Minusa Ausheva

Staropromyslovski archive ID STA-K021 · Human Rights Watch original list no. 21 · Reported civilian victim

Recorded age: 67 · Reported death or discovery: 22 December 1999 · Place: Shelter in Yevloyev family property, Staropromyslovski district · Evidence status: Body found with gunshot wounds; later fire

What the sources document

Minusa Ausheva was the wife of Abukar Yevloyev. According to Human Rights Watch’s investigation, neighbours found her shot dead in a shelter at the back of the property, alongside their neighbour Zeinap Gairbekova. The family had not been able to return to retrieve Minusa’s body before a fire consumed the house.

Limitations and editorial verification

The account is based on neighbours’ reports conveyed to the family and HRW. It does not establish a specific individual’s criminal responsibility or the detailed origin of the later fire.

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

Abukar Yevloyev · Saparbek Yevloyev · Zeinap Gairbekova

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 21.

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