Abdulvagap Aslangeriev
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K013 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 13 · Incident group: Aslangeriev household
Age recorded: 75 · Reported death / discovery: Night of 10–11 January 2000 · Location: Family home, Staropromyslovski district, Grozny · Evidence classification: Body found shot by daughters 11 January
Documented circumstances
Abdulvagap Aslangeriev remained at home while his daughters stayed overnight in a larger shelter. On the morning of 11 January, Zainap and Fatima Tangiyeva returned and found their father dead near the bathroom, with gunshot wounds. Neighbour Valentina Fotieva was found shot nearby, while the cellar in which his wife Hijan and another relative had stayed was burning. The two recovered bodies were buried in the yard.
Verification and unresolved questions
HRW’s letter spells the name Abdulvagap, whereas its longer account uses Abdulvahap. No witness described the exact moment of his killing, and his daughters’ account concerns the discovery.
The account reflects Human Rights Watch’s contemporary interviews and the numbered list issued in February 2000. Unless independently judicially established, the identification of an individual soldier as perpetrator is not asserted here. Source variants are preserved. Pseudonyms used to protect living witnesses have not been reverse-identified. No unverified photographs are reproduced.
Related recorded victims
Valentina Fotieva · Hijan Gadaborcheva · Ismail Gadaborcheva
Sources
Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, Open letter dated 10 February 2000 (38 numbered names), record 13.
