May 21, 2001

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The Russian military captured the shepherds: Avala Dakaev, born in 1941, and his 27-year-old son Musa Avaluevich Dakaev, who lived at 3 Rostovskaya Street in the village of Goity, Urus-Martan District. In the morning, having received payment for their work from the inhabitants, they drove the herd to the pasture. Closer to dinner, military men drove up to them in two Ural and KamAZ vehicles. The same vehicles, according to eyewitnesses, were seen in the vicinity of the village a day earlier, and on the night of May 21, the military, who arrived in vehicles of these brands, fired at the inhabitants of the village of Michurin, located 1.5–2 kilometers from the village of Goity.

After spending some time next to the herd, "Ural" and KamAZ drove towards the village of Goiskoye, Urus-Martan district. Local residents, worried about the fate of the shepherds, ran to the pasture. However, neither the father nor the son of the Dakaevs were there. Considering that the military had taken them away with them, they reported the incident to the head of the administration of the settlement and representatives of the district authorities.

It was not possible to establish the whereabouts of the abducted people in hot pursuit. The search continued for another three weeks, until the mutilated and covered with branches corpses of shepherds were found in a ditch near the place of their disappearance. Musa Dakaev was shot in the forehead, the back of his skull was missing. The Russian military cut off the head of Avale Dakaev. Both were killed, probably on May 21, that is, immediately after the arrest.

Documents, as well as 7,000 rubles collected for grazing, were gone. Several cows have disappeared from the herd. Immediately after the discovery of the bodies, law enforcement agencies and the administrative authorities of the district were informed about this. The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case into the murder.

Musa Dakaev was married and had three children, the eldest of whom was six years old, and the youngest three years old. Neither he nor his father were members of the CRI armed formations.

According to local residents, servicemen of the 205th separate motorized rifle brigade stationed between the settlements of Alkhazurovo and Lakha-Varanda could have been involved in the murder of these people. It was them who were noticed more than once in those days and in the vicinity of the village of Goity.

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On the square "Minute" in Grozny were fired from automatic weapons and Lema and Aminat Isaev were wounded. They were returning from Gudermes. The Russian military, who were on duty at the checkpoint, checked their documents and let them through. Then suddenly they began to shoot after him, wounding the man in the shoulder and his companion in the leg.

According to eyewitnesses, the military wounded another woman. Her name and place of residence of Memorial Human Rights Center are unknown.

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