INFORMATION CENTER OF THE
SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP
Press release No. 350 January 28, 2003
New details of the forced disappearances in the village Achkhoi - Martan.
Murder of Shali ROVD member. Illegal detentions in Shali.
Report from the Chechen Republic
Achkhoi-Martan district
New details of the forced disappearances in the village Achkhoi-Martan
On January 25, 2003 residents of Achkhoi-Martan the Dzhabrailovs and the Galaevs
appealed to the regional department of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship
with a request to help in search of their missing relatives. It has already been
reported about the kidnapping of several young people in Achkhoi- Martan on November
5, 2002 (press-release No. 308, November 15, under the headline "New wave of forced
disappearances"). Today we publish the details of this tragedy, which we've learnt
from the relatives of the disappeared. Dzhabrailov Ibragim Lechaevich (born in
1976 in the village Achkhoi-Martan) lived in 30 Lenin St.
On November 5, 2002 soldiers in APCs and cars "UAZ" approached his house, climbed
over the fence and surrounded the building. As Kisa Dzhabrailova, the mother of
the illegally detained, said, there were a lot of servicemen in the yard, all
in camouflage, armed, some wore masks. The woman could not say for sure whether
they were Russian or Chechen. At that time her husband Lechi Dzhabrailov and two
sons Ibragim and Alkhan aged 13 were inside. While searching the house, strangers
found Ibragim, seized him and pulled him outside. Some time later they returned
in to the house, took Ibragim's clothes and footwear, and after that drove away
in the unknown direction. However, the attackers left the documents of the
kidnapped at home.
The Dzhabrailoves phoned the local ROVD (police station), situated in front of
their house, immediately and reported about the accident. The head of the police
station said that according to his data, Ibragim had been seized by soldiers of
one of the divisions dislocated in the main federal military base in Khankala.
However,in Khankala servicemen declared that they did not possess any information
of that kind but would do their best to find the missing person. The head of the
district administration Shamil Buraev during the talk with Ibragim's relatives
said that members of administration would take efforts to search the forced disappeared.
Dzhabrailovs also appealed to the procurator's office of the Chechen Republic,
to the head of Chechen administration Akhmad Kadyrov, to the special representative
of the Russian president in Chechnya for human rights and freedoms Abdul-Khakim
Sultygov. In the procurator's office they were told that several law-enforcement
structures had been requested on the question but the place where the kidnapped
was kept had not been discovered yet. On the same day, on November 5, 2002,
before visiting the Dzhabraiulovfamily, the same soldiers organized a pogrom in
the houses, owned by Achkhoi-Martan residents Gakaev and Galaev. In Galaev's house
military men seized Galaev Usman Salmanovich (studied in the 11th form) and even
did not let him put on clothes. He is still considered to be missing.Usman's relatives
addressed all possible instances but in vain. In Gakaev's house Arsan Gakaev aged
30, who lives in Nuradilov St., became the victim of the attackers. Arsan is married,
has a child, works as a massager. Having been subject to cruel beating, he was
thrown out of the car by the federals on the outskirts of the village, near the
Russian block post and the building of the passport service. After that Arsan
spent several weeks in the local hospital and then in one of the hospitals of
Ingushetia. He knows nothing about the lives of his neighbors Dzhabrailov and
Galaev.
(From our correspondent.).
Shali district Murder of Shali ROVD member
On January 23, 2002 in the town Shali in the result of bomb detonation, which
had been put in the car "UAZ-469", a member of Shali police station who lived
in Lugovaya St. was killed. The same day members of Shali criminal investigation
department and representatives of federal forces carried on a special operation.
Next day at dawn about 20 residents of the town, who were suspected in being involved
in the crime, were detained. Among the arrested were Gaisumov brothers - Movsar
(1966), Mussa (1968) and Movlad-Khan (1968) who lived in the same street as the
killed. About 16-17 people were released during the following two days because
it was proved they were not guilty. According to Gaisumov brothers, the rights
of the detained hadn't been violated by militiamen.
At present three men are still kept in jail. Perhaps they will beaccused of murder.
(From our correspondent.).
Illegal detentions in Shali
On January 17, 2002 at 4.00 a.m. in the town Shali Russian soldiers, who
had come in 7 military units (APCs, cars "Ural" and "UAZ"), forced the gate's
lock and broke into the house owned by Vakha Ibragimov (1956). They beat him and
his two sons Islam (1981) and Ilyas (1984) and after that drove them away. Two
Ibragimov's neighbors - Rashid Saidullaev (1957) and his cousin Apti Saidullaev
(1973) - were also illegally detained. The same day Ilyas Ibragimov was found
beaten between the settlements Mesker-Urt and Tsotsin-Yurt at the border of Shali
and Kurchaloi districts. On January 19, 2003 in the evening on the outskirts
of the town Argun soldiers thrown out of the cars cruelly beaten and absolutely
naked Vakha Ibragimov and Rashid Saidullaev. Relatives of the rest disappeared
appealed to Shali ROVD, local procurator's and commandant's offices, however,
no information concerning Islam Ibragimov and Apti Saidullaev has been received
yet.
(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".
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