Larisa Jabrailova
Staropromyslovski archive ID STA-K004 · Human Rights Watch original list no. 4 · Reported civilian victim
Recorded age: 43 · Reported death or discovery: 21 January 2000 · Place: Koltsova Street, Staropromyslovski district · Evidence status: Direct witness to shooting; body not recovered at time of publication
What the sources document
Human Rights Watch interviewed a woman using the protective pseudonym Hedi L., who survived the same shooting with gunshot and burn injuries. She testified that soldiers had blindfolded the three women, taken them to a damaged house on Koltsova Street and then opened fire. The two other women, including Larisa Jabrailova, died at the scene. The soldiers subsequently attempted to burn the bodies. Larisa was described as the mother of two daughters.
Limitations and editorial verification
As of the February 2000 HRW report, relatives had not succeeded in recovering the bodies. The protected survivor’s identity is not reproduced.
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
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 4.
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