Mariam Goigova

Staropromyslovski archive ID STA-K012 · Human Rights Watch original list no. 12 · Reported civilian victim

Recorded age: 59 · Reported death or discovery: 19 January 2000 · Place: Eighth Liniya (Boulevard), Grozny · Evidence status: Body recovered and examined by daughter; direct and secondhand corroboration

What the sources document

Mariam Goigova was wounded by artillery fragments. Her son Magomet Goigov and two neighbours, Risvan Taimaskhanov and Khamid Khasiev, placed her in a wheelbarrow and tried to take her for medical care. According to witness evidence recorded by Human Rights Watch, Russian soldiers beat the three men, shot Mariam, and drove away with the men. Her daughter Petimat subsequently found her in the wheelbarrow with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. The three men were reported disappeared.

Limitations and editorial verification

HRW relied on the daughter’s account, an incident witness and a reported statement by a soldier. The personal identity of the killer was not independently established. The three missing men must not be automatically classified as confirmed dead.

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.

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 12.

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