During the wars, the Russian military committed violence against civilians in Chechnya

May 11, 2001

On the night of May 11, Magomed-Salah Aslambekovich Abubakarov, born in 1977, a resident of the village, was killed. New Atagi, Shalinsky district. The young man was performing ablution before the night prayer, when the Russian military entered the courtyard of the house on Gornaya Street, where he lived. According to some reports, he jumped up and ran, after which shots were fired in his direction, according to others, he remained in place. Without warning or any demand, automatic bursts were fired at him. The corpse of Magomed-Salakh Abubakarov was taken to the village commandant's office. Over the next three days, the military extorted two machine guns and a machine gun from his relatives in exchange for his extradition. On May 14, having made sure that no one was going to buy weapons, they gave the body to the village elders for burial.
The victim is the brother of Andarbek Aslambekovich Abubakarov, born in 1975, who two weeks before the described events was seized by Russian security forces in the building of a local boarding school. Together with four other people, he was taken away from the village in an unknown direction and went missing.

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In the 3rd microdistrict of Grozny, local residents found the bodies of two unknown men. Both died, possibly during one of the shellings that regularly hit the residential sectors of the Chechen capital. This version is also supported by the fact that their bodies had multiple shrapnel wounds.

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At about 20:00 Alkhazur Lechievich Khamzatov, born in 1969, who lived in the house number 27 on the street. Liberty village Podgorny in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, even before the onset of the "curfew" went to his sister on a neighboring street. The next day, at about 4 p.m., his body was found behind the railway track on the outskirts of the village, in an area with roadblocks on both sides. There were traces of bullet wounds on the body and head of the victim. His hands and fingers of both hands, his jaw were broken. Knife wounds were found on the back and stomach of Alkhazur Khamzatov. His funeral took place in the village. Podgorny on the afternoon of May 13.

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

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