February 5th 2010 · Prague Watchdog / Memorial · ALSO AVAILABLE IN:
Aldy – a case still open
The film we present below is dedicated to the massacre in the village of Novye Aldy on February 5, 2000. This incident was one of the most terrible and bloody pages of the war in Chechnya.
A film about the events of February 5, 2000 in the village of Novye Aldy, Chechnya, where OMON security police from St. Petersburg, Russia, carried out a "mop-up” operation. Residents of the village say that after the raid they buried 82 corpses, and the Memorial human rights centre later documented the killing of at least 56 people. No insurgents were among those who were shot – all were civilians: old people, women and children. The operation at Novye Aldy was one of the bloodiest in the history of the Second Chechen War.
The film is based on documentary video footage taken by residents of Novye Aldy on February 9, 2000, and on interviews with eyewitnesses of the events recorded in January-February 2009 by members of the Memorial Human Rights Centre at the request of the film’s directors.
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