From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/23/2005 8:44 AM 23.12.2005 15:02 MSK Chechen Diary CHECHNYA. (Information courtesy of the Russian-Chechen Information Agency, Union of Non-Governmental Organisations, Chechen Committee of National Salvation). In Chechnya and Ingushetia there is no end to disappearances, killings, “special operations”, “addressed cleansing operations”, and arbitrary behaviour by Russian forces, the Chechen militia, as well as other unidentified groups.
8 December Grozny. A girl aged 16 has disappeared in the Zavod part of the capital. Madina Adueva left home for school, and has not returned.
Grozny. During the hours of darkness, masked and camouflaged men took a resident of Malgobek street, Kazbek Dzhantamirov. It is unknown where he was taken. Another Grozny resident, Mokhmad Magomadov, was taken from his house on Tukhachev street.
Urus Martan region. A land mine was discovered on the outskirts of Gekhi by federal forces. It was defused.
Grozny. A partly decomposed body was discovered in the Oktyabr city district. The identity of the body is unknown.
Urus Martan region. A group of locals in Urus-Martan appealed to a correspondent from the RCIA to investigate the disappearance of a large herd of cows. According to the locals, the herd disappeared from a pasture west of the village. Eyewitnesses Timur and Tagir Akhmadov related how on the evening of 7 December they saw a group of 5 or 6 men dressed in fatigues driving the cattle towards the mountains.
9 December Grozny region. Armed men in fatigues took away Askhab Yusupov from his house in Berkat Yurt. The group left with him in unmarked cars.
Grozny. A local resident, Khamzat Shamilev (22), was taken by armed forces. His relatives assert he had never been involved in illegal activities.
Grozny region. Members of an unidentified force took away two brothers, Jakub and Ansara Beterbiev, aged 47 and 43 respectively. While Jakub, tortured and beaten, was released soon afterwards, the fate of his younger brother remains unknown.
Grozny. In the Lenin district of the city, a body of a man aged between 25 and 30 was discovered. No documentation was found on the body, which carried evidence of multiple injuries.
Shelkovsky region. A quarrel broke out at a check point in the region centre of Shelkovskaya. A man from the so-called Anti-Terrorist Centre (Kadyrovtsy), Amurdi Izmailov, opened fire and mortally wounded militia sergeant Askhab Gaierbekov and Usman Nudiev (a militia patrol commander). Both passed away in the local district hospital.
Grozny. Nine masked men armed with automatic weapons burst into an apartment on Yaltinskaya road and murdered 24-year-old Said-Akhmet Elmurzaev. The man was a native of Urus-Martan and was registered as living in Stary Achkhoy.
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