November 28, 2001

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In the Leninsky district of Grozny, the Russian military carried out another operation to check the passport regime, i.e. "cleansing". And again with the same violations as the day before. For example, they broke open the doors of apartments in which the owners were absent. There were quite a few of them, because by nine in the morning people were already leaving for work.

On Lermontov Street, the military robbed several houses, whose owners left the republic due to the war.

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At 6.15 in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, up to 20 military men (some were wearing masks) broke into a house on Dekabristov Street and forcibly took Said-Magomed Usmanovich Kadyrov, born in 1966, from there. His wife tried to prevent the kidnapping, telling the military that her husband had recently undergone stomach surgery. But she was ordered not to move, threatening to be shot. Having pulled a cap over his head, Kadyrov was taken out into the street, put into one of the two UAZs in which they arrived, and taken away in an unknown direction.

Three days later, Said-Magomed Kadyrov was released. He said that he was kept in the Oktyabrsky District VOVD, but refused to provide other details. In early 2006, he died of illness.

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At 7.45 in Gudermes, a controlled landmine was detonated along the route of St. Petersburg riot police officers.

Two riot policemen, who went on duty on foot, received injuries of varying degrees of severity and survived. Two others have died. Residential buildings in the vicinity were damaged and windows were broken. There were no killed or wounded among the civilian population.

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