May 22, 2001

At about 2 pm, the Russian military, using weapons, committed a robbery attack on the building of the Ministry of Education of the Chechen Republic, located on Pobedy Avenue in Grozny. As a result of the shooting they opened, the following were wounded:
1. Ramzan Gerasiyev, born in 1956, head of one of the departments of the ministry;
2. Khava Makhmudovna Khuchieva, born in 1968, chief specialist of the department of general education.

When leaving the building, the military took out two copiers and three typewriters out of it.

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In the Salty Balka area in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, on a hill next to a geodetic post (“three-legged”), shepherds unearthed the disfigured body of Ruslan Dakaev. A little later, the headless corpse of Shamil Dukvahovich Edilov was found not far from him. At dawn on May 16, they were both taken away by the Russian military from house 21 on Novatorov Street.
According to available information, after being detained, they were taken to the location of the 21st Separate Special Purpose Brigade (21st Brigade) of the RF VV (Sofrinskaya Brigade). A man who, being brutally beaten, was kept in this military unit at the same time as them, claims that Ruslan Dakaev and Shamil Edilov were first subjected to inhuman torture, and then killed by driving sharpened wooden stakes into their hearts with a hammer. (The name of the witness has not been released for his safety.)
According to the story of the shepherds, the corpses were brought to the hill by an armored personnel carrier that had left the territory where the Sofrino brigade was stationed. The soldiers, after burying the corpses, left in the same direction.

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At about 22.30 in Grozny, a resident of the village of Kalinin (lived there at the address: 1st per. Darvina, 9), the father of two children Said-Ali (Said-Sali) Salmanovich Dzhamalkhanov, born in 1954, was detained.
After watching a television news release, he was returning from a neighbor's house when the Russian military approached him at the gate of the house. Without listening to the explanations and not being interested in the documents, he was taken aside. Later it became known that he was taken to the destroyed building of the maintenance center, to the so-called. VAZ, and further - in the direction of the motor transport enterprise No. 1 (PAP-1). This gave his relatives reason to believe that servicemen of the 22nd Special Purpose Brigade (22nd OBRON) of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who were stationed there, were involved in his abduction.

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