June 22, 2001

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A resident of the village of Selmentauzen, Vedeno district, contacted the office of HRC "Memorial" in Nazran, asking not to be named for personal safety. According to him, the office staff recorded the history of the detention of Uvais Ilyasovich Shaipov, born in 1967.

On or about May 23, 2001, at about 11:00 at the checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Tevzana, Vedensky District, the Russian military, among whom was a certain Igor Strelkov, dropped Shaipov out of a taxi coming from the city of Shali. After the arrest, they pushed the man into an APC and took him in the direction of neighboring Khatuni.

The mother of Uvais Shaipov, who was also at the scene, followed them. Outside the village, the military noticed persecution. They stopped the car in which the mother of the man they detained was sitting, and, threatening to use weapons, forced her to return. However, the woman already understood that the military was moving towards the location of Russian units on a hill between three closely located settlements (Khatuni, Makhkety and Tevzana).

A little later, she drove up there in another car and, according to eyewitnesses of the incident, demanded to release her son. The officer who came out to her said that he would be released after interrogation.

However, Uvais Shaipov was not released either on that day or on the following days. Worried relatives again turned to the commanders of the Russian units stationed in the area. Contact was established with them, during which they managed to obtain consent to the release of the detainee. To begin with, the military offered to surrender two machine guns. After some time, they asked to bring a pistol of the Stechkin system, and then, in addition to everything, they also demanded 1,000 US dollars.

The family of Uvais Shaipov was not able to pay such an amount, and as a result, his traces were lost. The military, the farther, the more insistently they began to assert that no one even with a similar surname got to them.

The detainee is a native of the village of Selmentauzen, Vedeno district. His mother is the sister of Markha Khoguyeva, a resident of the village of Makhkety, who, along with her husband and underage son, was shot by the Russian military on the night of May 13.

Three months earlier, the Russian military had detained Uvais Shaipov's younger brothers, 18-year-old Abubakar and 26-year-old Mukhtar.

Abubakar Shaipov's relatives managed to release him immediately, handing over a pistol as a ransom. Mukhtar Shaipov was taken to the location of the military unit, where he was in a pit for two weeks. During his imprisonment, he was repeatedly beaten and tortured. He was also released only after paying a ransom. This time - money.

The whereabouts of Uvais Ilyasovich Shaipov as of mid-2004 is unknown.

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At 10.50 in the Nozhai-Yurt district near the river. Yamansu, three hundred meters from the Kazbek checkpoint, was blown up by a minor V.V. Saipov. The victim lived in the village of Balansu, there is no information about his future fate.

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At dawn, a resident of the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan district, Sultan Eskaev, was driving livestock to pasture. On the outskirts of the settlement, an unknown person approached him and fired several shots at close range. He fired a control shot into the head of the already fallen man.
The killer turned towards the women who were near the scene and shouted: "Stay away, the feds are here!" Then he got on his bike and drove off in an unknown direction.

Residents of Gekhi are at a loss as to the motives for the murder of a fellow villager. He was not an employee of the administration of the village or district, did not hold any significant positions. The last place of work is the administrator of the local market.

The crime was committed on the western outskirts of the settlement, not far from the location of the Russian military unit.

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A 55-year-old Akhmad Tsukuev, a resident of the village of Alleroy, Kurchaloevsky district, went out to graze public cattle in the morning. Soon Russian soldiers appeared on the pasture not far from the village. They walked, conducting, as the locals believe, reconnaissance of the area.

The military started shooting at the herd from a distance, as a result of which seven cows were wounded and killed. Then they beat the shepherd so that, as they explained, he would not be too indignant at the shooting of animals.

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