Road blocking during a “cleansing operation” in the village of Mayrtup: tolls were collected even from pregnant and sick people

September 8, 2001
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The Russian military, carrying out a “cleansing operation” in the village of Mayrtup, did not allow the car in which there was a pregnant woman to pass. She, with serious complications that threatened the death of herself and her unborn child, was taken from the village of Bachi-Yurt to a hospital in the regional center of Kurchaloy. The driver was forced to turn around and go to Khasavyurt (Dagestan), which is 40 km further. At the same time, at all checkpoints we had to pay money so that the car would not be detained. Both mother and child were saved thanks to the professionalism of doctors from the Republic of Dagestan.


From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006

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