The Chechen Times

Abduction in the Chechen village of Goiskoye

At 3 am on March 6 unknown armed people kidnapped Edik Mamakayev, 40, from the village of Goiskoye (a settlement of the Michurin state farm) in Urus-Martan region, Chechnya. The abductors that were wearing masks and camouflage burst into the Mamakayevs' house and without explanations shoveled the master of the house, right in his nightwear, into a UAZ vehicle and took him to an unknown destination.

The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society reported on March 11, that in the morning Mamakayev's family turned for help to the head of the village administration and the police chief in the village. However, Mamakayev's whereabouts are still unknown.

Three months ago the Russian military detained and took away Mamakayev's younger brother, Iliyas, 20 years of age. In mid- February his dead body
was found near the village of Gikalo, in the woodland along the Rostov-Baku motorway.

Edik Mamakayev is the single father of three small children. According to his fellow villagers, the Mamakayev brothers had been occupied with their household, ranched cattle, and had not participated in combat or the so called illegal armed formations.

[12.03.2003 15:49] Prima News Agency