A FAMILY OF TWO WOMEN WAS SHOT

May 5, 2003 – (Memo.ru – Chechnya, Nazrani) A family of two women was shot. The women perished during a terrorist act in the village of Iliskhan-Yurt (Belorechye) in the Gudermes district.

On May 14, 2003 there was a terrorist act in the village of Iliskhan-Yurt. The mass media rushed forward to name one of the suicide bombers - Shakhidat Baymuradova. Her body was found in the immediate vicinity of the explosion site. It was also claimed that her relatives, including her sons, were involved in the activity of one of the outlawed armed formations and were either killed or arrested.

On the night of May 17th, four relatives of Shakhidat Baymuradova were shot. Unknown men carried out the shooting in the village of Bachi-Yurt.

The staff of the Human Right Center "Memorial" found out the following.

Shakhidat Baymuradova (maiden name Abalaeva), 46, resided in the village of Nizhnie Naybere (Suvorov-Yurt) of the Gudermes district. Her husband died in a car accident before the beginning of the second Chechen war. One of her sons perished, the other is serving a prison sentence.

However, the information about their belonging to an armed formation is false. The first of them fell victim to a Chechen man; the second took revenge for his brother and was arrested. According to the reports of neighbors and relatives, Shakhidat had nothing to do with Vakhabism and had no motives for taking revenge on the authority.

For some reason, neither the mass media nor the authority mentioned that along with Shakhidat, her sister Amani Visaeva, 70 also perished in the blast. She resided in the village Sidi-Khutor of the Vedeno district, but like many other inhabitants of mountain villages, was forced to flee. She lived in her sister's house in the village of Nizhnie Naybere. On May 17, one of her sons, Aslambek Yakubovich Visaev, 33, was detained in Gudermes by representatives of the federal forces and disappeared. With him, his cousin Aslambek was also detained and disappeared.

According to available information, Amani Visaeva applied to different representatives of the authority several times during the past two years in search of her son. In May she attempted to force her way in to see A. Kadirov, but failed. Someone advised her to address him during a religious festival in Iliskhan-Yurt.

Most likely, neither Shakhidat Baymuradova nor Amani Visaeva had anything to do with the terrorist act. They happened to be its accidental victims, when Amani, accompanied by her younger sister, was trying to reach Kadirov.

The character of the sisters' wounds circumstantially confirms the finding. According to the court's forensic expertise, Shakhidat died from a shrapnel temple wound, Amani - from multiple shrapnel wounds. Neither of them had a suicide belt on. The conclusion is confirmed by the fact that both their bodies were handed over to their relatives for burial. They were buried in the village of Bachi-Yurt, their native village.

After the funeral, on May 17 at about 3pm, the Bachi-Yurt house of the deceased sisters was surrounded by a large group of armed men in camouflage and masks. They broke into the house and killed four people. The first ones to be shot were two sons of Amani Visaevaa: Khanpasha Yakubovich Vasaev, 41, and Movsar Yakubovich Visaev, 38. Next the brother of Amani and Shakhidat, Duta Saud-Akhmedovich Abalaev, 62, and his daughter Luisa Abalaeva, 25 were killed. The intruders spoke between themselves and with the remaining members of the Abalaev family in Chechen with no accent. When someone shouted at the killers: "What are you doing? People oughtn't be shot out of court and investigation!", the answer was: "Your people have killed without any court."

On May 17, a group of Kadirov's security people came to the house of the Abayev family. They told the family's survivors that those were not their people who carried out the killing. "There's no blood on us" they said.

From: http://www.memo.ru/eng/memhrc/texts/guderm03.shtml