An appeal to the OSCE by residents of Grozny, an attack by employees of the military commandant's office on a refugee center in Gudermes, and a strange suicide attempt by a Russian soldier

July 28, 2001

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In the city of Grozny, about a hundred women - mothers and relatives of the missing - prepared an appeal to the OSCE with an appeal to assist in the search for people who disappeared after being detained by Russian law enforcement agencies.

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At about six o'clock, employees of the military commandant's office of the Gudermes district, having broken down the doors, broke into the TAC for refugees, located in the former building of a biochemical plant at the address: Gudermes, Depovskaya st., 76.

Due to the lack of temporary registration, 11 men were detained. They were taken to the territory of the district VOVD. Through the efforts of the district police inspector and the director of the TsVR, all the detainees were released within one day. The building of the center suffered material damage (locks were broken, doors were broken), but the military commandant's office did not compensate anything.

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Isa Algiraev, a resident of the village of Starye Atagi (lives on Nuradilov Street), received shrapnel wounds and was taken to the local hospital. The incident occurred at a bus stop at the exit from the settlement, when a 68-year-old man who was driving his car was stopped by a Russian military man walking and unarmed. He asked me to give him a ride to the unit, and then, when we set off, he suddenly said: "Kill me, I don't want to live." The old man replied that, they say, you can’t joke like that for a young and healthy guy. But the military man repeated his request several times, and then, threatening to blow them both up, pulled out a grenade and pulled out the pin. There was an explosion.

Delivered together with Isa Algiraev to the hospital, the perpetrator of the incident, after providing medical assistance, was detained by POM officers.


From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006

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