Alina Zubayeva

Staropromyslovski archive ID STA-K027 · Human Rights Watch original list no. 27 · Reported civilian victim

Recorded age: 8 · Reported death or discovery: Night of 20 January 2000; discovered 21 January · Place: Zubayev family courtyard, Grozny · Evidence status: Body directly observed by two neighbours

What the sources document

Alina Zubayeva was the eight-year-old daughter of Malikah Zubayeva. Two eyewitnesses interviewed separately by Human Rights Watch found Alina’s body in the family’s courtyard on 21 January, amid the bodies of seven other relatives. The report describes Malikah and another family member found holding their daughters. Alina’s grandfather Said Zubayev had been found shot in the street two days earlier.

Limitations and editorial verification

The testimony supports Alina’s death in the same family massacre, but does not establish her precise time of death or the identity of an individual perpetrator.

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

Larisa Zubayeva · Eliza Zubayeva

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 27.

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