August 15, 2001

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Khasukha Shalaudinovich Kantaev, born in 1965, was killed in Grozny as a result of indiscriminate shooting opened by the Russian military for an unknown reason. He was an employee of the Gazprom concern and permanently lived in the village of Chechen-Aul at the address: Sadovaya st., 25.

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On the territory of the central market in Grozny, near the building of the former two-story department store, the corpse of a young girl was found. Her name was Diana, a resident of the city of Urus-Martan, she temporarily lived in the capital of the republic on Delovaya Street.

The victim worked in the cafe "Larisa" right there, in the central market. In the evening, after 7 pm, she left with a young man, whom she introduced to her friends as a cousin. On the morning of the next day, her corpse was found: the girl was strangled. The golden things that were on it remained intact.

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The following persons were delivered to hospital No. 9 in Grozny with mine-explosive wounds (the circumstances of the injuries are unknown):
Isa Abdul-Khasanovich Tovlatov, lived at the address: Gikalovsky settlement, International street. Gunshot wound to the left foot;
Rustam Ruslanovich Bekbulatov. He was injured at home.

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The prosecutor's office of the Kurchaloevsky district opened a criminal case No. 39059 on the fact of the abduction (Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of the residents of the village of Geldagan, brothers Zaurbek (b. 1962), Daurbek (b. 1966) and Gairbek (b. 1972). ) Muzaev. It happened at dawn on May 12, 2001, when the father and son of Hamdi and Umar Gerikhanov were killed in this settlement and four of their close relatives were captured and then severely beaten.

The Muzaev brothers were taken away by military men in masks, who arrived in two armored personnel carriers with hull numbers smeared over. Despite this, the relatives managed to establish that they were taken to the district commandant's office. However, appeals there did not give any result: the military refused to admit that these people were detained by them at all. At the end of 2003 they were still missing. The criminal case was suspended even earlier, on October 15, 2001. The prosecutor's office justified this by the alleged impossibility of "identifying the persons to be brought in as accused" (Article 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR).

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In mid-August 2001, on Pervomaiskaya Street in Grozny, a group of Russian military men stopped three young men, local residents. They were forced to lie down on the ground and started beating them with their feet and rifle butts. At the same time, the military called those beaten "militants". A woman ran up to them. She demanded to stop the arbitrariness. In response, she heard: “Go away, otherwise we will kill you too!” In desperation, the woman declared: “Then you won’t leave here alive either!” Oddly enough, after that the beating stopped. Leaving the young men lying on the ground, the military went to the nearest checkpoint.

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