{"id":11899,"date":"2015-02-18T17:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/?p=11899"},"modified":"2019-08-11T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T10:28:14","slug":"guys-dont-kill-me-i-have-small-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/2015\/02\/guys-dont-kill-me-i-have-small-children\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Guys! Don\u2019t kill me \u2013 I have small children!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">15 years from the tragedy in the Chechen village of Novy Aldi: 5-6 Feb.2000<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">February 5, 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of mass killing in the Chechen village of Novy Aldi, a village a few miles south of Grozny. On February 5, 2000, hundreds of Russian troops entered Novy Aldi and began methodically killing the inhabitants, in the streets or in their houses, leaving dozens of corpses behind. Later, the surviving villagers speculated that the soldiers were Russian mercenaries \u2013 faces blackened with mud, uniforms without insignia. For the majority of the murders\u2019, \u201creason\u201d for the killing was as follows: completely drunken soldiers, demanding money. If a household had no money or not enough, soldiers would grab gold earrings or gold teeth. When a household could produce neither cash nor gold, a man in the house would be killed \u2013 begging would not save his life, not even the words: \u201dDon\u2019t kill me guys, I have small children!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But there was another \u201creason\u201d for the exceptional cruelty of this massacre. Because the village of Novy Aldi is close to Grozny, a few Chechen militants seemed to pass through the village during retreats from the fight for Grozny (2000): during December 1999\/January 2000 the Federal army heavily bombed and shelled Novy Aldi. The inhabitants, including children and elderly, hid for weeks in basements, only rarely venturing out in search of water. Many elderly people suffered strokes and heart attacks; in damp, freezing basements, people died from pneumonia. Many villagers who tried to deliver water died in bombing raids: within two months, the small village had 75 new graves. For the Federal commanders, in particular for Generals V. Shamanov, G. Troschev, V. Manilov, and of course the man responsible for all that happened in Chechnya, the commander of the joint troops in Chechnya, General Viktor Kazantsev,- these civilian deaths were not enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four days after the nightmare of February 5th, the great peace defender Viktor Popkov, member \u201cMemorial\u201d arrived in Novy Aldi. He had brought a film producer to Novy Aldi. From interviews of survivors and camerawork, the appeared documentary became a strong evidence of the crimes of the Russian federal troops. , Viktor Popkov was machine-gunned by a masked assailant, 50 meters from one of the Russian checkpoints in Chechnya, on April 18, 2001. He died on June 2 in a Moscow hospital. Human rights defenders are convinced that he was killed for his peace activities, particularly for this film which so vividly documents the February 2000 atrocities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On February 4, 2000 there was a routine check of the passports of the Novy Aldi villagers. During the inspection, some soldiers were heard to mutter something strange, \u201cFor your own good, get out of town &#8211; we are followed by beasts, they\u2019re right behind us. They have orders to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next day the nightmare began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below are fragments, frame by frame, of this documentary, made by Victoria Poupko and Vladimir Krylovsky (New York).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We see the cemetery of the village of Novy Aldi. A group of middle-aged Chechens are burying two corpses, the bodies wrapped in blankets. Both are lowered into the same grave. On the relatives\u2019 faces we see expressions ranging from desperate grief to passive numbness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An elderly Chechen man turns to the camera and says,\u201d After the boeviks left Novy Aldi, the elderly got together and went to the Russians, and saw their colonel, Mr.Lukashov. They told him that there were no boeviks in our village: \u2018Your soldiers can come in and check this out. You can detain us as hostages, if you don\u2019t want to take our word for it; or we can walk in front of you, as human shields.\u2019 On February 4 there was a regular passport check.On February 5 other Federal troops, a different battalion arrived. What happened then is hard to talk about. The soldiers were all drunk and on drugs. By our count, 84 people were killed. Among them were elderly, women and children. The people were killed in cellars, in houses, in the street. They were killed because they didn\u2019t have enough money to pay off the soldiers\u201d. The man tries to continue but is choked by tears. Off-camera another voice speaks: \u201cThis man is the brother of one of the men we buried. It\u2019s the second brother &#8211; these bodies are right near the father, and another brother \u2013 well, the soldiers didn\u2019t see them. After that, the Russians took all the valuable stuff and set the house on fire.\u201d He adds: \u201cThe soldiers who came here on February 5th were said to be of the 245th division , 6th detachment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera shows a barn. Standing before it are an old man and an old woman in a headscarf, her arms folded over her chest in grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The woman says: \u201cWe\u2019ve buried my two sons and my husband. They are not guilty of anything. They came to my nephew to fix a roof, and when they were returning \u2026\u201d (she is wailing with grief). \u201cWho are the killers? Why are they such barbarians?\u201d She breaks down, sobbing.) \u201cThey killed my good sons, my innocent sons, and my husband. I am now all alone \u2026 Another neighbor, he was carrying my dead son body \u2013 and he was killed. Can\u2019t anyone come to help us?\u201d An old Chechen leads her away. She continues to talk wailing, \u201cThey never in their life took into their hands a weapon. My sons are not guilty of anythi-i-ng!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Near freshly-dug graves, an elderly Chechen man squats on the ground. Nearby a dead man, maybe 55 years old, is lying on a stretcher. On the chest of the dead man is his hat. The elderly man is holding a passport and looking into it, says: \u201cThis is Sapper Street, here, before you is a Ukrainian man Chatura, Viktor Platonovich. He went out to help a neighbor, and on his return home, \u2026 look [what happened to him]\u201d He places the passport of the dead man on his chest: \u2018Killed on February 5th\u2019. Here\u2019s a bullet hole through his passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An elderly Chechen man in a sweater and fur hat is speaking to the camera: \u201c The Federal troops came, supposedly to check passports, and \u2026\u201d The camera moves to show the bodies of two dead men. \u201cThese two brothers were killed, Guna and Omar, men about 50 years old. One of them got it in the eye, and he bled all over his chest. Look, he still has his hands in his pockets \u2013 he didn\u2019t have time to take them out. Kudozov, Guna and Omar, of 88 Cemlian Street. The Russians left, and the brothers\u2019 bodies have been lying in the street until now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An elderly Chechen woman is standing in front of a house, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. She is staring straight ahead, and we can see that it is very difficult for her to talk. She says: \u201cIt was February 5th, I can\u2019t remember what day of the week it was. I was told that the soldiers were coming as they did the day before, to check passports. We already had come out of the cellar and were in the house. Then the shooting started, and it was very close. We didn\u2019t realize what was going on. But people were screaming, \u2018Something terrible is happening! Terrible! Frightening! And it\u2019s moving towards us!\u2019 Something we heard, not far from here \u2013 we could hear someone speaking to soldiers, \u2018Guys, I just came here to help my friend to fix the roof.\u2019 And another was standing near the gate, he was taken away somewhere. And another was taken away. To where? Later it turned out that they were taken to their own houses: the soldiers demanded gold, silver, from their families, whatever they had. One took from his father money, I\u2019m not sure how much, and then the soldiers took the man back with them to return him to where they picked him up \u2013 but the soldiers killed him on the way. We know the exact place where he was killed. The second man\u2019s house \u2013 his wife offered all her money, their goat \u2013 and the soldier shot the ground right at her feet and told her \u201cIf you don\u2019t get more, I will kill you.\u201d Somehow these two managed to stay alive, this man and his wife.\u201d The woman gestures with her hand: \u201cIn that house over there, everybody got killed. Only Akhyad survived. Three others &#8211; Sultan Gabrailov, Vakha, another Vakha who always wore dark glasses, I don\u2019t remember his last name \u2013 these three were shot on the spot. And the soldiers ripped out their gold teeth. Then they came to us, made all four of us stand outside: my husband, son, myself, and my granddaughter. Right here. And said, \u2018You got three minutes. If you do not give \u2026 \u2018 And they shouted obscene threats, things that didn\u2019t sound like human language. The smell of vodka from them was very strong. They could hardly stand on feet. The soldier told my husband, \u2018If you don\u2019t give me more, I\u2019ll kill you.\u2019 And more swearing and curses. The soldier counted the money, then walked up to me. \u2018And you, old &#8212;,\u2019 and more cursing \u2013 I can\u2019t repeat what he called us. \u2018We\u2019ll take your gold teeth and you\u2019ll die.\u2019 And more swearing in Russian. I said, \u2018Sonny, my teeth are in my denture, it\u2019s simple \u2013 you can take it.\u2019 I took it out, and handed it to him. He said, \u2018Get it out of my face (another obscenity). And to my son: \u2018I\u2019m going to shoot you in the eye \u2013 you look like a boevik.\u2019 My son never was a boevik \u2013 on our street there were no boeviks at all. Not in the first war either \u2013 not even one young man went to war. We\u2019re poor people; the rich people have already left the village, and we have nothing. No food, no drinks, no place to live, nothing left.\u201d Living place ruined, razed by bombs. Soldiers with artillery cannons, machine guns\u2026they were killing us. We were in cellars, hungry, cold, nothing to eat, just surviving. And what now? I took out my earrings, my granddaughter took out her little earrings, gave them to the soldier, I told them \u2018Sonny, please take them. Leave us alive.\u2019 And he again to my son, \u2018I will just shoot you in the eye.\u2019 Then father said, \u2018Sonny, he has six children \u2013 don\u2019t kill him. He\u2019s my only son.\u2019 And he still threatened, \u2018If you don\u2019t give one more gram of gold, I\u2019ll kill everybody.\u2019 My son used to have crowns \u2013 they had already been removed. My granddaughter went in the house to get these four crowns, brought them out. Then the soldier said, with obscenity. \u2018OK, everyone into the house. If you leave the house, I\u2019ll kill you all.\u2019 Then he left our yard. He was very drunk, barely managed to get out of our yard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through a tiny shot-out window the camera shows a cellar, so dark we can hardly see a body lying on a bed. Off-camera a woman is speaking very emotionally: \u201cThat\u2019s her body, there on the bed. She was a Russian \u2013 she got killed when a soldier threw a grenade in here. See, there\u2019s a piece of the limonka [grenade]. They were very good Russian people, our neighbors \u2013 we lived next to them as friends. When the shelling got bad we took her with us to our basement and we stayed here together for five months. She never did anything bad to anyone. Why did they kill her? And they told us they laid mines next to her body \u2013 but why? Her body is starting to smell bad, but we are afraid to touch her. We covered the window so that cats and dogs can\u2019t go in to gnaw at her. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera shows the interior of another house. Three corpses are lying on the floor. One, a man about 70, has died from a matchbox-sized headwound, and blood and brain tissue have oozed onto the floor. Off-camera we hear the voice of an elderly man speaking slowly, his voice shaking with emotion: \u201cAbulhanov, Akhmet; he was born in 1921.\u201d Another corpse is a woman, about 60. Her fingers are contorted in a pre-death agony. The voice continues: \u201cAbdulmejinova Zina, born 1940 \u2026\u201d The third corpse is lying somewhat to the side: a man about 50. \u201cAbdulmejinov Hassan, born in 1953. He was killed on February 5, 2000 at 2:30. They were in their own house &#8211; and the soldiers just came in and shot them on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera moves to the previous speaker, an old Chechen man of about 75 wearing a fur hat. Standing a bit away from him, we see a woman crying. Through tears she says, \u201cThey were waiting the day when the Federals would come and say \u2018There is no more war.\u2019 They were waiting for the day when no one is killed anymore, and we will be free. But the Russians came with automatic guns and grenades. They threatened us, they took all we had \u2013 money, gold. And this old man, the people saw him: the soldiers promised to leave him alive. But when he gave them his last kopek, they shot him. They said, \u2019You old man, you are also a boevik.\u2019 He pleaded with them, \u2018What are you doing, guys?\u2019\u201d The woman continues: \u201dOn February 5 they killed in Novy Aldi almost a hundred people.\u201d (She is weeping noisily). \u201cI have no more words. This is that war, we saw with our own eyes what terrorism is. We lived through it ourselves. And the Russian radio declared on February 6th that the war is over. How can it be over for us, if we can never forget this day?\u201d She is sobbing. \u201cHow did we survive? I cannot explain why. Allah let us be spared. Russian soldiers killed our men, and they were going to kill us, women and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera shows the interior of a neighboring house. A Chechen man about 45 years old is speaking: \u201cSultan Mukhaev, born in 1950\u2026 on February 5th about 2:00 in the afternoon he came to my house, asking me for money. A Russian soldier had him at gunpoint, a machine-gun and grenade in his hands. I\u2019m asking, \u2018How much do you need? I\u2019ll go to collect whatever I can.\u2019 My father had only 75 rubles, I borrowed 150 rubles from my neighbor. I myself had 200 rubles. I gave Sultan all the money, but the soldier still took him away and said, \u2018We will let you go free.\u2019 And now tonight I found Sultan \u2013 dead! Killed!\u201d He was silent for a long time. \u201cI cannot find any more words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera shows the interior of another house. A corpse of an elderly man is lying on the floor. A young Chechen man reaches down to straighten a coat which is covering the corpse. He says, \u201cThis old man lived in this house. When he heard the shooting he went out to see who had been killed, and he was shot on the spot. He was about 76, or closer to 80. They didn\u2019t shoot him with one bullet \u2013 they emptied half an ammunition belt into him. Then they ripped out his gold teeth.\u201d The camera follows as the young man walks into another room. A dead woman, about 45 years old is lying on the floor. \u201cAfter they killed the old man, this woman Koko Bisultanova was the first to run out to see. Right there in the yard, they got her with a small cannon.\u201d A few feet away we see another dead woman. \u201cThis is Amani,\u201d the young man continues. \u201cShe jumped out after Koko \u2013 she saw her falling and immediately rushed back to the house. A soldier followed right after her and shot her down. They went into the house and seized everything valuable and smashed up the house. And not only in this house, they were going and do this in all houses.\u201d<br \/>\nAn elderly woman interrupts the young man: \u201cThere are so many dead bodies \u2013 I saw them with my own eyes! I first saw them killed \u2013 \u201c Her face is twisted with grief. \u201cFirst I saw this woman . They ripped out her gold teeth \u2013 she had some, and now they\u2019re gone. The Russians ripped them out \u2013 nobody else but them would do this. My neighbor, an old man, also was lying here. And another old man was here, next to him \u2013 and they also ripped out their teeth.\u201d We hear the cameraman ask, \u201cWho? Who is \u2018they\u2019?\u201d Both the young man and the elderly woman answer quickly, they just shouted: \u201dThe soldiers! The Russian soldiers, and the special forces soldiers!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The woman continues emotionally: \u201cThen they came to me and said, \u2018You! Up against the wall!\u2019 I was saved by a miracle. They just told us openly, \u2018We have an order to shoot all! An order to kill every one of you!\u2019 And then, if you down the street, if you go there right now, the people will tell you \u2026 A girl, nine years old! Her mother, 41 years old! They shot the mother down, right in front of the girl! Eighty-four people were killed. It\u2019s unbearable! We have to do something, whatever it takes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A young man speaks to the camera: \u201cTwo streets \u2013 84 bodies!\u201d A woman: \u201cAnd on our street \u2013 they killed the wounded! She seems to be quoting someone. \u2018They\u2019re suffering so badly \u2013 better finish them off!\u2019. And they did finish them off. It was a hideous genocide on that day! February 5th!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera shows the interior of a next house. The corpse of a man is lying on the floor, his face covered with blood; in place of the upper half of his head is a mass of bloody tissue. The young man who was speaking previously continues, off-camera, ( we can\u2019t hear the name): \u201cHe was about 45 years old \u2026 He got shot simply because he left his house and walked out on the street. They beat him up, real bad, then shot him down. Part of his head is missing at all \u2013 they used an assault rifle-grenade launcher!\u201d We see another dead man &#8211; with a deep, bloody hole in his temple. \u201cThis is Dadaev Ibrahim \u2013 he was at his friend\u2019s house. He, too \u2013 just walked out on the street and they shot him in the head. He\u2019s 50 years old. They shot both of them. They didn\u2019t have pity on anyone \u2013 just one after another, shot!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another house. An aged man points out to a corpse lying on the floor: \u201cIt happened on the 5th of February. Podvezhsky is his name \u2013 he was shot on the spot.\u201d Another corpse is lying there, covered with a blanket. \u201cJahmbekov Vakha \u2013 they mutilated him badly. They asked him for money or gold, but he\u2019s a poor man. And because he had no money to pay them off, he was shot down!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interior of the house next door. On the floor we see six corpses lying in a row. Three are old men about 70. Three others are men who are 40-45 years old. Their hands have been crooked in agony&#8230; The face of one of them is in blood. Off-camera, a man\u2019s voice: \u201cThese three are my cousins. That one is my second cousin. They were going for water that day, they were carrying large bottles, and right here on this corner, they were all killed. That one is our neighbor, Shamil. They found him and his cousin Musa \u2013 that\u2019s him \u2013 they were shot just at the gate. All these innocent people were shot on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Camera shows a yard. Everywhere are traces of a fire; we can see the walls of the burned house. Off-camera, a man\u2019s voice: \u201cThe owner of this house was taken away, the neighbors said. You can see &#8211; the house was set on fire, everything smashed, broken, looted.\u201d We can see different broken items in the yard. The voice continues: \u201c&#8230;Federals put Novi Aldy in such an order on February 5! No one knows where they took the man who lives here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera focuses on a small grenade, limonka\u201d, which is hanging on the door of a small barn. Off-camera, the same man\u2019s voice: \u201cThey mined our little store! They took everything that was there. See on the door, a limonka! And inside, there\u2019s another one. There are so many of them \u2013 on the doors, on the gates. They set up trip-wires, and they went away \u2026 And there aren\u2019t any boeviks here, so who are the limonkas for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camera shows four people on the street. One is a Russian woman, about 55, another is a Chechen woman of about 45 with a boy, about 10, and another Russian woman, about 75, wearing a blue headscarf. Onr of the Russian women is speakinng: \u201cWas it on the 21st we came here?\u201d The Chechen woman: \u201cThe 21st of January, when they bombed us in Chernorechie, killed our relatives. We decided to move to Aldi. We came to Aldi, brought with us everyone we could, our neighbors\u201d. The Russian woman continues: \u201cSeveral of us from a couple of houses got together, with the children, in one basement. It was so terrible \u2013 it was hell. All we heard was bombs exploding. There were no apartments anymore, nothing. Then we realized that bombs could land in our basement too, so we had to get out of there, and then we came here. Some other people took us all in, and we were able to get some rest. And then the bombing started here. There aren\u2019t any boeviks here, but they were bombing here anyway! When the bombing ended, we were so happy! We got out of hell! And then, the first Russians who came here February 4th were normal. But February 5 came, and they starting the killing. Killing peaceful people! We got from being bombed to here, from one hell to another hell.\u201d The Chechen woman interrups: \u201cIt was a terrible sight. You would have to see it \u2013 shooting innocent people!\u201d She turns to the elderly Russian woman: \u201cAunt Anya! Tell them what happened, how they shot your husband! It was a terrible thing! They didn\u2019t spare Russians, didn\u2019t spare Chechens. They just said straight out, \u2018We were given orders to shoot everybody. Kill everybody!\u2019 OMON [Russian special forces] or MOMON, I don\u2019t know. Mercenaries! \u2026 They had special hats on, and \u2026 Such a terrible sight! \u2026 They took everything they could from the women. And then the second day after the killing, when the bodies were in the houses, a \u201cUral\u201d drove up. I thought, \u2018It\u2019s a BTR [armored truck]. It was a truck. It turns out that that day they took all the stuff from the houses and hid it somewhere, and on this day they were returning to pick it up. They stepped over four dead bodies in this house, and took everything they could. They\u2019re not human, they are beasts. They came to kill.. \u2018Chechens!\u2019 they said, \u2018are not to be left alive! ALL Chechens are boeviks. Every one of them is a terrorist &#8211; women, children! Everybody must be shot!\u2019 And children- this boy, you see?\u201d She removes his hat and caresses his head. \u201cThey told him, \u2018You\u2019ll grow up to be a boevik. You\u2019re a terrorist, you have to be killed!\u2019\u201d Shyly, the boy takes his hat back from her and walks to her side. \u201cThat\u2019s how they terrified the child.\u201d Aunt Anya, the Russian woman, is speaking to the camera: \u201cI\u2019m Russian. We\u2019ve been living with Chechens as neighbors. This is one of my neighbors, and here\u2019s another neighbor. We all were trying to survive together in the same basement.\u201d The Chechen woman continues, speaking with great emotion: \u201cAnd they threw grenades into the basement! They blew people up alive! It is terrible \u2013 they\u2019re fascists. Fa-sci-sts!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are some additional evidences, collected by the organization Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nageeva Aminat (not his real name), a citizen of the village Novy Aldi: \u201cFebruary 5, about noontime \u2013 my father, brother, and I came out and saw soldiers setting houses on fire \u2026 When they saw us, one of them cried out, \u2018Put a mark on their foreheads, Seryi, so it\u2019ll be easier to shoot them on the head.\u2019 Ruslan Ellsaev \u2013 he was about 40 years old \u2013 he was standing outside his house smoking when they shot him. One bullet hit 2 centimeters from his heart and he needed a doctor, but we couldn\u2019t show him to Russians. They finished off sick and wounded people, peaceful people, elderly and women. Lyoma Akhtaev, born 1968, &#8211; he stayed alive by a miracle after a mortal shell landed in his house. Three of his family were killed, and he was badly wounded. On February 5th the soldiers burned him alive, him and Isa Akhmadov (born 1950). We found their bones afterwards, we collected them in a container. Any expert can prove that they are human bones, it\u2019s human DNA. They also dragged Shamkhan Baytiarov out of his house and burned him alive. The beasts killed 80-year-old Rakiat Akhmatova \u2013 first they wounded her, and then they threw her to the ground. \u2018Don\u2019t shoot!\u2019 she cried out \u2013 and there are other people who witnessed this. Ramzan Ellmurzav, born 1967, he was an invalid \u2013 on February 5th he was wounded and he died in the night, of peritonitis. And they forced the two Idigov brothers into a cellar and then threw grenades in, with them inside. One managed to remain alive somehow, the other was blown to pieces.\u201d Magomed Gaitaev was shot next to his own gate. Is it possible to mention them all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zoya Umarova (a resident of Novy Aldi; this is not her real name): \u201cThere were no boeviks among those killed on February 5th. All were peace-abiding citizens \u2026 All died terrible deaths. Isa Akhmadov and Ramzan, one of the sons of Tsanaev \u2013 apparently they were burned alive. And the Khazbulatovs were killed and then burned in their home: Abdul (born 1940 or \u201942), his wife Samart and their two sons Magomed and Akhmad, 11 and 13 years old. Another person I knew who died \u2013 the old man Gupa Khaidaev, he was over 70. A man who had never offended anybody! Tuta Khaniev also died, born in 1954, he also wasn\u2019t a boevik. I don\u2019t know when and how this war will end, and how many more victims will be sacrificed on President Putin\u2019s altar. I only know that after all these horrors I cannot feel respect for Russians. I doubt that we will be able to live in peace with them within one state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Victoria Poupko<\/strong>, Boston<br \/>\n<strong>Vladimir Krylovsky<\/strong>, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 years from the tragedy in the Chechen village of Novy Aldi: 5-6 Feb.2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"views":1005,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11901,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions\/11901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}