September 4, 2001

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At about 2.45 in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, the Russian military, who arrived in UAZ vehicles, seized Alavdi Musaevich Khamerzaev, born in 1976, who lived at 25 Shkolnaya Street, in their house. The reason for this, as was explained to his wife, Indira, there was a weapon found buried in a wasteland not far from their house. Beating him, he was taken out of the house in sports trousers, barefoot and without a shirt. After that, he disappeared. The kidnappers spoke Russian without an accent.

Subsequently, his relatives applied to various official authorities (the prosecutor's office, the FSB), but they do not have information about the establishment of a search case or the initiation of a criminal case. Although, at their insistence, information about the kidnapping of this person was checked in the prosecutor's office of the Kurchaloevsky district in October of the following, 2002. An application for assistance in the search for the kidnapped was submitted to the Memorial Human Rights Center. However, as of the end of October 2007, the whereabouts of Alavdi Khamerzaev had not been established. He just got married the day before the kidnapping.

More than two months later, on November 10, 2001, his brother, Andi Musaevich Khamerzaev, was also taken away from home. For ten days he was kept in the commandant's office (or in the FSB, then both of these departments were located in the same building) of the Kurchaloy district. Tortured and beaten, he was released at night in a serious condition.

Another member of their family, sister Tamani Musaevna Khamerzaeva, born in 1965, was found dead in March 2001 in a dump of corpses in the holiday village "Health" near the main Russian base in Chechnya - Khankala. At the beginning of the war, she was abducted by the military from a house in one of the microdistricts of Grozny.

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On the night of September 4, in the village of Novye Atagi, several private shops were blown up during "target sweeps". The Russian military robbed two houses, and their owners were detained.

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At 10:00 pm, the village of Akhkinchu-Borzoy was subjected to tank fire from the location of the military unit. At the same time, the roof of the school was pierced, windows were broken. The residential building was severely damaged.

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