May 14, 2001 in Tsa-Vedeno, Vedeno district, Russian soldiers shot and killed a young local resident. His funeral was witnessed by employees of the Danish Refugee Council, who were distributing humanitarian aid in this locality.

Nothing is known about the circumstances of the incident, but the HRC "Memorial" managed to find out that it was on this day in Tsa-Vedeno that the cousins Sultan and Maiso Inderbaevs, born in 1944 and 1964, were abducted and disappeared without a trace. respectively. According to relatives, the Russian military rushed to them at dawn. After waking up the sleeping people, they ordered them to show their documents, forced them to get dressed and took them outside.

The abductors did not introduce themselves, did not say anything about the reasons for their actions and where they would take the detainees. It was possible to find out who they were and where they came from only in the afternoon, after the relatives turned to the Russian commandant's office, located in the regional center of Vedeno. The officer who came out to meet them said that the operation was carried out by servicemen of the 15th regiment, which is stationed in the city of Shali.

Nevertheless, the search for the kidnapped brothers did not yield any results. Relatives faced a frank unwillingness of the authorities to investigate this crime. Only this can explain the following, for example, fact: despite numerous appeals, the prosecutor's office of the Vedensky district opened a criminal case (No. 73024 under Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) only a year after the crime, on May 13, 2002. But besides, it only talked about Maiso Inderbaev, the investigation into him was very quickly - just two months later - suspended in accordance with Art. 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR (“in case of failure to identify the person to be brought as an accused”). At the beginning of 2004, the whereabouts of the Inderbaev brothers had not been established.

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Artillery shelled the 20th district from the territory of Khankala
the city of Grozny; according to preliminary data, three people were killed (two of them lived in the city of Shali, one in the village of Chechen-Aul, Grozny (rural) district), disappeared without a trace, perhaps another was also killed. Two people were wounded: one of them was taken to the hospital in the village of Starye Atagi, Grozny district, with broken legs, the other, Khasbulat Yunusov, born in 1967, a resident of the village of Novye Aldy, Zavodskoy district, Grozny, apparently with a contusion (he has bleeding from the nose and ears) was taken to a hospital in Ingushetia.

The victims were engaged in the export and artisanal processing of oil. According to available information, for money they agreed with the Russian military from the unit deployed near the well that they would not interfere with the pumping of oil. However, having received the money, they nevertheless transferred the coordinates to Khankala, and artillery fire was opened on the car that had already left.

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In the village of Alkhan-Kala, Grozny region, the Russian military carried out a “cleansing operation”, during which more than three dozen people were detained. All of them were taken to the local commandant's office,
and after the relatives had paid up to 3,000 rubles for each, they were released.

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