The film we present below is dedicated to the massacre in the village of Novy Aldy on February 5, 2000. This incident was one of the most terrible and bloody pages of the Russian occupation in Chechnya.<\/p>\n
A film about the events of February 5, 2000 in the village of Novy Aldy, Chechnya, where OMON security police from St. Petersburg, Russia, carried out a\u00a0 “mop-up\u201d operation. Residents of the village say that\u00a0 after the raid they buried 82 corpses, and the Memorial human rights centre later documented the killing of at least 56 people. No insurgents were among those who were shot \u2013 all were civilians: old people, women and children. The operation at Novy Aldy was one of the bloodiest in the history of the Second Russian – Chechen War.<\/p>\n
The film is based on documentary video footage taken by residents of Novy Aldy on February 9, 2000, and on interviews with eyewitnesses of the events recorded in January-February 2009 by members of the Memorial Human Rights Centre at the request of the film\u2019s directors.<\/p>\n
Direction:<\/strong> Yelena Vilenskaya, Nikolai Rybakov and Yekaterina Sokiryanskaya<\/p>\n Taking part:<\/strong> Natalya Estemirova, Vladimir Kostyushev, Yelena Smirnova and Shakhman Akbulatov<\/p>\n Background commentary:<\/strong> read by Russian actor Alexei Devotchenko<\/p>\n Camera:<\/strong> Akhmed Gisayev<\/p>\n Editing:<\/strong> Sergey Feoktistov<\/p>\n **Special thanks are due to Novy Aldy residents who took part in the filming, together with Oleg Orlov, Svetlana Gannushkina and Tatiana Kasatkina.<\/p>\n \n