Shelling of the central market of Grozny, detention and beating of a resident of Roshni-Chu, shooting a car with a grenade launcher and other lawlessness

July 11, 2001


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At about nine o'clock, as a result of small-arms fire at the central market in Grozny, Umidat Magomadova, born in 1965, Khumit Bambatalieva, born in 1955, Makka Isaeva, born in 1954, and Madina Magomadova, born in 1972, were wounded. R. One of the victims died.
According to eyewitnesses, shooting was carried out from small arms from the Russian checkpoint, equipped in the line of sight from this place at the intersection of two city avenues: Pobeda and S. Ordzhonikidze. At the place where they sell food products, several grenades fired from underbarrel grenade launchers also exploded.


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During the targeted “cleansing” in the village of Roshni-Chu, Ramzan Yusupov, born in 1959, who lives in this village on Lenin Street, was detained. Before the start of the second Chechen campaign, he worked as the head of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Grozny, was awarded the highest order of the CRI "Kyoman Siy" ("Honor of the people").

He was reportedly released ten days later, possibly after a ransom was paid. He was badly beaten.


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At 10 p.m. in the village of Staraya Sunzha on Shahumyan Street, near house No. 29, the Russian military shot from a grenade launcher a car in which the husband and wife of the Bakaevs, Musa and Leyla, were located. The woman was pregnant. The couple, who were traveling home from relatives, died: two of their children, 7 and 11 years old, were left orphans


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At night, the residents of Gagarin St. in the village of Gekhi were forced to stay awake. They were afraid to turn on the light, go up to the windows, and even move around inside the premises without unnecessary need. The fact is that until dawn, employees of, presumably, the commandant's company of the Urus-Martan district, in the amount of 10 to 15 people, walked along the street. According to the villagers, they were drunk, shouting loudly and cursing, constantly shooting in different directions. Bullets flew into the courtyards of residential buildings, through the windows.

Night mobile patrols are new in the practice of conducting a "counter-terrorist operation" on the territory of Chechnya. The law enforcement officers involved in them break into houses, rob and blackmail local residents. Many murders committed at night, apparently, are also on the conscience of these patrols.

 

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

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