August 30, 2001

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Another “cleansing” operation was carried out in the village of Achkhoy-Martan. The night before, the leaders of the district and the village were informed of its beginning.

In the morning, the military blocked the settlement and banned the movement of vehicles, and the movement of pedestrians was also limited. At the same time, the documents of the residents were checked on all the streets, and random searches of houses were carried out.

The searches were accompanied by robberies. In the house of Aset Umarova (Sadovaya St., 29), the military scattered clothes and dishes, turned over and smashed furniture. In the Ismailovs' house (Lenin Street), what was happening also looked more like a pogrom than a search. At the same time, someone else’s car was stolen from the yard and brought in for repairs: one of the members of this family is a car mechanic. The military took away a two-cassette tape recorder from Zhanna Kim, who lives in the center of the village, and the owner was unable to produce a passport for it. On Frunze Street, they confiscated cigarettes, biscuits in packs, soft drinks from the Eskerkhanov family from a food stall in the courtyard of the house.

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At night in the village of Novogroznensky, the Russian military, who arrived in two UAZ-452 cars (the so-called tablet) and three ordinary UAZs, abducted the father of six children, Magamed Alimsultanovich Dzhabrailov, born in 1965, from his home. He had been detained by security forces before. For example, on July 18, 2001, he was taken away from his sister's house in Gudermes, but, thanks to the efforts of his relatives, he was released 10 days later.

This time, despite the appeals of the abductee's wife, Tabarik Dzhabrailova, to all the power structures of the district (VOVD, FSB and the Gudermes prosecutor's office), it was not possible to establish his whereabouts.

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Near the village of Starye Atagi, the military fired from a retractable post on a passenger bus (registration number 139 AM 95/RUS), which was traveling from the village of Shatoi to the city of Grozny. The fire was fired from the armored personnel carrier No. 305. As a result, a young resident of the Shatoi region received a gunshot wound to the chest.

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At about 13:00 in the city of Urus-Martan, employees of Russian security forces entered apartment 9 at the address: Sovetskaya St., 20. The first thing they did there was to throw a grenade without a fuse into the room where there was a woman with a four-month-old child. Then, trying to tie him up, they attacked Abu Khamzatovich Khasuev, born in 1978, who was resting in his room. After a small fight they succeeded. They threw a towel over his head and wrapped it with tape. After that, they carried me out in their arms, put me in the car and drove away in an unknown direction. None of the “security officials” asked if this was the one they needed. They didn’t even ask for my passport, which was left at home. Relatives were not told what he was suspected of and where he would be taken.

From the neighbors' story, it became known that the security forces arrived in cars: a dark cherry Niva and a white VAZ-2107. They were without registration numbers, with tinted windows.

The family of the kidnapped young man lives in the center of Urus-Martan in a two-storey apartment building. Opposite him, at the post, employees of the district commandant's office are constantly on duty. They were there on the day described, but they did not interfere in what was happening.

For clarification, the relatives, both in writing and orally, applied to all regional authorities. But it was not possible to establish the whereabouts of Abu Khasuev. In the VOVD, the ROVD, the prosecutor's office of the Urus-Martan district, they were told that they knew nothing about the people who had come for him.

The mother of the kidnapped, Zura Abdullayevna Khasuyeva, asked for the help of the military commandant, Major General Geydar Hajiyev. He replied that he allegedly was not in the city that day and he was not aware of the events that had taken place. Then he advised me to approach him on Monday, September 3rd.

On that day at ten o'clock the woman again came to the building of the commandant's office of the Urus-Martan district. But the general said that he was not ready for an answer, and rescheduled the meeting for noon.

When Zura Khasuyeva arrived at the time indicated by him, Heydar Hajiyev first asked:
- Is that the one from the two-story building?
“Yes,” the woman confirmed.
- He is not here. They must have been sent to Chernokozovo,” the commandant concluded the conversation.

She went to the pre-trial detention center indicated by him, but did not find any confirmation that her son had been taken there.
In general, in search of Abu Khasuev, his relatives turned to the administration, the military commandant's office, the prosecutor's office, the ROVD and VOVD of the Urus-Martan district, and the administration of the city of Urus-Martan. In addition, they filed an application addressed to the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Man and Citizen in the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kalamanov. All this did not bring any result: as of the end of 2007, the whereabouts of this man remained unclear.

On the fact of his abduction, the district prosecutor's office twice initiated criminal cases: first it happened on October 27, 2001 (No. 25140), and then at the end of the year - on December 22 (No. 25170). And both times they were suspended on the same grounds: “due to the impossibility of identifying the persons to be brought in as defendants” (Article 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR).

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