At about 2:00 a.m. on the night of 28 January 2003, in Gudermes, unknown
people in camouflage, who even did not try to cover their faces, captured 21-year
old Khamzat Vadudovich Musaev, living I Repin St., and drove him in the unknown
direction. As it became known, Khamzat had arrived from Kalmyikia a few days before
his disappearance.
The same night, 21-year-old Zaurbek Saidov, living in Kavkazskaya St., Gudermes,
was also captured by the unknown people in camouflage. According to his relatives,
Zaurbek has been operated on recently.
The day before, Im-Ali Saikhanov, aged 22, living in Novoselskaya Street
of Gudermes was also captured and taken away by the unknown people.
According to the relatives of the captured young men, they have been seized by
the people of Sulim Yamodaev, and militia, being aware of the capturing, did not
resist to the fact of hostage-taking.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 276, February 18, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia
On 14 February 2003, the residents of the village Belgatoy of Shali district buried
the behaded body of a young woman.
Supposedly, according to certain versions, the murdered woman might be a
student of the Chechen State University, missing since the beginning of February,
or it might be the body of Angela Shakhmurzaeva who disappeared as a result of
"zachistka" operation carried out by the Russian servicemen in the area of central
market in Grozny.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 276, February 18, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia
Mass burial was found in the environs of the village Kapustino of Nauri district,
Chechnya, on 8 February 2003. The shepherds found seven bodies out of which
five were beheaded.
The bodies of the killed were taken to Mozdok by the Russian military. Next day,
on 11 February, the corpses that had been identified, were returned to the relatives.
Among the victims are the residents of the villages Avangard, Alpatovo and state
farm after Lenin. It has been established that Makhdy Elmurzaev and his brother
were the residents of the village Komsomolskoye.
All the seven people were listed missing as a result of the "zachistka" operation
carried out by the Russian military.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 276, February 18, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia