THE ONLY ONE

In Chechnya, the land of the lawyer Abdula Khamzayev, who had long painted and died in Moscow, was devoted to the earth

And we have a lot of Dvokatov. Moscow is a city oversaturated with lawyers practicing for all cases of our lives: administrative, criminal, corporate, arbitration ...

And on this lawyer field, where a lot of money and a huge influence that no one wanted to lose is spinning, - only Abdula Mayerbekovich Khamzaev remained. He was the only one who was taken to protect the victims from among the civilian population from war crimes in Chechnya committed during the so -called "anti -terrorist operation."

Protecting the unfortunate, at times he was really terrible - he was met immensely, loud, harsh, not restrained in his tongue, and could have swung. Sometimes I did not want to approach him - he was a metal thunder and lightning against the executioners and those whom he suspected of sympathy for them. There was no shadow of political correctness in it - and this is when everyone became her aces.

But what did he stay? Was there a chance of other behavior to continue to consider himself a decent person in the proposed circumstances? The worthy son of his father Urusmartan, Mayerbek Khamzaev, for the sake of which, as he told me, always, in fact, served? ..

Today I want to know only one thing: who can continue to do the same and the same? After him?

Anna Politkovskaya

From an interview with Abduly Khamzaev “Novaya Gazeta” (spring 2003):
“... Of course, Budanov did not evade responsibility ... However, Budanov’s case is an exception against the general background. His crime turned out to be disclosed and became the subject of universal publicity by accident. Usually, everything is different-the military is taken away from liability in all possible ways ...
- If the idea with the international criminal tribunal for crimes committed in Chechnya will reach the real permission, you personally can provide such a tribunal with materials on cases that Russian law enforcement agencies did not want to bring to court because it concerned criminals in uniform?
- As much as you like. There are hundreds of such cases today ... Those who committed particularly serious crimes - murders - should not be amnestied. From one side or the other. The Chechen, who allowed the murder of another person, regardless of anything, is obliged to experience the inevitability of criminal punishment. These games do not fit into my concepts when yesterday’s action movie is made today and awarded the highest awards of the state. ”

06/21/2004