INFORMATION CENTER OF THE
SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN- CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP
Press release No. 353, February 3, 2003
Forced disappearance in the village Orekhovo.
New data about the consequences of shelling in the village Neftyanka.
Kidnapping in the village Neftyanka.
New block posts are being erected in Chechnya.
Report from the Chechen Republic
Achkhoi-Martan district
Forced disappearance in the village Orekhovo
On January 28, 2003 at 3.00 a.m. having arrived in APCs, members of Russian law-enforcement
structures in camouflage broke into the house ofTaus Murtazov, aged 30, who lives
in the village Orekhovo of Achkhoi- Maratndistrict. They seized the man and drove
him away in the unknown direction.Local law-enforcement officials denied their
having been engaged in thisincident. It became known that Murtazov has never taken
part in the socalled illegal armed formations and fought in the war.
(From our correspondent.).
Vedensky district
New data about the consequences of shelling in the village Neftyanka As it has
already been reported (press-release No. 351) on January 26-27,2003 the village
Neftyanka of Vedensky district was subject to shelling on the side of one of the
federal divisions dislocated nearby. We publish new information about victims
and damage. Salman Eshiev, aged 50, was seriously wounded because of the
direct shellhit in his house. The man's daughter Malika got less heavy wounds.
Salman's house is practically destroyed - the shell breached the roof, the walls,
thewindows and the doors. Albek Bakashev (60 years old) was wounded in the result
of shell explosionin the yard of his house. The building was also partly destroyed
- thewindows and the doors were broken. Kidnapping in the village Neftyanka
On January 27, 2003 at daytime in the village Neftyanka of Vedenskydistrict
GRU (general investigation department) members of Russian armedforces broke into
Shamil Khabusiev's (45 years old) house and drove himaway. Later there came unconfirmed
information that he is still in thedistrict and soon would be released. However,
nothing has been heard fromthe detained yet. His relatives appealed to law-enforcement
structures and otherinstitutions demanding to search the missing man.
They also added thatShamil, being lame in the leg because of the injury he got
in youth, hasnever taken part in military operations.
(From our correspondent.).
Sunzhensky district
New block posts are being erected in Chechnya
On the highway Baku-Rostov some discharged in 2002 block posts are beingrestored.
For instance, Russian soldiers erect new wooden block post nearthe village Assinovskaya.
(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
Endowment for Democracy, as part of their "Russian- Chechen Information Partnership".
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