Said-Selim Tungoyev
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K006 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 6 · Incident group: Borodina Lane gate shooting
Age recorded: Approximately 50 · Reported death / discovery: 20 January 2000, approximately 3 p.m. · Location: Gate at Pereulok Borodina, Grozny · Evidence classification: Shooting directly witnessed; body buried in courtyard 22 January
Documented circumstances
Said-Selim Tungoyev was sheltering with other civilians in a cellar on Borodina Lane. When two soldiers approached the gate, he and survivor Saipudin Saadulayev went to speak to them. Said-Selim explained that fighters had left the area. Gunfire wounded him in the arm; Saipudin reported seeing a soldier approach the wounded man and shoot him in the head. Neighbours buried the body in the courtyard two days later.
Verification and unresolved questions
The longer HRW narrative spells his surname Tugoyev, whereas the numbered letter has Tungoyev. The eyewitness account provides strong details but not a verified identity for the soldier responsible.
The account reflects Human Rights Watch’s contemporary interviews and the numbered list issued in February 2000. Unless independently judicially established, the identification of an individual soldier as perpetrator is not asserted here. Source variants are preserved. Pseudonyms used to protect living witnesses have not been reverse-identified. No unverified photographs are reproduced.
Related recorded victims
This incident has no other linked victims in the current set of individual records.
Sources
Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, Open letter dated 10 February 2000 (38 numbered names), record 6.
