Hijan Gadaborcheva
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K015 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 15 · Incident group: Aslangeriev household
Age recorded: 67 · Reported death / discovery: Presumed night of 10–11 January 2000 · Location: Burning cellar of Aslangeriev house, Grozny · Evidence classification: Presumed death; body not recovered at time of reporting
Documented circumstances
Hijan was the mother of Zainap and Fatima Tangiyeva and wife of Abdulvagap Aslangeriev. She had remained in the family home’s cellar with an elderly uncle when her daughters left for a larger shelter. On the morning of 11 January the family found the house burned and the cellar filled with intense heat and smoke. They could not enter or retrieve her remains; Human Rights Watch listed her as believed dead there.
Verification and unresolved questions
The longer HRW narrative spells her name Hijan Gadaborsheva, while the numbered list says Gadaborcheva. Death was inferred from circumstances; no body was recovered and no direct witness described her final moments.
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
Abdulvagap Aslangeriev · Valentina Fotieva · 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 15.
