TITLE: Memorial: Chronicle of Crime- Part II

PART 1

AUTHOR\ PUB:

DATE: December 2000

At 3.15 AM, four members from an unknown Russian unit dressed in camouflaged uniforms and armed with assault rifles and pistols entered house #2 on Kuibishev street of Urus-Mart. They entered a room where Valid Vahidovich Magomadov, born in 1980, was sleeping, and, turning on the light, demanded that he follow them. They told his wife to "lie down or we will shoot you". V.Magomadov asked the military men to let him put on at least a t-shirt. They told him he will not need it anymore.Catching a moment, V Magomadov called his grandmother, Zina Dudaev, who was in the next room, and told her that he was being taken away. Along with her into the corridor came Aiza, her daughter-in-law. Aiza started to ask the servicemen to leave the young man alone, "Quiet, quiet, we will check the documents and leave" they assured the women. Both women later heard how the servicemen were persuading V.Magomadov to tell them about something. At this time, Aslan Dudaev, husband of Aiza, entered into the corridor. Without giving him a chance to explain anything, the military men detained him along with V.Magomadov. They pushed back the women who attempted to interfere and leaned a fridge against the door (of the room they were in). Slightly later the women heard sound of breaking glass, shots and screams of dying men. When it became possible to open the door into the corridor, they were met by a terrible scene: pools of blood on the floor and the bodies of Valid Magomadov and Aslan Dudaev. Both were dead. Running outdoors, Aiza saw the killers leaving towards road from Urus- Martan towards village of Gehi. Hearing the sounds of gunfire, a neighbor of Dudaev's, Aiza Elbiev, came out onto the street. Turning around, the Russians opened fire at both of them. This time fortunately they missed. The next day, on 17th of December, servicemen again came to Dudaevs. This happened during the day, during the funeral of the people they murdered. They ordered young people present to stand against a wall. Orders were shouted intermixed with swearing and insults. Servicemen searched the young people and then left on a BTR. 16 December At 7pm, in his own home in Urus-Martan, Akhmed, born in 1954, the only son of 96 year old Chichag Alaudinovoi, was killed. Sitting next to his mother and his aunt on his father Zheri's side, A.Alaudinov was translating for them into Chechen language news from the TV set. When they heard the noise of the door opening they saw a man in a police uniform with a mask on his face. The man immediately fired at Akhmed Alaudinov as he attempted to rise. Later the man fired five more rounds at Akhmed. It later turned out that most of the shots hit Akhmed in the heart. Frozen with fear, the old women looked at the killer, expecting him to fire at them. He fired a last time into the floor between them. After that he comely left the room. Leaving the yard he ran to a car waiting for him in the street. Neighbors of Alaudinovs heard how the killer was swearing in Russian while running towards the car. He and his accomplices very quickly left the crime scene. Relatives of the murder victim believe that the crime involved Russian special services, whose actions often led to deaths of people. They think the killer was a professional. Shooting into A. Alaudinov, already falling from the first shot, the killer was able to "place " all five bullets into the same point. According to neighbors, the sounds of the shots were quiet. This means the shots came from a silenced weapon. Also, after darkness people in Urus-Martan are afraid to come out into the street, while driving a car can only be done at risk to one's life because the military strictly enforces the curfew. The killer's car had no problem driving up to the house of A. Alaudinov. Even though the road to it, and the house itself, are easily seen from the roof of the post-office, where there are positioned Russian snipers. 18 December At 2 PM Russian servicemen, arriving near the central bazaar of Grozny from the direction of "House of Fashions" (store) on Ural trucks and BTRs and seized about 40 men of different ages. As it later turned out they were taken to military police headquarters of Zavodskii area of the city. On the territory of the headquarters the detained men were "sorted", and younger ones were beaten. In beatings participated members of St.Petersburg OMON, "famous" for mass killings of civilians in village Novie-Aldi in February of this year. A Chechen woman, an employee of the headquarters, asked the officers to stop lawlessness perpetrated by their subordinates. Only after personal intervention of the commander the beating of innocent people stopped. Before obeying the order of their superior , OMON personnel threatened that they will do everything possible to make Chechens remember the day of Muslim holiday coming at the end of December. Towards the evening some of the detained were released. They said that servicemen tried to make them admit participation in an earlier attack on the city hall. 18 December Around 4 PM young people standing at the intersection of Andreev street and Kirov street in Urus-Martan were approached by Russian servicemen in three UAZ jeeps with dirt-covered license-plates. Pointing weapons and without explaining anything, they forced the young men to lie on the ground. The servicemen then searched them and checked the men's documents. The documents turned out to be in order. Nevertheless the servicemen, using kicks and rifle butts, forced the young men into the cars and took them away: 1. Magomed Alievich Sagaev, born 1976; 2. Tagir Nuradievich Yasaev, born 1980; 3. Rizvan Imranovich Ibragimov, born 1979; 4. Hasambek Alievich Timhaev, born 1980; 5. Aslan Musaevich Dundaev, born 1976; All of them live on Kirov street. Relatives and neighbors of the detained who had gathered at the intersection were unable to resist their removal. The only thing they were able to do was to quickly inform the regional administration, which assured them that nothing bad would happen, and that detainees would be returned home. People were also able to follow the servicemen. It turned out that they proceeded towards the village Tangi-Chu, towards the location site of the infamous 245th motorized infantry regiment. As it became known later, the young people were badly beaten in the location of the brigade and then transferred by helicopter to Khankala, where they were thrown into a hole in the ground. Beatings continued here as well. The military at Khankala also had their own, "exclusive" techniques of mockery. For example, they forced the detainees to lay down on the bottom of the hole and from above a person, weighing, as it seemed to them, no less than 120-150 kg. All beatings and mockeries, as was later discovered were directed at forcing the young people to admit to the murder of 5 soldiers, which happened in Urus- Martanosky CRB. On 19th December the young people were taken out of the hole, seated into a BTR armored vehicle and transported in unknown direction. It was already dark, raining with snow. When the BTR drove into a field, while calling by surnames and handing out passports, the military started to push one detainee after another off the BTR. "Reach the village, stay alive", - they were explained. The young people in darkness and alone were approaching a settlement, which as they thought was Urus-Martan. It emerged, however, that they had been dumpedon an edge of Argun. Four of them only reached their homes by the evening of 20th December. Aslan Dundaev did not return. Searches for him, from available information, continued for some days. On 19th December at 7 o'clock in the evening in the city of Grozny near the checkpoint in the area of RTS, Russian servicemen cut the throat of 17-year old Dmitry Pavlovich Nikitenko. In spite of the severity of his wound, the boy survived. From his words it became known, that in the evening, when he went out to buy cigarettes, he was approached by three soldiers wearing masks. During a short interrogation, conducted right in the street, two of them removed their masks. After D. Nikitenko said, that he is a Russian, one of the soldiers remarked "All of you, locals, are the same". Then he ordered the boy to lay down on the ground and not to move, until they would leave. Dmitry obeyed the orders. He saw how the soldiers were leaving, but did not notice, that one of them suddenly turned back. After approaching D. Nikitenko who was lying on the ground, he turned him to himself and slashed the throat with a knife. From sudden pain Dmitry grabbed his wound and by doing so he saved his own life - the next impact of the knife was on his hand. Dmitry Nikitenko had his throat cut, but the main artery was not damaged. He was promptly delivered to a hospital and his life isn't in danger anymore. On 20th December in the city of Grozny at 11 hours 20 minutes daytime as a result of a mortar attack on a quarter, where buildings of two higher education institutions and the school N8 are located, the following students from the technology-economic faculty of the Chechen state teacher's institute died: Rustam Salaudinovich Dashaev, inhabitant of settlement Petropavlovskaya; Aset Mustapaevna Uspanova, born in 1978, inhabitant of settlement Chernorechie and inhabitants of settlement Noviye Aldy - Madina Lechaevna Mataevs, born in 1982 and Larisa Ovhatovna Nanaeva, born in 1977. In the 9th city hospital Muslim Baisultanov, who was wounded by shrapnel in the back, died. He simultaneously studied in the teacher's college and taught at the school. The bombardment was conducted from the direction of the Russian checkpoint, located on Sadovaya Street in the 1st micro district. Witnesses claim that it started at 10 am after a sudden explosion: on the streets inhabitants of nearby houses, both schoolboys, and the students who arrived for classes at the university and the teacher's college were taken by surprise. Mines were falling for one and a half hour into the courtyard in front of the school and the teacher's college, direct hits into buildings of the arts and financial-economic faculties were registered. At the beginning of the mortar attack students went into cellars after demands by their teachers. When it stopped, students started to come out from the bunkers. However, the explosions resumed after some minutes with new force. Students died, having left their bunkers, being deceived, too early. The corpses of fallen students were moved to the building of the medical faculty, where they were also photographed and prepared for burial. Relatives were immediately informed about the incident. A while after the tragedy, employees of the prosecutor's office and the court's medical expert arrived at the place. Russian "law enforcers" first of all were interested in the whereabouts of journalists who had photographed the corpses. Then they entered into a skirmish with teachers and relatives of the victims, groundlessly asserting, that the checkpoint was fired upon by unknown persons and the military were compelled to answer back. Having understood, that people are not badly informed on the events which have resulted in the killing of the students, the employee of the prosecutor's offices said such phrase as: " No big deal, just an overshot." People recognized one of the employees, who arrived to the scene. He happened to be Taus Murdalov, a Chechen and an inhabitant of the village Gekhi in the Urus-Martan district. Not too long ago he successfully "buried" the case about the fact of a massacre of people in the settlement Noviye Aldy, carried out by Russian soldiers in the beginning of February this year. Preliminary examination of the corpses, conducted by the court's medical expert, showed that the death of the students came from severed shrapnel wounds in area of the head and vital organs. Not a single bullet wound was discovered on their corpses. Shrapnel wounds were received by students of the teacher's college: Ibragim Vahaevich Sambiev, born in 1974; Malika Adlanovna Kagirova, born in 1976; Madina Atabaeva, born in 1980 and Zarema Vahaevna Hastaeva, born in 1979, who is currently in reanimation department of the 9th city hospital. Later it became known, that shrapnel from the mines that day killed one more person. His name is not known yet. As a result of a direct hit at an inhabited building on Raevskogo Street in the 1st micro district, 56-year old Timi Mazaev and his nephew 24-year old Zarema Mamaeva were killed. Serious injuries were received by Tumisha Mamaeva, mother of Zarema. END top