Kosym Reshiev
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K007 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 7 · Incident group: Neftyanaya Street cellar
Age recorded: Approximately 40 · Reported death / discovery: 19 January 2000 · Location: Neftyanaya Street cellar, Grozny · Evidence classification: Surviving wounded eyewitness saw the attack
Documented circumstances
Kosym Reshiev was one of six civilians sheltering in a cellar on Neftyanaya Street. A survivor interviewed as Lora S. described soldiers ordering them outside, questioning them and demanding belongings. Kosym handed over his cassette player. After the civilians were sent back inside, soldiers threw grenades into the cellar, then ordered them out and shot at close range. Five died; only Lora S. survived.
Verification and unresolved questions
The source documents the episode through the injured eyewitness; it does not assign each bullet to an identifiable individual. The victim’s age is approximate.
Judicial context (4 October 2007): In Goncharuk v. Russia (application 58643/00), the European Court of Human Rights found violations of Articles 2 and 13 arising from the life-threatening attack on the sole surviving applicant and the failure to investigate. The Court described five people killed in the same cellar attack (§§ 69–80), but did not issue five individual judgments identifying each person by name. The name in this file comes from HRW’s earlier eyewitness investigation. 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
Natasha Chernova · Khava (surname unrecorded) · Lyusya (surname unrecorded) · Unidentified man from Shatoi
Sources
Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, Open letter dated 10 February 2000 (38 numbered names), record 7.
