Ismail Gadaborcheva
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K016 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 16 · Incident group: Aslangeriev household
Age recorded: 74 · 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
Ismail, an elderly uncle of Zainap Tangiyeva, stayed in the small cellar of her parents’ house on the night of 10 January. The following morning the daughters found the home damaged by fire, and the heat and smoke prevented entry into the cellar. The family believed Ismail and Hijan Gadaborsheva had died there. Their bodies had not been retrieved when Human Rights Watch published its investigation.
Verification and unresolved questions
The HRW open letter calls the victim Ismail Gadaborcheva, while the narrative uses Ismail Gadaborshev. The differing suffix is a source inconsistency, not proof of two people. His death was presumed, not confirmed by recovered remains.
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 · Hijan 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 16.
