Search of Chechen civilians missing as a result of "zachistka" operations
People apply to Nazran office of Chechen Committee of National Salvation to help
them in search of their relatives missing as a result of retaliatory operations
carried out by the Russian military.
1. Hava Magomadova, resident of the village Chervlennaya of Naur district, detained
by Russian soldiers on 16 December 2002. All efforts of her relatives to find
out her whereabouts are vain.
2. Ramzan Gamarigov, b.in 1974, resident of Grozny, at 4, Lomonosov str.,. he
was captured by Russian servicemen in masks in his home on 29 December 2002. Nothing
is known about him.
3. Aslanbek Mezhidov, b. In 1974, resident of Verkhny Naur of Naur district, illegally
detained by Russian servicemen on 29 December 2002.
4. Ismail Makhmudov, b. In 1976, resident of the village Chervlennaya, Naur District.
Missing since 4 January 2003. His relatives could not find out anything about
his further fate.
5. Salman and Bakar Bantayevs, brothers, residents of the village Komsomolskoye
of Gudermess district, captured by Russian servicemen on 4 January 2003.
Nothing is known about their whereabouts since then.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 248, January 11, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia
For several days one of the chief towns of Chechnya has been subjected to the
retaliatory "special operation". According to our sources, 18 people were detained
and tens of the town residents were severely tortured in the course of the operation.
Several people are missing.
According to the eye-witnesses reports, on 9 January only, Russian servicemen
brutally killed 2 town residents. In Novaya street of Arghun the drunk Russian
soldiers shot Badrudy Baudynovich Aliev, b. in 1958, before his family members.
Another resident of Arghun - Almanzor Artsukhayev, aged 38, living at 38, Sharipov
street, was taken from his home by the Russians, and later the remains of his
blown up body were found in the outskirts of the town. People say, about ten missing
local residents have become the victims of summary execution varied out by the
Russian soldiers.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 248, January 11, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia
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Search of Chechen civilians missing as a result of "zachistka" operations .
1. Magomed Uvasovich Zhabayev, b. in 1953, resident of Urus-Martan, living in
Tobolskaya street, Grozny.
2. Akhmed Vakhidovich Tapsultanov, b. In 1951, disabled, resident of Achkhoy-Martan
district. Akhmed Tapsultanov stayed with Zhabayev when, early in the morning on
10 March 2002, Russian servicemen broke into his home and arrested both of them.
Their relatives applied to different force structures of Russia, but their efforts
to find out anything about their further fate are vain. According to one of the
former prisoners of filtration camp, resident of Grozny (he asked not to
mention his surname), Zhabayev and Tapsultanov had been kept in the basement of
Grozny district Police Department where they were subjected to severe tortures,
and most likely they are no more alive.
3. Beslan Kharkhanov, resident of the village Samashki of Achkhoy-Martan
district, was captured by the Russian servicemen in the course of retaliatory
operation on 7 December 2002. For several days he had been kept in the Department
of Special Services of Urus-martan district. Nothing more is known about his further
fate.
4. Edelbek Akuyev, resident of the village Samashki of Achkhoy-martan district,
was detained by Russian servicemen on 7 December 2002, in the course of retaliatory
operation, so called "zachistka" carried out in the village by the Russian military.
Acording to reliable forces, he had been kept on the territory of main Russian
military base in Hankala.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 249, 13 January 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia
According to our sources in Arghun, on 10 January 2002, at least ten residents
of the town were killed on the termination of the retaliatory operation - so called
"zachistka" carried out by the Russian military in Arghun. According to the eye-witnesses,
one of the most dreadful episodes of the retaliatory operation was the
detention of six men who were taken to the river bank and having been tied together
were blown up. The bodies are torn into pieces and it is impossible to identify
the victims of summary execution committed by the Russian servicemen.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 249, 13 January 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia