Anzor Taimaskhanov
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K001 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 1 · Incident group: Khashiev–Taimaskhanov family
Age recorded: 16 · Reported death / discovery: Between 21 and 25 January 2000 · Location: Family house, Staropromyslovski district, Grozny · Evidence classification: Body found 25 January; injuries documented by relatives
Documented circumstances
On 21 January Petimat Goigova saw Anzor alive with his mother Lida. On 25 January Magomet Khashiev and Petimat found their bodies and that of Adlan Akayev in the courtyard. The boy was wearing a white armband intended to indicate civilian status; identity documents were nearby. Family members who prepared his body for burial described multiple gunshot wounds and knife injuries. The remains were subsequently taken to Nazran.
Verification and unresolved questions
The HRW letter identifies him as Anzor Taimaskhanov, while its detailed report calls him Anzor Khashiev. These are treated as two recorded forms for a single source entry, not silently corrected. HRW did not establish the precise time of death or identify an individual killer.
Judicial follow-up (24 February 2005): In Khashiyev and Akayeva v. Russia (applications 57942/00 and 57945/00), the European Court of Human Rights found Russian State responsibility under Article 2 for the deaths of Anzor Taymeskhanov and four other relatives or residents in the connected case, as well as a failure to investigate effectively (§§ 140–166). The court spells the surname Taymeskhanov and identifies Anzor as born in 1982. HRW’s name variant remains in this archive. See the judicial source cross-reference.
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
Lida Taimaskhanov · Adlan Akayev
Sources
Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, Open letter dated 10 February 2000 (38 numbered names), record 1.
