Continuation of the shelling of Yalkhoi-Mokhk, murder in Starye Atagi, kidnapping of a resident of the village of Khatuni

October 20, 2001

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The village of Yalkhoi-Mokhk was again subjected to artillery shelling. Nothing is known about the victims and destruction of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

 

October 21, 2001

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On the night of October 21 in the village. Local resident Akhmed Vakhaevich Umarov was killed in his house in Starye Atagi. He was approximately 30 years old. The crime was committed by unknown people.
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From the village of Khatuni, the Russian military took away a local resident (lived on Z. Mutalibov Street) Mukhmad Gazalievich Muskhadzhiev, born in 1957. A few days later he was released.


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

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