Retaliatory operations in Arghun, Dolinskoye and Vedeno
On 2 February 2003, the village Dolinskoye of Grozny district was subject to so-called
"address zachistka" operation. According to local residents, Russian servicemen
detained two young people, resident of the village.
According to the information obtained from the residents of Vedeno district, on
6 February 2003, Russian servicemen carried out next "zachistka" in the centre
of Vedeno. As a result of the special operation, about 30 local inhabitants, mainly
young people, have been detained.
On 4 February 2003, Russian servicemen conducted new retaliatory operation in
the town of Arghun. According to the eye-witnesses, the soldiers blocked several
streets in the town, and carried out mass house-to-house search, resulting in
killing, disappearance and wounding several town residents.
On 31 January 2003, the village Valerik of Achkhoi-Martan district was subject
to shelling on the part of the Russian military. According to the eye-witness
reports, two villagers have been injured as a result of shelling.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 267, February 8, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia
The facts of disappearance of young Chechen women have become more frequent for
some time past in the Chechen Republic. The most resonance has had the fact of
kidnapping which took place in January 2003 - Anzhela Shakhmurzaeva was
kidnapped by the Russian servicemen in the centre of Grozny. According to not
authentic information, early in February 2003, a fist year student of the Chechen
State University (the name of the young girl is not known) disappeared in Grozny.
Today, it became known that Russian servicemen kidnapped a young Chechen woman.
Several days ago on one of the checkpoints in Urus-Martan district the Russian
servicemen captured Luiza Tsitsaeva, born in 1971, the mother of three children,
living in Urus-Martan. Nothing is known about her fate. Until December 2002 Tsitsaeva
lived in the tent camp for Chechen refugees "Bela" arranged in the village Orjonikidzevskaya
on the territory of Ingushetia. On 15 December 2003, having trusted in promises
of Kadyrov's administration, Luiza, together with her children returned
to Chechnya. A month and a half later the young woman was captured and is listed
among the missing. The residents of Chechnya also note that all the kidnapped
young women were known for their beauty.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 267, February 8, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia