How Chechen citizens are invited to take part in the coming referendum.
Details of Mansur Mairbiev's kidnapping. Chechen Ministry of Finance serviceman's
illegal detention. Forced disappearances in Grozny. Now students of Grozny Medical
College have books to study. Forced disappearance and murder in the village Goity.
Dzhabrailov brothers and SRCF continue the joint humanitarian action inrefugee
camps of Ingushetia.
Report from the Chechen Republic
Achkhoi-Martan district
How Chechen citizens are invited to take part in the coming referendum
Achkhoi-Martan administration found a very unusual way of communication with local
residents. Children's parents were invited to parent meetings.You may imagine
how surprised they were when in schools teachers started speaking not about pupils'
success but about the coming referendum.
(From our correspondent.).
Details of Mansur Mairbiev's kidnapping
Kidnapped on February 6, 2003, Mansur Mairbiev, who lives in the village
Achkhoi-Martan, in Sovetskaya St. (see press-release No.360), was found inthe
village Michurin of Grozny. Local residents found Mairbiev unconscious tied to
the tree. Mansur had been subject to cruel beating - his jaw and some ribs were
broken. After the kidnapped recovered his conscience, he said that soldiers seized
his documents, beat and thrown him out from the car in Grozny with his eyes covered
with cloth. Who were the kidnappers he did not know, but he was sure that they
were members of federal forces.
(From our correspondent.).
Grozny
Chechen Ministry of Finance serviceman's illegal detention
On February 11, 2003 about 03.00 p.m. federals, who arrived in APCs and cars "UAZ",
broke into the house of Chechen Ministry of Finance serviceman Magomed Shagizaev
(who lives in Grozny, the village Staraya Sunzha, KalininSt.) and drove the master
of the house and his son Akhmed in the unknown direction. As Magomed's brother
said, soldiers came in 4 APCs and 2 "UAZ"s, broke into the house and made a pogrom.
"They took my passport that was in the coat hanging on the wall," said Shagizaev,
"After that they ordered us to stay on the floor for 30 minutes, otherwise they
would blow the house up. After they had left, my niece ran in and said that they
had arrested her father and brother, though they had looked through all the documents."
Members of Ministry of Finance and relatives of the kidnapped appealed to representatives
of Chechen Government, law-enforcement structures and procurator's office to help
in search. It's worth to remark that kidnappings of Ministry's servicemen are
not rare.
(From our correspondent.).
Forced disappearances in Grozny
On February 19, 2003 our correspondent learnt that Islam Kaimov (1980) and Isa
Batsiev (1982), residents of the village Kirov of Zavodsky district ofGrozny,
disappeared and still are not found. On February 10, 2003 in the morning they
drove towards the Chemical plant to take the broken car home. Islam's mother,
Aset Kaimova, is sure that Russian soldiers from the 41st block post that is situated
near the village were engaged in the kidnapping. District commandant together
with the relatives of the kidnapped arrived at the supposed place of disappearance.
He declared that his people would do everything to find the missing. Although
relatives appealed to all republican law-enforcement structures, they doubt militiamen's
search will be a success.
(From our correspondent.).
Now students of Grozny Medical College have books to study
Publishing Agency "Felix" from the city Rostov-na- Donu sent reference and text-books
to the Grozny Medical College. The number of books is sufficient to provide all
the students with them. College teachers are grateful for help.
(From our correspondent.).
Urus-Martan district
Forced disappearance and murder in the village Goity
On February 14, 2003 at 03.00 a.m. from the village Goity of Urus-Martan
district members of federal forces drove away Khachukaev Vakha Said-Eminovich,
born in 1979, who lived in 20 Kirov St. On February 15, 2003 parts of his body
were found on the outskirts of the village near Michurin garden. It seems Vakha
had been blown up.
(From our correspondent.).
Report from Ingushetia
Dzhabrailov brothers and SRCF continue the joint humanitarian action in refugee
camps of Ingushetia
Well-known Moscow businessmen brothers Dzhabrailov together with the Society of
Russian-Chechen Friendship continue the humanitarian action devoted to Muslim
holiday Kurban-Bairam. In the tent camps of Ingushetia they have already
distributed 100 tons of flour and more than 10 tons of meat.
(From our correspondent.).
Editor in chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Editor of this edition Oksana Bazhina.
This edition has been put out with the support of The National Endowmentfor Democracy,
as part of their "Russian-Chechen Information Partnership".