July 21, 2001

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On the night of July 21, in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, a UAZ car was blown up at a crossroads near a former furniture factory. Two employees of the Russian power structures were killed, three more were wounded.

In the same area on the highway near the entrance to the park. V. Lenin was blown up by an armored personnel carrier.

Another armored car was blown up between 8.00 and 8.15 on Pobeda Avenue between the Friendship of Peoples monument and the destroyed building of the former drama theater. As a result of the activation of a radio-controlled landmine, three Russian soldiers were killed and four more were injured.

A gunfight ensued after the explosion. Unknown people fired at the military with a grenade launcher, they responded by firing indiscriminately from automatic weapons and grenade launchers. Hand grenades were thrown into the ruins of nearby houses. Hundreds of spent submachine gun and machine-gun shells, grenade fuses were later found at the scene of the incident. Eyewitnesses claim that the military burned down a private cafe. They wounded and carried off somewhere a local resident. Memorial Human Rights Center failed to find out anything about his name and what happened to him later.

In the residential areas surrounding the site of the explosion of the armored personnel carrier, a “cleansing” was later carried out. According to unconfirmed information from other sources, the military captured and took away with them a large number of young people (up to 24 people). It is not known if they were all released.

"Cleansings" were carried out in other parts of the city. So, in the village Voykov, Oktyabrsky district, three people were detained. The Russian military blocked the residential area and carried out searches at the Okruzhnaya bus stop, at the 20th, 30th and 56th sections of the city.

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In the morning and at night the village of Tsa-Vedeno was bombed; The property of the local population has suffered significant damage, and there are casualties among the residents. Lemi Mazhdaev, about 50 years old, was wounded. His house was destroyed and a GAZ-53 truck was smashed. Another resident of this village, 45-year-old Uma Khasanovich Isaev, was taken to the Shali district hospital with a leg wound and soon died there.

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During the “cleansing” of the village of Alleroy in the Kurchaloy district, a mute disabled person (developmentally) Elibek Rizvanovich Temurbulatov was killed. He was afraid of the Russian military and, noticing them in the distance, quickly went to the house.

He was immediately fired upon and beaten already wounded. Realizing that they were shooting at a disabled person, the military forced the parents to write a acknowledgment of their innocence. In case of refusal, they threatened to crush the car in which they were with two armored personnel carriers. While in this way the military provided themselves with an alibi, precious time was lost. When Elibek Temurbulatov was taken to the hospital, about two hours had already passed. It was not possible to save him.

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