Schoolchildren were recruited at sea

For which Dagestan children were shot on July 13, 2006

For a month ago, on the night of July 12 to 13, a group of young people from the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, under strange circumstances, was shot on the border with Chechnya, was shot by "unidentified power structures." 13 people died, five survived by chance. They were taken into custody on charges of participating in the NVF - illegal armed groups (Article 208, part 2).

Svetlana Gannushkina, a well-known human rights activist, member of the Presidential Council for the promotion of the development of civil society and human rights, an expert of the apparatus of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, co-chair of the Memorial human rights center and the head of the civilian assistance, visited the Khasa-Vyurt district to meet with the families of all 13 dead and 5 dead and 5 dead and 5 dead and 5 dead and 5 dead and 5 dead Alive. The result of meetings is an immediate appeal to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.

- What is the essence of the letter?

- The requirement of an adequate investigation. It is not conducted, as it should. Parents of the group members are not interrogated. Families did not give out death certificates. Not a forensic examination was not carried out - it was not established, as a result of which the death of each of the dead has occurred? At the same time, those who bathed the bodies before the burial argue that many have traces of control shots in the ear, forehead, back of the head. But the examination was not carried out: from what weapons were these shots made? To whom does it belong? Fingerprints on the machines that were near the bodies of the dead were not removed - this is how the video was made.

- Whose weapons were?

“If all the survivors testified that the recruiters who pulled them out“ at sea ” - and they were taken to rest on the Caspian Sea, - only cartridges were handed out to everyone ... The most important thing: these recruiters are not conducted. Why? This gives rise to a lot of rumors.

Only an honest investigation and an adequate conversation with people can dispel all rumors. At the same time, in the bazaar they sell posthumous videos (two types) of the dead, and these personnel give birth to even more new questions. On the one hand, there is a video where the dead are in their clothes in which they left home. On the other hand, they, and also after death, but already in camouflage, on some of the bodies of camouflage are stretched carelessly, half. Who could shoot such a video? Obviously, the one who killed. But why is it all in the bazaar? ..

- Did a criminal case on the fact of the murder of 13 people?

- Of course not. Only "NVF." And here, too, a number of questions. If it was a provocation, what the families of these guys are sure of, then, then at night there was not a fight “with the NVF”, but a murder. But if it was not a provocation, then those who shot the guys, how were they on their route?

-Still, one cannot but understand that no one pulled the guys into this group-they went there voluntarily ...

- Agree. But where did they go? Talking with their families, I tried to build a schedule of this last day - July 12. To understand: why did they go there? Did they have personal reasons? And, of course, who were recruiters? I'll tell you a few stories.

The 15-year-old ninth-grader Shamil Badanov from the village of Bammat-Bekyurt (within Khasavyurt) was a master of sports in freestyle wrestling and spent all this summer in a sports camp, preparing for competitions. On Saturday, which was on the eve of the events (July 12-13 - Wednesday and Thursday), he was released home for a week to rest. Shamil did not attend the mosque at all and was not interested in anything but sports, and was involved in sports professionally. The 12th Shamil told his mother: "I will go to the sea with the guys." And she is sure that he thought so. Shamil died. Someone instead of the sea brought into the forest. And now what to do mother?

In the house of the deceased 18-year-old Islam Albulatov from the village of Solnechny (almost on the border with the Gudermes district of Chechnya.-A.P.), the entire wall was forced by cups. Islam is the champion of Dagestan in freestyle wrestling. Professional fighter, he trained twice a day. He was already taken to the Russian national team for the European Championship, preparing seriously. He was neither politicized nor religious. He trained in the morning of the 12th. Then his friend brought his sports bag home and said that Islam went with other guys after training at sea to relax. The family is convinced that Islam did not know where they were really going. If we accept the version that they were lured with money, then Islam did not need them at all, his goal was serious in his life, he was not exchanged.

Arsen Temirsultanov, minor, born in 1988, also very much asked from his mother to let him go to the sea with the guys. And she let him go. Arsen three times saw a man who collected them in a group - this is a certain Chechen, nicknamed Bock. This side was talking with boys of this kind: "Help the Chechens - and without pain you go to heaven." Boka persuaded "to go to the sea, and there we will discuss everything." It is quite obvious that most of the guys still "rode at sea." Arsen, for example, was generally sure that he would return home that evening.

- Yes, at sea, but how to explain that the place of gathering was Nuradilovo - the village in the exact opposite side of the sea, but everything is closer to Chechnya? And then the group moved towards Chechnya?

-The 16-year-old Yusup Daskaev survived, he gave such evidence. When they were taken not towards the sea, Yusup said: “There is no sea. Where are we going? ” They answered him: "At least where we are going, but there is no way back."

The survivors also testified to this kind: when they ended up in Nuradilov, the one who met them there asked: “What are you so few?” Was it necessary more? It is known that they called much more, but some parents simply did not give money for a minibus. Who was waiting for? Persistent rumors are that the Kadyrovites were waiting for Rappani Khalilov, a famous gang leader, and for some reason brought children. The recruiters brought the Kadyrovites - was there an indicative operation to destroy the gang? And when they realized that they shot children, and not militants, decided to hush up everything? ..

Talked Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "New"

08/24/2006