August 28, 2001

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At 10 o'clock on Mayakovsky Street in Grozny, in the area of the northern bazaar, the Russian military, who arrived in armored personnel carrier No. 073 (22nd OBRON), detained a local resident Muslim Idrisovich Amzaev, born in 1977, living at the address: st. Bohdan Khmelnitsky, 131, building 4, apt. 8. Merchants and visitors to the market, mostly women, tried to prevent him from being taken away. But to no avail.

The reason for the detention of the young man, apparently, was the absence of an insert of a citizen of the Russian Federation in the passport.

In search of the abducted relatives applied to the Leninsky district police department of the city, the prosecutor's office in Grozny and the military prosecutor's office. However, the fact of Muslim Amzaev's detention was not confirmed anywhere - he disappeared.

On August 30, on the fact of his abduction (Article 126 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the city prosecutor's office opened criminal case No. 12117. HRC "Memorial" does not know how the investigation took place and what its outcome was.

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In the village of Tsotsin-Yurt near the bridge, as a result of a mine explosion, the following people received shrapnel wounds and died: Sultan Gilanievich Dedigov (Dedishev), born in 1958, Roshan Abdullaevna Dedigieva (Dedisheva), born in 1964, Zargan Arsaeva, born in 1960. R.

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On August 28 and 29, more than 500 people from the Vedeno and Kurchaloy districts of Chechnya arrived in camps for internally displaced persons in Ingushetia. Only from the village of Vedeno, 19 families (126 people) moved here. Residents of the villages of Tsotsin-Yurt and the village of Mesker-Yurt are leaving their homes.

The exodus of the population began after the intensification of hostilities in these places. The number of refugees increased sharply after the armed formations of the CRI left the villages of the Vedensky district, and after that special operations and “cleansing” operations began there. Most often, these "events" resulted in mass raids, accompanied by illegal arrests, murders and kidnappings. As a result of air and artillery shelling, many houses were destroyed. Frightened by mass repressions, during which all young men, including boys aged 12-13, were detained and taken away, people fled Chechnya in search of safety.

But the officials of the migration service of Ingushetia refused to register new migrants, according to rumors, this was an unspoken order from the authorities. The increase in the number of refugees came into conflict with the campaign to return them to their homeland, and therefore the best remedy was simply not to record them. The people who arrived in Ingushetia were preparing to go to the mosques on August 31 and during the Friday prayers ask the local residents to help them with all possible assistance in settling in a new place.

All this happened against the backdrop of assurances by the head of the interim administration of Chechnya that a peaceful life was being established in the republic, and that refugees could safely return home.

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On the southeastern outskirts of the village of Starye Atagi, Russian armored vehicles and vehicles crossing the Argun River were fired upon. Two soldiers were killed and several were injured.

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