Malikah Zubayeva

Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K026 · HRW numbered entry 26

Recorded age: 45 · Date of death / discovery: Night of 20 January, found 21 January · Place: Zubayev family home, Grozny · Evidence status: Body observed with daughter Alina

Documented circumstances

Malikah was the daughter of Said and Zeinap Zubayev and the mother of eight-year-old Alina. She helped find and bring home her father’s body on 19 January. On 21 January two neighbours found Malikah and Alina dead among eight bodies in the family courtyard. One witness recalled seeing Malikah holding her daughter.

Limits of the evidence

The eyewitness accounts concern discovery and scene conditions; no witness in the HRW report observed the precise shooting of Malikah.

This memorial is based on the original Human Rights Watch witness investigation and its separately numbered list of 38 reported victims. It is not an independent criminal judgment. Where the source relies on a body discovery or secondhand report rather than an eyewitness to the shooting, that distinction is preserved. Missing surnames and photographs are not invented.

Other linked victims of this episode

Said Zubayev · Zeinap Zubayeva · Ruslan Zubayev · Mariet Zubayeva · Luiza Zubayeva · Said-Magomet Zubayev · Alina Zubayeva · Larisa Zubayeva · Eliza Zubayeva

Sources and archive

HRW, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, letter of 10 February 2000 — numbered list of 38, entry 26.

38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier