People are disappearing in Grozny's Oktyabrski districtTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus - Several people who were recently arrested have disappeared without a trace in Grozny’s Oktyabrski district command post.
On the morning of May 4 in Aldy, the outskirts of Grozny, some drunken soldiers arrested Adam Tovsultanov. These same men had earlier broken into a neighboring house where Salman Kulayev, a former Chechen National Bank employee, once lived and demanded of the three women now living there to give them his current address.
Neighbors believe that the soldiers were outraged when they couldn’t find Kulayev, so arrested the first man they encountered, which happened to be Tovsultanov.
According to eyewitnesses, the soldiers said they were from the Oktyabrski district’s military command post; yet Adam’s relatives were unable to find him there.
A similar story occurred with Sultan Mukayev of Chernorechie near Aldy. On May 3 he and his mother were summoned to the local military post where Sultan was promptly arrested. His mother was told that he had been handed over to the Russian Interior Ministry department in the Oktyabrski district.
However, no one at department could confirm this. All they said was that they didn’t know why he was arrested or where he was being held. (O/E,T) |
