November 22, 2001

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In Grozny, local residents Islam Ruslanovich Zarmaev, born in 1985, and Akhmed Magomedovich Taramov, born in 1991, entered an empty apartment in a neighboring building. Islam felt that he had stepped on some object lying under the linoleum. Most of the teenager's life was spent surrounded by explosions and gunfire, so he guessed what it might be. Shouting to his friend: “Ahmed, move away, there’s a mine under my foot,” he grouped himself and tried to jump away. The explosion tore off both of Islam Zarmaev's legs and his left hand, and knocked out his eye. Akhmed Taramov escaped with shrapnel wounds.

It is known that during the “cleansing” operation, the Russian military spent the night in the house where the explosion occurred, and left it in the morning without warning anyone about the “surprise” left behind.

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The Russian military blocked the village of Alleroy, Kurchaloevsky district, to carry out the so-called. targeted “cleansing”. During this operation, ten local residents were detained. Over the next seven days they were kept in detention cells at the district military commandant's office. The detainees were beaten and tortured, forcing them to confess to drug trafficking and participation in the WF of the ChRI. Having failed to obtain “confessions,” everyone was released for ransom.

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In the village of Avtury, two local residents were killed - 18-year-old Ramzan Sulemanov and his peer Adam Raibekovich Orzaev. Having seen Russian military men on the street of the village, they decided to hide: both did not have passports, which could have become a serious reason for detention. The military noticed the fleeing young people and opened fire on them.

The young people submitted documents for registration of passports to the district PVS several months ago, but officials never bothered to issue them.

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In the evening, up to 40 members of the WF of ChRI drove into the village of Belorechye from the neighboring village of Bachi-Yurt. They attacked local residents collaborating with the Russian authorities and military. They beat several people, and in front of their relatives they killed the foreman of the Ilashanyurt state farm, Zainutdin Israilov. According to one version, he was dealt with because of his brother, Zivaddi Israilov, the commander of a patrol service company at the permanent department of the Gudermes police.

The attackers were wearing masks and knew their way around the village well, which indicates that among them there were at least guides from among the local residents.

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In Grozny near the so-called The military carried out a “cleansing” of residential areas in the Karpinsky Kurgan and in the microdistrict adjacent to the ChSU.

After the students and teaching staff of this educational institution staged mass protests on November 12-13 in connection with the unmotivated detention of several students, such operations in Grozny intensified and became almost daily. For a week, university studies were paralyzed. Students and teachers traveled to their classrooms on foot, as all roads in the area were blocked by armored vehicles and troops.

From the book “People Live Here”, Usam Baysaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006.