Grozny, Agishti, Mahkety, Valerik: "sweeps" with kidnappings and murders

June 11, 2001
 
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On the night of June 11, in the village of Katayama, Staropromyslovsky District, Grozny, Russian soldiers who arrived on three armored personnel carriers conducted the so-called address special operation. One of the combat vehicles rammed through the gate and drove into the yard of the house where two women lived (49 Korolenko Street). When they made a noise, the military began to ask with threats whether there was "someone who would make you younger" inside. I received a negative answer, they were forced to enter the premises and left. An armored personnel carrier left after them. After some time, the noise of the gate being broken and people's cries were heard.
As it turned out later, after breaking into the neighboring house, the Russian military captured the nephew of these women, 27-year-old Saikhan Mandiyev (Manziyev). They took him out into the street with his hands tied behind his back, roughly shoved him into the hatch of an armored personnel carrier and took him away in an unknown direction. The detainee is characterized by his neighbors as a peaceful man who has never taken part in hostilities against the Russian army.
On the same night, a 25-year-old mentally ill man was taken from the village. He lived on Entuziastov Street. There are no reliable data on the future fate of these people.


Rustam Khasanov, born in 1979, a resident of the village of Chiry-Yurt, Shalyna district, who was detained by the Russian military during one of the "clean-ups" of this settlement, and then subjected to torture, died. On May 24, he was released and on the same day he was taken to the Shaly hospital in a serious condition. From there, he was transferred by relatives to one of the medical institutions in Vladikavkaz. Doctors never managed to diagnose Rustam Hasanov. On the day of liberation, he himself told his relatives that the military forced him to drink some liquid.
 
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On the outskirts of the village of Agishta in the Shalyna district, masked officers of an unidentified Russian security force stopped a car and shot Albek Tankiyev. The murdered man lived in the village of Elystanzhi, Vedensky district, and, according to local residents, together with fellow villager Shamil Ortsuev, he more than once acted as an intermediary between the military and relatives of kidnapped people, freeing the latter, including for money. At the time of his death, Albek Tankiev was returning from Shaly. His cousin was traveling with him in the car. "Memorial" Center does not know whether this person lived.
 
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Late at night in the village of Makhkety, Vedensky district, Russian soldiers broke into a house and stabbed 50-year-old Sultan and 44-year-old Supyan Daudov. According to residents of the settlement, the attack on these people was not motivated by anything. The military did not explain their actions in any way and did not introduce themselves to those who were in the house, but they forbade taking the victims to the hospital. On the same night, possibly by the same military, a grenade was thrown into Said-Khamzat Ustarkhanov's house. Significant damage was done to his property. Family members were not injured.


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At dawn in the village Valeryk of the Achkhoi-Martanovsky district, the head of the local administration, 57-year-old Lukman Dadalov, was killed. His wife, Zoya Dadalova, who worked as the director of a local high school, was seriously injured. According to the administration of the Achkhoi-Martanovsky district, three armed men in masks broke into the Dadalovs' house and opened fire on the couple indiscriminately. Having made sure that Lukman Dadalov was killed and thought that his wife was also dead, they hid.


From the book "People live here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Hrushkin, 2006.

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