October 8, 2001

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On the night of October 8, in the village of Starye Atagi on Nuradilov Street, the deputy head of the village administration, 40-year-old Ruslan Dzhumaev, was shot by masked unknown people in the courtyard of his house. At the same time, in front of his family, his cousin, 48-year-old Mokhmad-Husein Dzhumaev, who was engaged in private transportation, was also killed. An accidental witness to the crime, Vakhid Tsamaev, 55 years old, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a retired major, also died.

After the end of the “cleansing” in Starye Atagi, which lasted from September 27 to October 6, the military demanded that Ruslan Dzhumaev sign a document stating that the operation was carried out without violations of the law and there were no complaints from the administration and residents of the settlement. But he refused to do this. In addition, on October 7, at a rally in the village of Prigorodnoye, gathered to protest against the murder of 11-year-old Muslim Bisultanov, Ruslan sharply criticized the actions of Russian security forces in Chechnya.

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At approximately 10 o'clock in the village of Chiri-Yurt, Arbi Soslambekov, born in 1977, was kidnapped and subsequently disappeared without a trace. (lived at the address: Cement Plant village, 15, apt. 1). A few days later, the Russian military also took away his brother, Anzor Soslambekov, born in 1981, but his mother managed to free him for two machine guns.
Anzor Soslambekov had to go through severe trials. They forced needles under his fingernails, subjected him to electric shocks, and beat him. After his release, he received treatment for a long time.

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In the evening, the Russian command pulled up troops to the village of Alkhazurovo. By the morning of the next day, the village was blocked along the perimeter, after which another “cleansing operation” began. On the northwestern outskirts of the settlement, on the territory of a destroyed livestock farm of the Trud state farm, the military stationed the AFP. A lot of equipment and military personnel were concentrated here, and the headquarters of the forces involved in this “cleansing” was located. According to the testimony of local residents, the military commandant of the Urus-Martan district, Major General Geidar Gadzhiev, the head of the regional department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic and, according to some sources, Major General Anton Surikov were also there.

The military drove men from all over Alkhazurovo to the farm territory. They were forced to squat for hours with their hands behind their heads, not allowed to get up to at least stretch their legs. For any movement they struck with the butt of a machine gun. The guards mocked the detainees with a sophisticated imagination. On a dare, they tried to hit one of the civilians in the head with stones. Insulted. When they wanted the detainee to turn to them, they said: “Show your face, chichik.” All detainees underwent a fingerprint examination and each was interrogated. They asked, for example, where Aslan Maskhadov or Ruslan Gelayev were, but at the same time they were “interested” in the whereabouts of Arbi Barayev, who was killed back in the summer. During interrogations, people were beaten and tortured with electric shocks. For this, a manual high voltage generator was used. The wires from it were connected to the person, after which the military turned the handle. Sometimes the detainees themselves were forced to spin it. Some men were kept at the filtration point for several days. According to the people who remained in the village, at night the screams of those being tortured could be heard from there.

On October 9 and 10, a mobile group of Russian military personnel located near Alkhazurovo made arrests in the nearby settlements of Goyskoye and Goy-Chu (Komsomolskoye). One person was detained in Goisky, and four were detained in Goi-Chu. They were also taken to the filtration point and beaten.

The military commandant of the Urus-Martan district, Major General Heydar Gadzhiev, personally participated in the beatings of people. There are several known facts of his rough treatment of women. In the courtyard of Minga Shame adova’s house (27 Mirzoeva St.), he hit Natalya Akhmadova in the face.

The most egregious incident occurred on the last day of the “cleansing” operation. On the afternoon of October 11, a large group of village residents gathered at the VFTU. In response to their demand to stop the bullying and release the detainees, Heydar Hajiyev began shouting and swearing. Then, in front of a large number of people, he began to beat Raisa Murtazalieva from Goi-Chu, whose husband had been captured by the military. The woman was four months pregnant. She suffered a miscarriage from a kick in the stomach. The incident was reported to the prosecutor's office of the Urus-Martan district. Residents of Alkhazurovo also sent a complaint to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
After the “cleansing” was completed, the military did not release three residents of Alkhazurovo. One of them was taken to the city of Urus-Martan. On October 15, from the third floor of the commandant’s office building, through the embrasure of a window blocked with sandbags, he managed to call out to his relatives standing at the gate. He asked to bring him a food parcel.

Two more people disappeared. Their names: Khasolt Khizirovich Sugaipov, born in 1950, and Salamu Salmanovich Shalaev, born in 1977.

Khasolt Sugaipov lived in the village at the address: Gvardeyskaya St., 21/a. On the morning of December 9, military personnel arrived at his house in an infantry fighting vehicle and a UAZ-452 (“tablet”) without side or registration numbers. Some hid their faces under masks. They did not present any documents, so it is impossible to say exactly which of the security forces they belonged to. However, there is no doubt that the federal forces were not wearing masks. They entered the yard and asked Khasolt Sugaipov. His wife, Toat Sugaipova, said he was in the house. At that moment he himself came out. One of the soldiers asked him in surprise: “Are you Khasolt?” Together they stepped aside and talked for about five minutes. After this, a search began in the house. Nothing illegal was found. However, the military said that they were taking the owner of the house “for a conversation” and took both of them away. According to fellow villagers - towards Urus-Martan.

Khasolt Sugaipov was tall (186 cm) and gray-haired. Special features could be considered a scar after an operation to remove appendicitis and a broken finger on his left hand. On his lower jaw he had four gold teeth, on his upper jaw he also had artificial teeth, but pollinated to look like gold. According to his relatives, he did not participate in hostilities.

Even earlier, Salamu Shalaev was taken away and subsequently also disappeared. He lived at the address: Voroshilov St., 25. Late in the evening of October 8, he went to see his relative Ramzan Shalaev, who lived next door. The men prayed and talked when the Russian military came in and said they were detaining them both. The reasons for the detention were not explained. “Dress warmly. We are not taking you to a warm place,” that’s all that Salama Shalaev heard. He and his relative were taken to a filtration point. There they were led to a man in a mask and illuminated with a flashlight. When the beam stopped on Ramzan Shalaev’s face, he heard the question: “This one?” A negative answer followed. A military man standing nearby reassured him: “Then don’t worry. You will leave in the morning." Ramzan Shalaev spent the rest of the night in the armored personnel carrier, and in the morning he was actually released. He does not know what happened to his relative.

In total, at least ten people were taken to the former farm that night. They were all interrogated and beaten. Torture was also used, in particular electric shock. From the words of the released people, it is known that Salama Shalaev was also subjected to electric shock. His characteristics: height 175 cm, red hair, scars on his left hand, two upper teeth are gold. According to family members, he did not take part in the hostilities.

Subsequently, General Surikov reported that Salamu Shalaev and Khasolt Sugaipov were allegedly released at about 17:00 on October 10. However, they did not return home. As of the end of 2006, their whereabouts remained unclear.

In search of missing people, relatives contacted the internal affairs bodies and the FSB. The Chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oleg Orlov sent a request to the prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Vsevolod Chernov with a request to inform whether the prosecutor's office employees have information about what happened, whether any charges have been brought against the detainees, who is conducting the investigation and what its results are. It is known that a criminal case was initiated into the kidnapping of Salamu Shalaev and Khasolt Sugaipov. However, his relatives do not know his number. “Due to the impossibility of identifying the persons involved in the crime” (clause 3 of Article 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR), the case was suspended.

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A resident of the village of Alkhan-Yurt contacted the representative office of the Memorial Human Rights Center in Urus-Martan. She said that her husband, Zelmakh Tapaevich Magomadov, born in 1972. (according to other sources - born in 1973), who lived with her at the address: 60 Let Oktyabrya Street, 43, went missing after being detained by federal law enforcement officers. This happened in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt under the following circumstances.
Early in the morning of April 25, 2000, Russian military personnel arrived in Tsotsin-Yurt in armored personnel carriers and cars. Leaving the equipment, they walked through the gardens to a house located two streets away, cordoned it off and broke into the premises. In addition to the owner Aslambek Ayubov, Zelmakh Magomadov and his fellow villager Salman Saidulaev were inside. All three were taken away in an unknown direction.

That same morning, two more villagers were detained. Three days later, the military threw them out on the outskirts of the village. As it turned out, they were kept in pits at the location of some military unit. It is not known exactly where this unit was located, but those released assumed that it was in Khankala. Both were badly beaten. One of them soon died from the beatings he received.

It was not possible to find out anything about the further fate of Zelmakh Magomadov. Law enforcement agencies and military units, where relatives went in search of him, invariably declared that their employees were not involved in his abduction. Through an intermediary, however, it was possible to find out that the people taken from Tsotsin-Yurt were nevertheless delivered to Khankala. Zelmakh Magomadov was there until May 9, 2000, but then his traces were lost. What happened to him is unknown. As of October 8, 2001, he was considered missing.

Relatives also contacted V. Kalamanov's Bureau with a request for assistance in finding him.

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Ali (Sultan) Idigov, born in 1976, was taken away from the village of Tsotsin-Yurt by unknown persons. On the street next to his yard, he was repairing a motorcycle. Then, getting ready to start it up, he rolled it onto the dam. At this time, unknown persons drove up to him in a passenger car, put Ali Idigov in the passenger compartment of their car and drove away.
Later, Idigov’s corpse was dug up near a military unit stationed on the outskirts of the village of Belorechye (the territory of a former agricultural brigade). The military did not allow anyone near this place for a long time, claiming that there was a risk of being blown up by a mine. And when they allowed it, the remains were found there, apparently of people they had killed. The corpse of Ali Idigov was first buried in the village of Belorechye, and then transported to the cemetery in his native village. It is unknown who committed this kidnapping and murder.

Under unclear circumstances, his brother Usman Idigov disappeared. Local residents said that he received money from members of the WF of ChRI to buy weapons. His disappearance is connected precisely with this circumstance. Later, the Idigovs’ mother Zulay and sister Medni were killed. The murder was committed at night, and the house with the dead was burned.

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