Place of interview: not specified, possibly the city of Grozny Interview date: after March 1995 Episode from the first Russian-Chechen war The victim is a resident of the city of Grozny. She lived in her own house. She was an artist and an architect. When the assault on the city began on December 31, 1995, […]
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🎧 The story of a journalist who became a victim of an unlawful detention
Interview date: July 21, 2000 A Moscow journalist, having been accredited in the city of Mozdok at the press center of the Russian group of forces, traveled to Ingushetia. There, he hired two security guards from among the current officers of the Russian police, who, like himself, were ethnic Chechens. On May 16, 2000, the […]
🎧 The story of an airstrike victim
Place of interview: Republic of Ingushetia, hospital Interview date: November-December 1999 The interviewee was left homeless during the first Russian-Chechen war (1994-1996). He spoke incoherently, and it could be gathered from the interview that he had also been left without a family as a result of the conflict. However, the circumstances of the events described […]
🎧 The story of a victim of a rocket self-explosion
Place of interview: Ingushetia, hospital Interview date: November-December 1999 A young man was the victim of a rocket bomb. Missiles had been lain outskirts of the village of New Sharoy, close to a mosque under construction. One morning, residents from the village, including many children, decided to examine the area. Following the gathering of a […]
🎧 The story of a 14-year-old resident injured during a missile attack from a helicopter from the village of Samashki
Place of interview: Republic of Ingushetia, a hospital in the city of Nazran Interview date: November-December 1999 On October 27, 1999m in the village of Samashki, a 14-year-old resident suffered injuries to his legs as a result of shrapnel from a rocket attack launched from a helicopter. The victim talked about the circumstances of his […]
🎧 The story of a father whose sons were killed during the “sweeping operations” in the village of Gekhi-Chu
Place of interview: Sputnik Campground, Ingushetia Interview date: March 28, 2000 The interview was a resident of the village of Gekhi-Chu. He spoke of events associated with the exit of Chechen formations from Grozny, as well as the shelling and “sweeping operations” in the settlements to which the formations had retreated. On February 6, 2000, […]
🎧 The story of a woman concerning the storming of the village of Goy-Chu (Komsomolskoe) and the possible death of her children
Place of interview: Goysky village cemetery Interview date: late March – early April 2000 The woman was a resident of the city of Grozny. Her relatives lived in Goy-Chu, to which she decided to travel in the hopes of bypassing the war. Her eldest son lived in Moscow at the time, and her younger daughter […]
🎧 The story of a woman speaking about the victims of the bombing and shelling of the city of Shali from January 6-13, 2000
Place of interview: Republic of Ingushetia Interview date: likely March 2000 The woman left the city of Shali on January 13, 2000. Prior to leaving, she had hoped to wait out the active phase of the hostilities at home. In addition, traveling on the roads during this time was unsafe. However, following three episodes of […]
🎧 The story of a resident of Alkhan-Yurt speaking about how she had hidden in basements during the shelling and assault on the village
Place of interview: unknown Interview date: spring-summer 2000 The interviewee – a mother of many children – described how her family and others were hiding from the bombing and shelling of the village. Approximately 60 people had gathered in the basement. They were not allowed to leave the basement for four days for water or […]
🎧 The story of a woman speaking about the bombing of the village of Gikalovsky
Place of interview: Severny refugee camp (train carriage) in Ingushetia Interview date: prior to the liquidation of camp “North” in December 1999 An interview was given by an elementary school teacher who worked at the village school. According to her, on November 20, 1999, she and her husband had travelled to a store and had […]
🎧 The story of a witness to a missile strike in the center of Shali
Place of interview: Ingushetia Interview date: unknown The relatives of the witness, including her brother, lived in the city center, at the eighth school. According to her, on the day of the attack, the city center streets were filled with celebration as people travelled home to their relatives and friends. A number of people, particularly […]
🎧 The story of a refugee from Alkhan-Kala speaking about the “sweeping operations” in the village
Place of interview: Kavkaz-1 (Caucasus-1) checkpoint on the Chechen-Ingush administrative border Interview date: February 4, 2000 The interviewee had visited Alkhan-Kala upon hearing that a sweeping operation had been carried out there. She had travelled from the village of Kulary, crossed a ford across the Sunzha River and entered the western area of the village […]
🎧 The story of a woman speaking about the murder of people in the Staropromyslovsky District and the removal of corpses by relatives
Place of interview: unknown Interview date: unknown On around February 25, 2000, the interviewee left her children with her mother in the village of Proletarsky (at the former state farm named after the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution), and travelled to the Staropromyslovsky District. At a Russian post, she was told that the city […]
🎧 The story of a woman speaking about the death of her nephew in a mine and the death of her uncle in respect of whom the execution was simulated
Place of interview: Balashikha city Interview date: 2000 The interviewee talks about the death of her ten-year-old nephew. According to her, the incident occurred on May 1, 2000 in Grozny. On that day, the boy’s father had gone to a forest belt adjacent to his house. As there was no electricity or gas in the […]
🎧 The story of a woman who survived the storming of the city of Grozny
Place of interview: unknown Interview date: unknown The interview is an account of a woman who did not leave the city of Grozny at all while it was stormed. During the first war (1995-1996), she lost her husband and her 19-year-old son. Prior to the second war, she worked in a militarized guard. On either […]
🎧 The story of a witness to the bombing of the city of Urus-Martan
Place of interview: refugee camp in Ingushetia Interview date: unknown The interviewee is a resident of the city of Grozny. Together with her three children, she moved to Urus-Martan believing that it would be safer there. She recalls events that occurred on October 2, 2000 between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. The woman and her […]
🎧 The story of a woman who visited her village following a sweeping operation
Place of interview: Ingushetia Interview date: February 9, 2000 On February 8, 2000, the interviewee arrived at a checkpoint on the administrative border between Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic – near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya – with the aim of receiving news as journalists, human rights activists and refugees had gathered there to meet people […]
🎧 The story of women who left Katyr-Yurt
Place of interview: a checkpoint near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya Interview date: February 10, 2000 A woman described her travel from Katyr-Yurt stating that “there were only corpses around”. In that moment, another interviewee intervened as she asked the human rights activist that was interviewing them whether Chechens […]
🎧 The story of the murders in Grozny in January-February 2000
Place of interview: Ingushetia Interview date: February 9, 2000 “I will tell you what I saw,” said a man who had left Grozny to provide an interview with human rights activists. “I was at home. I was a refugee until a week ago when I returned home to Grozny”. According to the interviewee, he first […]
🎧 The story of a rocket attack on the village of Shaami-Yurt and the detention of its inhabitants
Place of interview: Ingushetia
Interview date: February 9, 2000
“Can you remember the date of the attack?”, the female interviewee repeated the question of the interviewer. “It was the fourth, I think”.
“This is the village of Shaami-Yurt”, the interviewee continued. According to her, on February 4, not a single Chechen fighter was to be seen […]