June 4, 2001
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Salamu Akhmadov, born in 1969, died in the center of Grozny as a result of a mine explosion. Together with his partners, he dismantled the ruins of a residential building into bricks. Salamu Akhmadov was a native of the village of Starye Atagi, Grozny region. The next day he was buried in the cemetery of this settlement.
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In the morning in the city of Grozny, while trying to fix a cross erected by the Russian military in memory of their dead colleagues, Shamkhan Nasrudinovich Saaev, born in 1966, a father of three children, was blown up by a mine and died. The cross was erected on the street. March 8 in the Oktyabrsky district near the apartment building where the deceased lived with his family.
Shamkhan Saaev was blown off both legs by the explosion, and there were wounds incompatible with life on the lower part of his torso. He died in city hospital No. 9, where he was promptly taken by neighbors. Relatives reported that the military threatened Saaev to blow up the house if anything happened to the cross. Noticing that during the night he tilted a little, he went to correct him, but stepped on a mine set next to him. Members of his family became eyewitnesses of the explosion.
The deceased was buried in the cemetery of the village of Starye Atagi, Grozny region, of which he was also a native.
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At about 2 am, four Russian servicemen in masks kicked in the door and burst into house 24 on Telmana street in the town of Argun. Frightened by the noise of breaking down doors, people jumped out of bed. The servicemen immediately pointed their machine guns at them. The son of the owner of the house, Khasan Abuevich Guluev, born in 1965, reached for his passport lying on the table. Not allowing him to take the document, he was dragged into the yard. An elderly mother tried to intervene in what was happening. However, the answer to her question “Where are you taking your son?” shots from automatic weapons sounded from the yard.
After the shooting subsided, the mother and wife of the man taken away by the servicemen decided to go out into the yard. They heard weak groans and found Khasan Guluyev near the outbuilding where firewood was piled. He was shot in the head and chest, and had multiple gunshot wounds on his limbs. Half an hour later he died.
The funeral of Khasan Guluyev took place on June 5. Three young children were left orphans:
Aina, born in 1992, Khamzat, born in 1994, and Zarema, born in 1996 The youngest daughter of the victim is a disabled child.
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During the “cleansing” of the city of Argun, from January 3 to 7, 2002, Khasan Guluev’s cousin, Magomed Soltaevich Guluev, born in 1977, was detained in his house at 25 Telmana St., with a passport in his hands. The Russian military told his relatives that they would “check and release” him. But at the end of the “special operation”, his body with a gunshot wound and traces of bullying (the face and body of the dead man were black from beatings) was found in a quarry on the outskirts of the city, where a temporary “filter station” was located. According to Art. 195 part 3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR criminal cases on September 11 of the same year were suspended.
During the “cleansing” in the city of Argun, two local residents were taken away in an unknown direction. Up to 30 Russian servicemen in camouflage uniforms and masks burst into the Galuchaevs' house at 19 Lenina Street. First, they took money and the most valuable things, including women's gold jewelry, hygiene items, bed linen, blankets, etc. All the loot was loaded into a military vehicle covered with an awning, which was fitted close to the doors.
Then the servicemen took Aslambek Abdulbekovich Galuchaev, born in 1975, out of the house, put a bag over his head and, handcuffing his hands, put him in an armored personnel carrier with hull numbers smeared over.
Approximately this is how events unfolded in house 6 on Lenin street, from where Shamkhan Ibragimovich Pashuev, born in 1980, was taken away on the same day. According to eyewitnesses, after the arrests, the Russian servicemen drove away in armored personnel carriers in the direction of their base of Russian troops in Chechnya, Khankala, located 13 kilometers from Argun.
On June 8, local residents found two corpses with broken heads at the treatment facilities near the village of Dzhalka in the Gudermes region. The bodies also had stab wounds. The corpses were very swollen in the heat, and therefore it was almost impossible to identify them by external signs.
However, according to some details, in particular the color of their hair, the relatives considered that they could be Aslambek Galuchaev and Shamkhan Pashuev, and buried them on the same day. But later they doubted: only four days had passed since the detention and possible murder of these people, and the corpses could hardly have decomposed to such an extent.
At the insistence of relatives and in accordance with Art. 126 part 2, paragraphs “a”, “d” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation On July 11, the Argun inter-district prosecutor's office opened two criminal cases: No. 45077 and No. 45078 on the fact of the abduction of Aslambek Galuchaev and Shamkhan Pashuev.
The sewage treatment plant near Dzhalka was an unauthorized dump where the Russian military dumped the bodies of the Chechen residents they had killed. According to available information, on June 4, in addition to these two people, five more local residents were taken away from Argun. Their names, as well as what happened to them later, is not known to HRC Memorial.
From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006
