August 22, 2001

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On the night of August 22, a group of unknown men in camouflage broke into the village of Tsentoroi and killed A.M. Saidukaev.

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In the village of Alkhan-Yurt, Ismail Avluevich Khazuev was buried by relatives. He had been taken two or three days earlier from his home in Grozny by people in camouflage uniforms and masks who had arrived in a white VAZ-2106 car. The exact circumstances of his death and the location of the discovery of the body are unknown.

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At 17.30, 400 meters from the Terek River, servicemen (military unit 42839) fired at a KAMAZ vehicle from an armored personnel carrier. As a result, seven-year-old A. Dzhavatkhanov and Said Dzhavatkhanov, born in 1956, died, and Aindi Shamilovich Dzhavatkhanov (a through wound to the left shoulder), Zaindi Ibragimov (the jaw was crushed) were injured. The criminals were detained, they turned out to be Senior Lieutenant A.A. Satarov and Private Spetsov.

Says Zaindi Ibragimov: “... Satarov, a senior lieutenant, belonged to the Kalinovskaya commandant's office. They, it turns out, accompanied the columns. He escorted the column to Chervlennaya-Uzlovaya and returned from there. I bought myself a drink at the market, went and shot anywhere. When he was interrogated by prosecutor Badmaev, he said that he did not like the color of KAMAZ. On the second day, they came from the military prosecutor's office and took them (Satarov and Spetsova. – HRC “Memorial”) to Khankala. They say it's none of your business, it's ours. The military prosecutor's office will investigate. Mokritsky demanded that I stop the case, threatened me. He even sent the military home to me at night. But I didn't agree to their terms. Through our fellow villager, who works in the prosecutor's office in Rostov, they offered me 100,000 rubles. Like, your house is unfinished, come on, take the money, write a resignation letter. I did not agree to this, I thought there would be some kind of justice, it turned out - not in my favor ... They either endured it, or they thought up something else. I went to Rostov four or five times. It was at the end of 2002. They imprisoned this innocent Spetsov (he was a machine gunner, as it turned out); they didn’t put him in jail - they just sentenced him to three years in a military settlement.

Spetsov was given a command: three short bursts through the forest. And the third - he gave the car. Spetsov spoke about this in court. Satarov was the first to shoot at me from a machine gun. I collected shell casings from that place, but then it turned out that they were not from that machine gun, they had already removed the material evidence.

I also have photos of the machine gun, I have all the documents. However, Satarov generally got out of responsibility, received the rank of captain. He is still in the Shatoi district, in Borzoi, in my opinion, he is finishing his service. I appealed this verdict, sent a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court in Moscow, and from there they sent me an answer that the verdict was upheld. My investigator was Saluev, an Ossetian. He called me on the agenda and demanded that I write a waiver statement. They called me with the criminal (that is, with Satarov. – HRC “Memorial”) for a confrontation, and he said: “Take the money, let me go. Tell me it's not my fault." And after that they left me with nothing. I don't trust myself anymore."

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