December 28, 2001
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In the village of Tangi-Chu, Russian military personnel carried out a “cleansing” operation. During the day the village was blocked - people without local registration and transport were not allowed through.
During the “event” six local residents were detained:
1. Sultanbek Elmurdovich Shadukaev, born in 1972 (Tsentralnaya St., 23);
2. Taus Alievich Kushaliev, born in 1968. (Tsentralnaya St., 25);
3. Ismail Adamovich Labazanov, born in 1980 (Tsentralnaya St., 23);
4. Alvi Salievich Bugaev, born in 1963 (Tsentralnaya St., 23);
5. Rizvan Akhyadovich Khuseynov, born in 1977 (Shkolnaya st., 44);
6. Supyan Seralievich Manaev, born in 1958. (Centralnaya St., 18).
Law enforcement officers conducted unauthorized searches in their homes, during which nothing prohibited for storage was found anywhere. Nevertheless, all the detainees were taken to Urus-Martan, to the building of a former boarding school, where the VOVD, FSB and the military commandant’s office of the district were located at the same time.
How the detentions took place can be judged by the example of Supyan Manaev. Russian security forces burst into his house at 7.15. They did not introduce themselves or present any documents. They threatened to demand that all the men be handed over. But, except for Supyan Manaev, there was no one in the house. Without pressing charges against him, without explaining the motives for his actions, he was taken out into the street and taken away. On the same day it became known that he was taken to the VOVD of the Urus-Martan district. The detainee is the father of five minor children and the only son of his mother.
Upon his detention, his relatives contacted the authorities of the Urus-Martan district. By 15.00 on the same day, he and three other people taken from Tangi-Chu (Rizvan Khuseynov, Taus Kushaliev and Ismail Labazanov) were released without any charges. Sultanbek Shadukaev and Alvi Bugaev were not released. They were kept in the VOVD building for more than two weeks without serious charges being brought against them. According to Alvi Bugaev’s mother, Zura Shamsudinova, their son was taken away at dawn, promising to be released after a computer check. A search was carried out in the house, during which all residents were forced to stand at gunpoint. When leaving, law enforcement officers stole a Zhiguli car that belonged to the family. It is interesting that before the search, law enforcement officers who arrived in armored personnel carriers and UAZ vehicles presented a sanction issued by the prosecutor's office. This was rather an exception to the rule in such a situation.
Alvi Bugaev was accused of hooliganism. The prosecutor (a certain Kravchenko), who promised Zura Shamsudinova that he would release his son if the facts of his guilt were not revealed, was very surprised when he learned that he, along with Sultanbek Shadukaev, was still in the VOVD. On January 11 or 12, 2002, he promised to help the woman and went into the boarding school building. Subsequently, Sultanbek Shadukaev said that this prosecutor scolded the police officers who were holding them. On the same day, both were released, having to sign a release document. Alvi Bugaev was allowed to take away his car. His wife went with him. He stopped the car at his sister's house, and his wife went to open the gate. At this time, a white Zhiguli, which was driving from the VOVD, stopped nearby. Armed masked men got out of the car and began shooting at Alvi Bugaev at close range. His wife and sister witnessed the murder. Neighbors and numerous passers-by watched what was happening. A total of eight shots were fired at the dead man, all in the heart area. In addition to gunshot wounds, signs of torture were also found on Alvi Bugaev’s body.
The relatives of the murdered man immediately contacted the prosecutor's office of the Urus Martanovsky district. An operational investigation team worked at the scene of the murder. Criminal case No. 61000 (“Murder”) was opened on the fact of the murder. However, the investigation very soon slowed down, but the relatives did not give up. They corresponded with the prosecutor's office for a long time, trying to achieve an objective investigation of the crime and punishment of the killers.
As of mid-July 2007, criminal case No. 61000 was resumed. At that time, the relatives of the murdered Alvi Bugaev did not go to court against the inaction of the prosecutor's office. They also did not file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.
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Approximately 1.5 km from the Rostov-Baku highway leading to the village of Gekhi, military personnel set up a mobile post using a KamAZ truck. They stopped passing vehicles for inspection. From the direction of the village of Gekhi, a Zhiguli drove up to the post, before reaching the military, and stopped. The military signaled for the car to come closer and fired warning shots. Three people who were in the car ran out of it and tried to escape. Killing fire was opened on them. As a result, two of them were killed on the spot. The third, a taxi driver, the owner of the car, disappeared. The corpses of the dead were identified. These were residents of the village of Gekhi Sh. Abubakarov, 22 years old, and V. Benoev. It was possible to establish the identity of the missing person - Bislan Abunzidovich Magomadov, also a resident of the village of Gekhi. On January 1, 2002, his booby-trapped corpse was discovered southeast of the village of Gekhi.
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In the afternoon, in the village of Pobedinskoye, armed Chechens, presumably from Movladi Baysarov’s detachment or Chechen police officers, took away two Ural-375 vehicles (turbo locomotives) belonging to the Staropromyslovsky Department of Technological Transport. The drivers were taken out of their cars and released after a while. The confiscated cars could not be found. Rosneft management blamed the drivers for this incident and fired them from their jobs.
From the book “People Live Here”, Usam Baysaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006.
