November 8, 2001

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On the night of November 8, six families were robbed in the village of Mayrtup. The criminals arrived in the village in several ZhZ-452 (“tabletka”) cars. Everyone was dressed in camouflage uniforms. Bursting into the houses of civilians, they demanded gold and money in pure Russian. That evening there was no light in the village for unknown reasons, and this played into the hands of the robbers.

On November 9, after Friday prayers, village residents, outraged by the robbery attacks that occurred twice in a row, gathered for a gathering. It was decided to create a detachment to protect civilians at night.

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On the night of November 8, the regional center of Kurchaloy came under fire. The fire came from the territory of the commandant's office located directly in the village. Nothing is known about the victims and destruction of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

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On the night of November 8, several illumination shells were fired over the village of Geldagan. The ingots remaining after their combustion fell on residential buildings. As a result, the houses of Ibragim Bersanukaev and Akhmatgiri Visarkhanov were seriously damaged. In one of them, the blank not only pierced the slate on the roof, but also, passing through the ceiling, broke the sofa in the room.

According to local residents, the shells were launched by Russian military personnel involved in the “cleansing” of neighboring Tsotsin-Yurt.

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At 4 o'clock in the morning in the city of Urus-Martan, unknown employees of Russian security forces took Bekhan Vakhaevich Alautdinov, born in 1976, from house 30 on Proletarskaya Street. Before that, they searched the residential premises. During the search, an attempted robbery was made. However, one of the arrivals, apparently the eldest, hit the other, forcing him to put down the things he had taken from the room. The unknown people also wanted to detain the other son of the Alautdinovs, Aslambek, judging by the conversations, confusing him with some famous militant. But when it turned out that this was the wrong person, they released him. His mother Lipa tried to prevent the kidnapping of Bekhan Alautdinov. She rushed to the car into which her son was being pushed, but she was thrown aside, and then a burst of machine gun fire was fired at her feet. The woman fell and lost consciousness. On the same day, an armed man in camouflage uniform arrived at her house. Having given away the personal belongings of the taken away young man, he ordered not to tell anyone about what had happened.

Aslambek Alautdinov told the staff of the Memorial Human Rights Center about what happened in their house:

“On the night of November 8, there was a knock on our house. They said: “Open up, night police.” We asked to wait until we got dressed. Then my brother and I were taken out into the yard and asked for our last name. We called. Then one of them asked me: “Are you Aslambek the bearded one?” I said no. One of the military men confirmed my words, saying: “No, it’s not him.” They handed their brother’s passport to someone over the fence.

One of the military men came up to me and asked why I was detained. I said I don't know. Then he told me: “Get on your knees!” I said I was sick. (Aslambek Alautdinov has had asthma since childhood). The brother was taken back into the house. They conducted a search, looting at the same time. Then the mother told the eldest of them that the military was taking things away. He hit one of the robbers and forced him to lay out what he had taken.

When they began to take my brother away, the mother rushed to the car. They pushed her into the pit and gave her a burst of machine gun fire to make her fall behind. The mother felt bad and lost consciousness. About 15 minutes after the cars left, shots were heard. In the morning we learned that three people were killed that night.”​

The relatives tried to find the kidnapped person, contacted the law enforcement agencies of the region - the police department, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic, the military commandant's office, where they denied the fact of their involvement in the incident. They wrote and submitted statements to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, to the Bureau of V. Kalamanov, as well as to the military commandant S. Kizyun, the Chairman of the Government S. Ilyasov and the head of the administration of the republic A. Kadyrov. It was not possible to establish the whereabouts of Bekkhan Alautdinov.
The kidnappers were in uniform, some wearing masks. They didn't show any documents. Profits from Ural, UAZ-452 (“tabletka”) and Niva vehicles, the registration plates of which were not installed. Their ethnicity was Russian, they also spoke Russian. During the abduction, they used illegal methods, insulted the abducted person and his family members, and beat them.

Bekhan Alautdinov was of average height and had scars from a gunshot wound on his left shin. According to relatives, he did not participate in hostilities in either the first or second war. On December 12, 2001, on the fact of his abduction (Article 126, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the prosecutor’s office of the Urus-Martan district opened criminal case No. 25157. But already on February 12, 2002, the case was suspended “due to the impossibility of identifying the persons involved in crime" (clause 3 of article 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR). However, prosecutors at various levels had inconsistencies with the number of the criminal case and the time of its initiation. Thus, in response No. 313 dated February 25, 2002, sent to the request of the Memorial Human Rights Center No. 42/02 dated January 12, 2002, acting. Prosecutor of the Urus-Martan district A. Kudryavtsev reported that “on the fact of the abduction of Mr. Alautdinov B.V. from his home in the city of Urus-Martan. criminal case No. 62015 dated February 1, 2001 was initiated.” Those. it turns out - almost a year before the crime itself was committed. The response to another request from the Human Rights Center “Memorial” was just as strange - No. 146 dated May 24, 2002. Letter No. 18/39-95-02, signed on June 3, 2002 by the First Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic V. Chernyaev, states that “on the fact of the abduction of Bekhan Vakhaevich Alautdinov, the prosecutor’s office of the Urus-Martan district on December 10, 2001 opened criminal case No. 25257 under Article 126 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (kidnapping).” Such replies could indicate only one thing: law enforcement agencies, and in particular the prosecutor’s office, are not interested in investigating the crime. This was evidenced by the refusal received at the request of the mother of the abducted person, Lipa Alautdinova, to familiarize herself with the materials of the criminal case. With the support of a lawyer from the Memorial Human Rights Center, she filed a complaint with the court about the inaction of the prosecutor's office, but they refused to satisfy her complaint.

On August 5, 2005, the woman appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. On April 23, 2009, a decision was made in the case of Alautdinova v. Russia. The interests of the applicant were represented by the Human Rights Center “Memorial” (Moscow) and the European Center for the Defense of Human Rights (ENCAS, London). In this 104th case in Chechnya, the ECtHR ruled that the Russian state was responsible for a violation of Art. 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding the deprivation of Bekkhan Alautdinov’s life and the failure to conduct an effective investigation into his death. Article 3 (prohibition of torture and cruel and inhuman treatment) was also violated in relation to the moral suffering of Lipa Alautdinova in connection with the disappearance of her son and the lack of an effective investigation. Article 5 (the right to freedom and personal integrity) was violated in relation to the illegal detention of Bekhan Alautdinov. The European Court also ruled that in connection with the violation of the right to life of Bekkhan Alautdinov, Russia violated Article 13 of the European Convention, which guarantees the right to an effective remedy. The court ordered Russia to pay Lipa Alautdinova compensation in the amount of 35,000 euros.

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On the night of November 8, in the city of Urus-Martan, employees of Russian security forces tried to detain Beslan Nurdievich Zakriev, born in 1977, a local resident, who was wanted for participation in the WF of the ChRI. Having, apparently, information about his whereabouts, they cordoned off the Musaevs’ household at the address: Kalinina St., 48 (according to other sources, 92). However, they were unable to enter there immediately due to the resistance provided. Opening fire, Beslan Zakriev killed one and wounded three Russian security officials. Then he tried to escape. He failed to leave. During the ensuing shootout, the young man was fatally wounded. Angered by the death of their comrade, Russian security forces captured the sons of the owner of the house, Khozh-Akhmed Ruslanovich Musaev, born in 1971, and Khozh-Bauddi Ruslanovich Musaev, born in 1979. (according to other sources, one is called Khavazh, and the other is Khavazh-Baudi, both born in 1977), and they took him away. On the morning of November 10, their corpses were handed over to relatives from the VOVD of the Urus-Martan district. The bodies showed no signs of gunshot wounds or puncture wounds. Both died from severe beatings and, apparently, torture. However, the media, citing the VOVD, reported that the brothers died as a result of a shootout. Relatives categorically deny this information, insisting that Khozh-Akhmed and Khozh-Bauddi Musayev were taken alive from their home and only then killed.

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At about 18:00 the village of Khidi-Khutor came under fire from tank guns; 13-year-old Lechi Ismailov was wounded. The boy was seriously wounded in the head, leg and arm by shell fragments.

A “cleansing” operation was carried out in the locality; the so-called curfew, so the parents were able to take the boy out of the village only the next morning. He was taken to the Disaster Medicine children's hospital in Gudermes and placed in intensive care in extremely serious condition.

During the shelling, significant damage was caused to the property of the village residents. For example, the Tepsurkaevs had a cow and a buffalo killed, nine heads of cattle were killed in the Bazurkaevs' yard, the Paizulaevs had four cows killed, and their house was seriously damaged.

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