Mother of Elza Kasayeva (name unknown)
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K038 · HRW numbered entry 38
Recorded age: Approximately 80 · Date of death / discovery: Reported 21 January 2000 · Place: Fourth Liniya, Grozny · Evidence status: Death reported by neighbours; body not directly observed by HRW witness
Documented circumstances
Human Rights Watch included the roughly eighty-year-old mother of Elza Kasayeva in its list of civilian victims. A witness who saw Elza’s body at the family house was told by neighbours that her mother, a Russian woman, had also been shot and killed inside a cellar. He did not examine or view her body.
Limits of the evidence
Her personal name and surname are not established by the source. The witness did not see the body. This is a reported death within HRW’s 38-entry list, not a separately verified body identification.
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
Sources and archive
HRW, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, letter of 10 February 2000 — numbered list of 38, entry 38.
38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier
