p.m. À. Israilov and his friend were passing by the temporary placement center located on Vyborgskaya, 4. At this point a VAZ-2107 drove up to them. A man wearing civilian clothes and a mask came out of it. He was armed with an AKSU machine gun. Pointing the gun at Israilov he spoke in Chechen and ordered not to move. But the young men were frightened and they broke into a run. The stranger shot in the air. Adlan halted. Then the stranger approached him and hit him with the butt of his gun which made him fall down. A second man wearing a camouflage uniform and a mask came out of the car and joined in the beating. The beating made A. Israilov lose his consciousness. The incident was eye witnessed by a large number of people — forced migrants staying at the temporary placement center. According to Adlan Israilov two masks were put on him in the car. First, they took him somewhere to the woods and started to beat him. Then, they brought him to a basement which, he thought, resembled a bomb shelter. Adlan spent two days there. During the first day he was beaten up. On the second day his mask was removed, he was fed and interrogated. A man wearing a mask spoke to him in Chechen. He said that Adlan Israilov could be sent to prison and stay there until he was very old; therefore he was to give up his machine gun. Adlan responded that he did not have any weapons and had nothing to be afraid of. At the end of the second day they put a mask on him again, took him out of the basement, put him in a car and brought him to Chernorechye. Adlan was set free not far away from where he had been kidnapped. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 16, 2003. Masked representatives of enforcement structures ran an ID-check operation at the central market of Grozny. The troopers did not introduce themselves but the market merchants assumed that those were representatives of the Zavodsky district police and of the Chechen special task police force. They mostly demanded identification documents from young men and male teenagers. Upon the whole, the operation went on without incidents, although initially the appearance of troopers in masks caused a certain panic. Detention data are not available. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 17, 2003. Sharani, brother of Movlady Baisarov, head of A. Kadyrov’s personal security, was blown up in his vehicle together with his four associates in the Pobedinskoye settlement of the Groznoselsky district. According to witnesses Sharani and his people were in the middle of their Friday prayer at the settlement’s mosque. Having exited the mosque and boarded the vehicle they only managed to drive away several dozens of meters when the car exploded. It has been confirmed that Sharani died in the explosion. Nothing is known about the condition of his associates. Adam Alkhazurovich Dadayev, born 1980, resided in a house with no number on the Rechnaya Street in the Alkhazurovo settlement of the Urus-Martan district, was dumped in the north-western outskirt of the Goiskoye settlement. He had been detained by representatives of the Russian enforcement structures on October 10, 2003. According to his fellow settlers, Adam was severely beaten following the detention, several of his front teeth were knocked out. In addition he was very drunk. Apparently he had been forced to drink. It is not known however where he had been kept at and what he had been accused of if anything. Neither he nor his relatives provide any comments on the incident. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 18, 2003. Isa Imranovich Aliyev, born 1979, resident of the Tovarny Lane in the Katayama settlement of the Staropromyslovsky district, was killed in the course of a special operation at around 6 a.m. According to head of the criminal police of the Staropromyslovsky district Ruslan Gelayev, his fellow officers had been watching I. Aliyev for a long time and planned on arresting him. They had nothing to do, however, with the special operation in question. Aliyev putn up armed resistance to the arrest and wounded a representative of the operative investigation bureau who later died in a hospital. October 18, 2003. A mop-up operation took place in the Alkhazurovo settlement of the Urus-Martan district. Since early morning the roads leading up to the settlement had been blocked by temporary check-points set up by representatives of law-enforcement structures who inspected the vehicles and let them proceed only after a thorough inspection and documents check. The operation was a targeted one and included participation of representatives of the Urus-Martan district military authority, the Urus-Martan police, and the troopers from the military unit located in the eastern outskirt of Urus-Martan (a battalion of internal forces of the RF Ministry of Internal Affairs). The troopers wore no masks and coordinated all their actions with the settlement administration. However, the special operation was not observed by any representatives of the district prosecution authority, at least neither the local administration nor the residents were aware of that. According to head of the settlement administration, the troopers treated local residents politely. However, they conducted unauthorized searches in some residents’ houses. Said-Emin Dudayev, resident of Partizanskaya Street, was detained in the course of the mop-up operation. According to head of the Alkhazurovo administration when doing a search in Said-Emin’s house the troopers detected a pair of camouflage trousers whose pockets were filled with ammunition. The detainee was taken to the Urus-Martan police. Closer to the evening due to interference of the head of Alkhazurovo settlement administration, Dudayev was released and could go back home. The mop-up operation was over by noon. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 19, 2003. A military column consisting of armored and UAZ vehicles entered the Zumsoy settlement of the Itum-Kalinsky district in the evening. Representatives of the Russian law-enforcement structures, law-enforcement structures of the Chechen Republic, and federal military troopers accommodated themselves in the settlement’s school. On the same day information passed through the settlement indicating that this group had apprehended two young men ( Alik Bachiyev aged 28 and Shirvani aged 30) in the Bugaroy settlement (located five kilometers away from the Zumsoy village). When arresting Shirvani the troopers severely beat up his aunt. A. Bachiyev was detained when he was unloading hay in his courtyard. The military troopers brought with them Mikhail Musikhov, aged 16, and Lema, aged 18. Together with Lema’s mother they were traveling from the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village of the Republic of Ingushetia where they had lived in the capacity of forced migrants to the Zumsoy settlement. They were apprehended at a temporary check-point when entering the Zumsoy settlement by representatives of the Shatoi FSB department. Local police officers managed to liberate Lema’s mother but later she was detained again and kept at the Shatoi district police. She was released two days later. During this special operation Mikhail and Lema were taken all over the settlement. They were released on October 20. The reasons underlying their detention remain unknown. On the next day troopers and representatives of law-enforcement structures drove up to the house of Vakhid Makhambetovich Mukhayev. Practically all of them except two RF law-enforcement officers were wearing masks. Without introductions the officers broke into the house and inquired, “Who is Vakhid?” V. Mukhayev identified himself. The troopers started to beat him up — they kicked him with their feet and hit him with butts of their machine guns. Attempts of other family members to put an end to the outrage turned back against them as the beating extended on them: swearing, one of the troopers kicked with his foot Alpata Mukhayeva, 82 years old, Vakhid’s mother, and knocked her down on the floor. Zara Akhmatkhanova, his wife, was beaten up with butts of machine guns so severely that she had to seek medical assistance at the local hospital. One of the troopers grabbed Vakhid’s 13-year old daughter, Khazan, by her throat and started to strangle her. Now and then, the troopers would fire their machine guns in the house. As a result, a four-year old boy present in the house was frightened to such an extent that he had foam coming out of his mouth. Then the troopers pulled Vakhid outside and threw him on the ground. When he was lying on the ground they were shooting at him as well as in his direction while videotaping it all. As a result of the shooting Vakhid was wounded. Together with V. Mukhayev detained were Shadid Aldamov, aged 28, and Beslan Azieyv, aged 27, who in response to the shooting ran out of the neighboring house of settlement’s imam, Mukhadi Hadjiyev, where they were staying as guests. All detainees were taken to the local school — troopers’ temporary location. In the afternoon detainees’ relatives met with Artur Khachaturov, prosecutor of the Itum-Kalinsky, Sharoi, and Shatoi districts. He advised them that the detainees were being kept in the school building and that there was no need to worry as nobody was going to go missing. The prosecutor did not answer however what the detainees were accused of and why the detention had been conducted in violation of the Russian legislation. Eltsat Makhabetovna Mukhayeva, sister of V. Mukhayev, pointed out that Vakhid was wounded when being arrested but A. Khachaturov negated the fact saying, “This had probably happened when he attempted to run.” At the end of the interview the prosecutor assured detainees’ relatives that they would be released in the evening, after the check. Nobody returned however. A military doctor who attended the interview unofficially informed Malika Khamzatova, Vakhid’s daughter-in-law, that the former had been taken to a hospital due to a gunshot wound that he had. He did not specify which hospital, though. On October 21 the troopers abandoned the settlement together with detainees. It was not until the next day that a representative of the Shatoi settlement prosecution authority announced that those who had been detained in the settlements of Zumsoy and Bugaroy were being kept at the FSB department facility of the Shatoi district. He did not specify what they were being accused of. As of the beginning of November nothing was known of the fate of the detainees. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 21, 2003. At around 7 a.m., on the outskirts of the Sernovodsk settlement, local residents spotted two unfamiliar young men who were busy planting a minefield on the road leading to the Rostov-Baku highway in the direction of the Assinovskaya village. Residents of the Naberezhnaya Street demanded that they should stop. The young men disappeared in the direction of the tractor brigade of the state farm named after Chilayev. Witnesses of the sabotage reported it to the police but none of the police officers ever set out to inspect the site in question. Two hours later a column of automotive vehicles and armored troop-carriers of federal forces passed down that road. At around 5 p.m. representatives of the Russian enforcement structures in masks broke into the Elmurzayevs’ house located on the Nagornaya Street of the Starye Atagy settlement of the Groznoselsky district. The troopers had arrived in two armored troop-carriers and an “Ural” truck. Having opened fire from machine guns and broken the gate with assistance of one of the armored vehicles the troopers broke into the house yelling “Where are the weapons?” the troopers severely beat up Movla Elmurzayev, born 1980, and then opened fire just above the bed of the elderly head of the Elmurzayevs family who was lying in it after his leg had been amputated. The troopers broke all the furniture and totally destroyed bed linens. When leaving they shot at the house from their machine guns and artillery weapons installed on the armored vehicle which resulted in significant damage caused to the house. When the troopers were gone Elmurzayev junior in a serious condition was brought to the settlement hospital. Settlers together with the head of the settlement administration petitioned to the commandant’s office located on the outskirts of the settlement. But the military headquarters denies its having anything to do with this crime. “Memorial” Human Rights Center October 22, 2003. According to preliminary data, in the Leninsky district of Grozny, near the former “Rossia” cinema, unidentified individuals armed with machine guns murdered an unidentified young man. The news about the murder immediately reached the central market (because people from different settlements get together there). There was a word that the murdered man had been a resident of the Vedeno settlement. Having found out about it, some Vedeno residents went to the murder site. It is not known however if the dead man has been identified. Unidentified individuals wearing black uniforms and masks who had arrived in UAZ and UAZ-452 vehicles kidnapped Ruslan Baitayevich Saipuyev, born 1983. According to Khadizhat Saipuyeva, Ruslan’s mother, on that day he had arrived from the Ali-Yurt settlement in the Republic of Ingushetia where his family has been residing since the beginning of military operations and where his cousin brother, Said-Emin Dudurkayev, had been staying in a hospital. R. Saipuyev went to the hospital to see his cousin whereat he was kidnapped and taken away by strangers. October 22, 2003. At around 7 p.m. in the settlement of Pobedinskoe of the Groznoselsky district representatives of a Russian enforcement structure detained and took away in an unknown direction brothers Said-Rakhman, born 1979, and Said-Khasan, born 1977, Dudurkayevs. The reasons behind the detention are not known. According to brothers’ mother the strangers (7–10 people) were wearing masks and camouflage uniforms and had arrived in a grey UAZ-452 vehicle. Said-Rakhman said that having heard the noise in the courtyard he stepped outside and saw the military troopers and his brother who was lying on the ground. Said-Khasan yelled to his brother, “Run and get some help from Kadyrov’s people!” (a subdivision of Kadyrov’s security service is stationed in this settlement). Having heard that, the strangers seized the Dudurkayev brothers, pulled their clothes over their heads, shoved them into the UAZ vehicle, and took them away in an unknown direction. Their mother was never offered any explanation. According to Said-Rakhman they were on the road for about 10 minutes. When in the vehicle nobody touched them or asked them any questions. Although the troopers did say over the radio, “Everything is OK, we have two “boxes,” one large and one small.” Presumably the UAZ stopped in the vicinity of the 36th quarter of the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. It was there that Said-Khasan was transferred to a different vehicle (his brother insists that judging by the noise produced by the engine it was a VAZ-21099) and driven away. Some time later the car containing Said-Rakhman also started to move. Having moved for a while the vehicle stopped again and the kidnappers ordered Dudurkayev to disembark and return back home. He asked what they had been detained for. One of the troopers said, “We had received information that you were fundamentalists.” When Said-Rakhman was released his documents were returned to him but the troopers retained his wrist-watch and cash. On October 28, 2003 Dudurkayev’s mother petitioned to the prosecution authority of the Chechen Republic. As of late October, 2003 no information about Said-Khasan Dudurkayev had been received. After the androlepsy, settlers came out and blocked the road from Grozny to Goragorsk but this action did not yield any results. Local residents intend to picket the House of the Government of Chechnya. “Memorial” Human Rights Center Back |
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