July 5, 2001

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In the village of Roshni-Chu, on the eve of the blockade from all sides by armored vehicles and troops, a "cleansing operation" began. Employees of Russian and republican law enforcement agencies took part in it. During this operation, more than four hundred people were detained. They were taken to the field in armored personnel carriers and Ural vehicles and kept for five or six hours in silo pits located between this settlement and the neighboring village of Tangi-Chu.

Pulling them up one by one, they were interrogated and beaten. Then most of them were released, having issued certificates with the seal of the passport and visa service, which indicated that they allegedly passed the check. However, the military held several people the longest:

1. Supyan Dzhanchuraeva, 37 years old, the father of four children was taken away for a Kazakh registration in the passport. According to relatives, he treated politics with indifference and did not take part in hostilities. He lived in his village and did housework. To the advice to leave, he answered: “There should be no complaints against me.”

During his arrest at dawn on July 5, he was severely beaten. Relatives and neighbors testify that the military pulled him out of the house into the yard, threw him to the ground and began kicking him. Then they pushed me into an armored personnel carrier without tail numbers and drove away.

Supyan Dzhanchuraev was brought home a week later. As it became known from his words, he spent two days in a silo pit. On the third day he was dragged upstairs and left to lie under the bushes until evening. Then they were taken to the district center in the building of the former boarding school, where the VOVD and the commandant's office are stationed. There he spent a few more days. On July 11, having sealed his mouth with tape, pulled a bag over his head and handcuffed his hands behind his back, the military took him to the so-called. the Chernorechensky forest near the city of Grozny was thrown out there. Focusing on the noise of cars, he got out onto the road. He was picked up and brought home by random passing locals.

Doctors discovered that Supyan Dzhanchuraev had fractures of four ribs and a nose, his kidneys were broken off. As early as July 6, his wife turned to the commandant of the Urus-Martan district, Geidar Hajiyev, and prosecutor Leonid Ilyushenko. The last of them sent a written reply, which stated that her husband was not detained by law enforcement agencies and he was not detained either in the commandant's office or in the VOVD. But it was already after he was discovered and brought home.

2. Vahu Denisultanov, born in 1972, living in the village of Roshni-Chu on Zarechnaya street. On July 5, he successfully passed the passport control check and even received a certificate about it. But the next day, he witnessed how the Russian military loaded things from the house of their neighbors, the Shakhmurzaevs. For trying to stop the robbery, he was detained and taken away. When they were being taken away, the military burned his passport and a certificate of “successful” passing of the check, issued by themselves, noting that he would no longer need any documents.

Vakha Denisultanov was taken to the forest, hung by his feet to a tree and tortured with electric current. Pliers pulled out his gold crowns and front teeth. According to the victim, in the hands of the military were two beekeepers from the village of Goity, who were subjected to the same beatings and torture as he himself.

Relatives tried to organize a search for the detainee, but to no avail. On July 10, the military themselves brought him to the outskirts of the village and left him there. Vakha Denisultanov was beaten beyond recognition. For two weeks he was in the Urus-Martan hospital. At the end of the treatment, the doctors refused to give him a certificate of beatings.

3-4. Magomed Shidayev, who was taken away due to the lack of a local residence permit, and Seid-Emin Mavkuev, who dared to turn away the weapon pointed at him and was detained for “resisting the military”, were kept in the VOVD of the Urus-Martan District for ten days. There they were tortured and beaten.

Detentions in Roshni-Chu were indiscriminate. In particular, the military took Ruslan Tamaev, a close relative of the investigator for especially important cases of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, to the silo pits. There were no grounds for his detention. According to fellow villagers, this man has never participated in hostilities.

During the “cleansing” of Roshni-Chu, households were robbed and blown up (for example, the Gairbekovs, single mother Dataeva), in which the owners were absent for some reason.

From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006