May 12, 2001

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At 4.30 in the village of Geldagana (New Life) of the Kurchaloevsky district, the Russian military surrounded the house of Khamdi Khumadievich Gerikhanov, born in 1954, and then broke into it and killed his son, Umar, born in 1982. The military shot the owner of the house in the leg, and then kicked him and beat him with rifle butts. According to neighbors and relatives, when he saw his murdered son on the floor, he said that he now had no reason to live. Leaving home, the soldiers shot him in the temple.

On the same morning, the Russian military seized Khamdi Gerikhanov's brothers and nephew, who lived not far from his household on the opposite side of the same street, as well as their neighbor. After being tortured and beaten, they were all released.

The names of the detained people and the injuries inflicted on them:

✓ Ilyas Khumadievich Gerikhanov, born in 1966 At the place of detention, the military injected an unknown solution into his arm, after which red spots and a rash appeared on his body, and he had poor control over his actions. The victim himself believed that kerosene was injected into the vein.

✓ Khamzat Khumadievich Gerikhanov, born in 1952 He had a broken right foot. Doctors who examined him after his release determined that he had suffered a concussion as a result of the beatings.

✓ Gairbek Khumadievich Gerikhanov, born in 1959 He was injured in the chest and lower back.

✓ Abubakar Khuseinovich Umarov, born in 1980 Heavily beaten.

There was information in the media that the murder was committed by militants (Chechen resistance fighters - approx. "New Dosh"), however, relatives and neighbors of Hamdi and Umar Gerikhanov are sure that they were Russian soldiers. The detention of their relatives confirms that members of the Russian law enforcement agencies were operating in the village that morning.
 

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At about 5 am in the city of Argun, the Russian military abducted the caretaker of a local store, Mahatdin Khasbulatov, who lived at the address: Lenina st., 111, apt. 42. Formal
the reason for his detention may have been that he went outside to smoke. In the city, as well as on the territory of the rest of Chechnya, there was then an officially unannounced, but observed by all "curfew". Anyone who found himself outside his home at night or early in the morning risked either being killed or captured and taken away in an unknown direction.

As soon as it became known about the disappearance of Mahatdin Khasbulatov, his relatives began searching for him. However, nothing new was learned about him during the day. The next morning, his disfigured corpse was found in the garage area. According to the description of eyewitnesses, the scalp was taken from the dead man, and his head was smashed with a heavy object. There were numerous signs of beatings and torture on the body. At the garages, as local residents testified, two more corpses were found. It is not known if they were later identified.

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When leaving from Alleroy towards the village. An armored personnel carrier of the Russian troops, closing the column of five armored vehicles, was blown up by an explosive device in the Tsentoroi of the Kurchaloevsky district. Immediately after the explosion, the Russian military opened fire indiscriminately.
At this time, three young men were returning from Tsentoroy to Alleroy. Hearing the explosion and seeing the armored personnel carriers, they decided to hide, hoping that the vehicles would pass by. Young people went down the road and lay down behind the foundation of an abandoned building. But the military noticed them and fired. As a result of aimed shooting, one of them (presumably, it was Uzbek Rashidov) was killed, two others were wounded. A 14-year-old girl who was in her garden was also injured. Roofs were damaged in nearby houses, windows were broken.
 

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In the evening, before the curfew, Yusha Azievich Luluev, born in 1961, and Lom-Ali Abdul-Kerimovich Khudaev, born in 1968, were returning to their home in Eshilkhatoi, which had been blocked by the Russian military by that time, from the district center of Vedeno. r., a disabled person who lost one eye as a child. They were stopped a few hundred meters from the village. Local residents tried to come to their aid, but were driven away by the military with machine gun fire. They learned about what happened to these people later only on the third day, immediately after the troops left the vicinity of Eshilhatoy.

Relatives, finally reaching the place where the soldiers were stationed, saw that the dead Lom-Ali Khudaev was leaning against a tree, near which, perhaps, he was beaten with machine gun butts. The head of this man turned into a shapeless mass, his hands were cut, and a knife wound gaped on his stomach. The victim also had bite marks from dogs. The Russian military cut off Yusha Lulaev's ears. In the cut stomach he had stones and earth. There were also deep stab wounds on other parts of the body.

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