21 years ago, troops of the MIA of Russia killed hundreds of civilians of the Chechen village of Samashki
Samashki can be put in one sad number from Lidice, Katyn and my Lai… what happened in this Chechen village, known to many. But so do many of the horrible facts of the so-called “Stripping”, which was conducted by Russian interior Ministry units in April 1995? What happened in Samashki, fits the word “genocide”.
According to the Deputy commander of the MVD troops in Chechnya, Lieutenant-General A. A. Antonov (in the end of the article is a little more, what happened to that pig), it was “the first ever completely independent military operation, the troops of the interior Ministry”. This operation and its consequences had a wide public resonance both in Russia and abroad, and for the Chechen people has become another proof of the atrocities and inhumanity full of such people as “Russians”.
In accordance with the practice used by Russian invaders in Chechnya (now these pigs spend exactly the same practice in Ukraine), in Samashki was carried out mopping-up operation” in the village. The “sweep” of Samashki was accompanied by the killings of civilians, abuse of detainees, looting and burning homes…
Brief background:
All winter the Russian command was not to Samashki: heavy fighting in Grozny. By 6 April 1995, the situation around the village are strained to the limit: in the area of the settlement acted Chechen units.
Russian occupational command has deployed additional formation of Riot police, internal troops, about 100 artillery units and issued an ultimatum, according to which the village had to leave all the “action”, residents had to hand over the 264 automatic, 3 machine guns and 2 armored personnel carriers.
After a Council among themselves, the villagers decided to start to comply with the terms of the ultimatum, although the required weapons in the village was not. People were hoping for negotiations.
About 70 of the militia left the village at the request of the people to the side of the Sunzha ridge. That day in Samashki were only 4 armed people. The term of the ultimatum expired at 9 o’clock in the morning of 7 April 1995, but in the night of 6 to 7 April-defenseless village was opened artillery fire, and at 5 o’clock in the morning struck the aircraft.
On the morning of 7 April, about 300 people left the village of Samashki. In 10 hours, negotiations continued, but to no avail, because the residents are unable to pass the required number of weapons, which they did not have.
In 14 hours the commander of the group “West” General Mitkov repeated the ultimatum, and in the evening the Russian part of raided the village.
Punitive action lasted 4 days, during which the village did not miss the press or representatives of the red cross. Direct perpetrator of the bloody murder was General Romanov (aka General Antonov). He was the commander of the internal troops entered into the village.
GENOCIDE
In Samashki in one day on 8 April, have killed hundreds of women, children and elderly.
The atrocities began immediately after the entrance to the village the Russian punitive. The massacre of innocent people was imminent and terrible.
“Suspicious” house, first threw grenades and then “processed” flame throwers “Shmel”.
In the eyes of the local resident Anist Bisultanova shot the man while he begged for mercy and showed on their service ribbon. Ruslan V. killed 90-year-old father-in-law, who once participated in the liberation of Bucharest and Sofia… Not against those of the Nazis, as it turned out, he fought in his time!..
During the “cleaning” about 40 of the villagers fled into the forest and tried to sit there. However, woods hit the artillery. Under artillery fire almost all of them died…
Only according to on April 16 in the village cemetery were dug fresh graves 211, and every day their number increased. Many Samashkinsky were buried in other places…
The most common cause of death for men on April 7 and 8 — the executions at the place of detention, as a rule, immediately after entrance of the soldiers in the house or in the yard, sometimes after the beatings. So died: Waha Aziev, Yunus Aliyev, Adlab-Wahab Akhmetov, Muhid Bayaliev, ISA Borshigov and Khizir Habenaro, Bogoev Ali, Sajid Dada, 61-year-old Salavdi Zakiev, Sultan Interbev, Musait Isaev, Zachary Kabilov, Sharafutdin Kishmakhov Hanging Kubiev, Waha, Shamsaev, Humid of Umahanov, Wahid Magomadov, said-Hasan Mazuev, Supyan Minaev, said Ahmet Nagaev, 69-year-old said-Hasan Surkhashev, Shirvani takhayev, 60-year-old Abdul-Azim of Urusov, Solsbek Khamzayev, Movladi Kasparov, Hassan Tsagaev, Hose Tsatishaev, Russian citizens Alexei, Gennady and Nikolay.
Samashki, Vygonnaya str., 53. Body shot on April 8, 1995 ISA Borshigov and Khizir Habenaria. So in the courtyards of houses, the villagers were forced to bury the dead.
45 Sharipova str. Here the evening of April 7 military forced four men (two of whom were elderly) who were hiding in the house from the fire, climb into the pit to repair vehicles, and then opened fire on them from a vending machine. As a result, one person was killed and two were wounded. At the gate, the fence and walls of the house there are no traces from bullets, grenades or shells. With the exception of the pit wall, the rear side of the machine to the left and adjacent to the garage premises, on the ceiling and walls of which there are traces from a grenade. The house itself was clearly set on fire. Photo by M. Zamyatina, August 1995
Ul.Factory, 52. K. Mamaev (left) in front of the window through which the room the grenade was thrown. On the walls of the building there is no trace of the battle that could justify the use of grenades.
The place of execution of four Russian residents of Samashki. Room in the house 135 on the street. Clearly visible traces of bullets on the wall, the blood on the floor. It is important to emphasize that neither the external nor on the internal walls there are no traces of a fight no
63-year-old June Saipov was mortally wounded in the explosion of a grenade thrown on 8 April in the yard of his house (Vygonnaya str., 49). Half an hour later he died from blood loss
The bodies of Chechens who had been burned alive in Russian military
The body of an unknown man (the name of the deceased could not be established), which lies on the Steppe outside the house 102
EPILOGUE:
Russian military killed civilians of Samashki were never punished. Russia still denies the obvious evidence of the crimes of its soldiers. But what happened to those who gave the order to “cleansing” of the village, with A. A. Antonov (also known under the name of Romanov).
The punishment God was quickly overtaken. 6 октября1995 year in Grozny, in the tunnel under the railway bridge in the area Minutissimus radio-controlled mine. Car Romanova was at the center of the explosion. Romanov was seriously wounded, still survived, but remained disabled.
Simply put, this incompetent General Antonov-Novels turned into a “vegetable”: no longer moving, not talking, not responding. And the same fate surely awaits everyone, who contributed not only to the tragedy in the village of Samashki, but also those who killed the peaceful inhabitants of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria!..
