Abukar Yevloyev

Staropromyslovski archive ID STA-K019 · Human Rights Watch original list no. 19 · Reported civilian victim

Recorded age: 67 · Reported death or discovery: 22 December 1999 · Place: Yevloyev family courtyard, Staropromyslovski district · Evidence status: Body found with gunshot wounds by neighbours

What the sources document

According to Human Rights Watch, neighbours heard gunfire from the home of Abukar Yevloyev on 22 December 1999. When they reached the property they found Abukar and his nephew Saparbek Yevloyev shot dead in the courtyard. Abukar’s wife Minusa Ausheva and neighbour Zeinap Gairbekova were found shot in a shelter. Abukar’s body was brought inside the family house, which later burned before the relatives could recover it.

Limitations and editorial verification

The earliest information came through neighbours and family, some not directly interviewed by HRW. The precise sequence of the shooting and the individual shooter were not established. The open letter spells his surname Yevloyov.

This is a memorial record grounded in contemporaneous human-rights witness testimony. It is not an independent criminal verdict. Dates, English spellings, witness protection and unrecovered bodies are treated according to the original sources. No portrait is presented without verified identification and reproduction rights.

Related victims from the same incident

Saparbek Yevloyev · Minusa Ausheva · Zeinap Gairbekova

Primary sources

Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000); HRW open letter to Vladimir Putin, numbered list of 38 victims (10 February 2000), entry 19.

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