A series of brutal murders - a New Year gift of Russian military-men to Putin

The last week of the year 2002 Russian special services marked with atrocious murders of the Chechen civilians. But particular attention should be given to the cynicism of Russian servicemen that causes anxiety of the Chechen people: either beheaded bodies or heads without bodies are found not far from the homes of the killed. The tactics of the occupants is expected to sow panic and fear among the population of the Chechen Republic.

On the night of 19 December 2002 at about 4:00 a.m. Russian servicemen captured three students of Johar State Oil Institute. The young people

- Khizir Mametovich Dtuev, b. in 1984,
- Ramzan Saypievich Jabrailov, b. in 1984 and
- Bagdan Lemeevich Bekaev, b. in 1983;

were captured in their home at 125, Bagrationi Str. That evening the young people were at home getting ready for their exams. At about eight o'clock on 18 December, as usual, they knocked at the neighbor's door to let her know that they came back alive from the institute. Every morning at 9 o'clock they used to knock at her door to let her know that they were going to the institute. But that morning they did not appear. Troubled she went to them and found their room in a mess - their things were scattered about the room and the furniture was broken. She informed their relatives who, in their turn, informed Kadyrov''s Administration, temporary commandant's office as well as other agencies of force structures on the disappearance of the three students.

Ten days later, on 28 December, the passengers of the bus moving in the district where Bagrationi street is located, saw the bodies in the ruins of one of the destroyed houses. The bodies were identified - those were the three students captured and murdered by Russian servicemen. The throats of the young people are cut and there are bullet openings in the heads of the killed.

On 29 December 2002, a head of a man and a passport of Tamerlan Nozhaevich Ibraghimov, b. in 1982, was found on the territory of the Central Market in Arghun. This young man, judging from the passport, lived in Arghun, at 34, Sakharozavodskaya str. On the night of 29 December at 02:00 a.m. an explosion was heard not far from the block-post #23 in Johar. In the morning people found fragments of a human body scattered around in a radius of 200 meters. Later, having examined the place people found a rope and it was concluded that the young man was bound to a tree at the junction of Zavety Ilyicha and Klubnaya streets.

In April 2002, at a distance of 50m from the bus-stop "Sovetskaya" one more man was blown up exactly in the same way. On December 31 2002, at the bus-stop "Neftyannik", and again, not far from the block-post #23, a resident of the village Proletarskoye was killed. At about 16:30,

Ramzan Yagulbayevich Isayev, b. in 1976,

drove to the bus-stop, left the car and crossed the street to get to his sister's stall across the street. At that very moment somebody shot from a black "Volga" car moving from the blpck-post # 23. The young man fell down. He was dead.

A,Saidov, Chechenpress, January 2, 2003