Nazgran, RUSSIA. The bodies of three Oil Institute students were discovered
on 29 December near a bus terminal in the Oktyabr district, Grozny. The bodies
carried the marks of a violent death: all three throats had been cut, and
their heads showed signs of being shot at close range.
The three eighteen-year-old students – Khyzyr Dotuyev, Bogdan Bikayev and
Ramzan Dzhabrailov – all came from the village of Makhkety in Vedeno region,
and had rented a flat together in Grozny, in order not to travel every day
from Makhkety to their classes. According to neighbours, the young men were
arrested and taken away in armoured vehicles by Russian troops. Teaching
staff of the Oil Institute wrote to all the authorities, including a personal
appeal to the head of the pro-Russian head of the Chechen government, Akhmad
Kadyrov, but no steps were taken to search for the missing men.