| Large-scale Capture of Chechen Families in
Nalchik As DAYMOHK agency informed with reference to its sources in Kabardino-Balkarien, in the evening on December 22, at 20.00 Moscow time, in the city of Nalchik Russian occupiers and their local puppets beat cruelly and took away the inhabitants of the settlement Avtury in Shalinsky region of Chechnya. Among them there were Khuimad Bataev, 60 years old; Yusoup Bataev, 19 years old; Rashid Bataev and Soultan Bataev, both 21 years old; Hava Bataeva, 14 years old; Aishat Bataeva, 5 years old; Zoulai Magomadova, 38 years old; Movsar Magomadov, 19 years old and the 20 years old, pregnant Madina Mouskieva from the town of Argun. They all belong to one family and lived in Kabardino-Balkarien as refugees at the address: Nalchik, Stroitelnaya Street, 18/2, APT. 80. In the afternoon on December 23, at 11 a.m. Moscow time, again in Nalchik, two refugee-sisters from the settlement Mesker-Yurt in Shalinski region of Chechnya: Zina, 26 years old, the mother of two children and Zarema, 30 years old, were also heavily beaten and taken away in the unknown direction. The sisters’ family name is unfortunately not identified. They lived in Nalchik on K. Kuliev Street, (house No is not known), Apt. 55. The local resident Petimat, who used to live together with the two captured Chechen refugees, the Russian occupiers an their local collaborators were beating heavily, pulling her by her hair from the fifth floor to the first one and back until she fainted. After that, they threw the woman in unconscious state into her flat and locked up together with her three small children, whose eyes and mouth had been previously stuck with the adhesive tape. Large blood puddles were left in the flats of the captured refugees. Kavkaz Center 2004-12-28 28.12.2004 Chechen Village Receives No Food for Three Days CHECHNYA, Vedensky Region. (InformCenter ORChD). On December 25th, after a three day “cleansing operation”, divisions of federal forces unblockaded the village of Dargoy in the Vedensky area. On December 22nd, the village was completely surrounded for the carrying out of a special action to locate participants of the Chechen armed resistance. As a result of the operation, no local residents were detained. However, the operation led to a shortage of food because none could be delivered. Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News Agency [2004-12-27-Chech-06] 28.12.2004 Hungry Soldiers Steal Food from Chechens CHECHNYA, Vedensky Region. On December 25th, inhabitants of the village of Dishni-Vedeno of the Vedensky region reported that their houses are regularly plundered by Russian soldiers from divisions deployed in vicinities of village. Usually soldiers rush into houses under the pretext of "checks" and “address operations”. They detain nobody, but after every search food disappears from the houses. Inhabitants of Dishni-Vedeno believe the incidents are caused by the bad food situation in the army divisions located in the Vedensky area. The villagers believe the robberies are a result of the soldiers being underfed. Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News Agency [2004-12-27-Chech-06] Top Chechen Official Kadyrov Honored by Putin, Rights Groups Astonished Created: 29.12.2004 15:46 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:46 MSK, MosNews President Vladimir Putin awarded Chechnya's Kremlin-leaning deputy prime minister the Hero of the Russian Federation — the country's highest decoration. Ramzan Kadyrov, son of the slain president Akhmad Kadyrov, was decorated with the honor for courage and heroism displayed during the performance of his duties, the president's press service told Itar-Tass. The news astonished rights groups, who have accused Kadyrov of kidnapping and murder. Helsinki Group's Tatyana Lokshina said the incident "discredits the award Hero of Russia. If Russia has such heroes, it is hard to say what our state has sunk to," Reuters reported. Kadyrov leads a several thousand-strong irregular army called the "kadyrovtsy" accused by activists of disproportionate violence in operations to detain young men suspected of rebel ties. "There is information that Ramzan Kadyrov does not just order kidnappings and abductions, but actually takes part in them himself," said Lokshina, who covers Chechnya for Russia's oldest rights organization. December 29th 2004 · Prague Watchdog Chechen settlements subjected to shelling by military units Ruslan Isayev, North Caucasus – On the night of Sunday-Monday (December 26-27) the outskirts of the Dzhalka settlement in Gudermes District was subjected to shelling by artillery from a military unit stationed nearby. The inhabitants spent nearly all night in cellars. The shelling did not stop until early morning. Several shells landed in the courtyard of a family of local residents, the Elmurzayevs. By a fortunate coincidence there was no one at home at that moment. The household suffered considerable material damage: doors and windows were blown out, and walls were cracked. Recently soldiers shelled the outskirts of the settlement of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali District all night. Minkail Ezhiev, co-chairman of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, was a witness to this shelling: “In spite of the claim by the Russian military that the strike was carried out on concrete targets on the outskirts of the village, in a tract of forest, fragments of the exploding shells hit roofs and landed in the courtyards of local residents’ houses,’ the human rights activist said. Recently the locality of Goiskoe in Urus-Martan District was also shelled. There, too, there were no casualties among the inhabitants, as over the last ten years people have now learned to take cover in places of safety as soon as shelling or bombing begin. |