September 2, 2001

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On the night of September 2, Yermolovskaya Street was subjected to intensive shelling in Grozny. As a result, four out of six apartments in building 7 were completely burned down. The firefighters and the district police officer, who arrived on the second day, recorded only the fact of the fire, but did not indicate its cause in the document that the residents were acquainted with. The policeman said that a criminal case had been initiated, but the victims doubted this, since no one interrogated them, did not offer to write a statement describing the damage caused to them.

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On the night of September 2, house 16 on Tukhachevsky Street in the Leninsky district of Grozny was attacked by people in camouflage uniforms. Threatening with weapons, they demanded money and gold from the residents. The criminals forced to open the doors, calling themselves "patrolmen". In the indicated house, they robbed two apartments, a few more were "cleaned" in the house that is located in the neighborhood. After that, five families decided to leave Chechnya.

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On the night of September 2, during the "targeted cleansing" of the village of Novye Atagi, the Russian military detained two teenagers. Memorial Human Rights Center has no information about their further fate, what happened to them, and whether they were released.

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On the night of September 2, in the city of Urus-Martan, Russian military abducted Muslim Akhmadov, born in 1982, who lived at 59 Gvardeiskaya St. them a person. As a result, nothing was known about his fate for several days. According to the heads of law enforcement agencies of the district, they did not give the order to detain the young man and do not know who could have done it. Muslim Akhmadov disappeared.

On September 8, it became known that residents of the village of Alkhan-Yurt, near the Kavkaz highway, a few hundred meters from the Grozny stele, found the corpse of an unknown person with signs of violent death. With observance of Muslim rites, he was interred in the local cemetery. Arriving in Alkhan-Yurt and examining the clothes taken from the corpse before burial, the relatives established that it belonged to Muslim Akhmadov.

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At 8.30 in the city of Urus-Martan, Russian military men in masks, who arrived in a Ural truck and white UAZ and VAZ-2107 cars, blocked the house located on Chekhov Street. Apart from Ilyas Khamzatovich Musitaev, born in 1975, there was no one in it, since the parents, with whom he lived, left for the market in the morning. He was detained and right in the yard they began to beat him. Neighbors tried to intervene. However, the military did not go into explaining the motives for their actions, they only said that tomorrow they would return the young man home. Parents became aware of what happened to Ilyas Musitaev. They immediately contacted the law enforcement agencies of the area. Without denying the fact of their son's detention, the "siloviki" confirmed that they would release him the next day.

On the morning of September 3, at a garbage dump located on the road to the village of Goiskoye, local residents found the corpse of an unknown person. They claimed that the military dropped him there. The discovery was immediately reported to the district prosecutor's office. The body was taken to Urus-Martan and placed on a trailer in the courtyard of the VOVD. Relatives of people detained at various times by members of the Russian law enforcement agencies were allowed in to identify him. The victim was soon identified. It turned out to be Ilyas Musitaev, who had been taken away from his home the day before. Numerous stab wounds were found on his body, but death appears to have been caused by a shot fired into the left side of the chest. On the fact of his murder, the relatives did not apply to the authorities and law enforcement agencies, considering it unsafe for themselves.

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