Saidi (surname unrecorded)

Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K036 · HRW numbered entry 36

Recorded age: 57 · Date of death / discovery: Night of 21 January; observed 22 January · Place: Shefskaya Street, Grozny · Evidence status: Body viewed from distance in courtyard; surname missing

Documented circumstances

HRW lists a man known only as Saidi among the persons found dead in the courtyard of Khamid Taramov’s house on Shefskaya Street. Two eyewitnesses described seeing four or five male bodies from a nearby property on 22 January. The others identified in the same group were Taramov, Idris Uspayev and Mussa Guchigov.

Limits of the evidence

Saidi’s surname was not recorded. An earlier paragraph in HRW’s report refers to an unidentified man and woman at the house, whereas its later account identifies four men; the discrepancy is preserved and not resolved by invention.

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

Khamid Taramov · Idris Uspayev · Mussa Guchigov

Sources and archive

HRW, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, letter of 10 February 2000 — numbered list of 38, entry 36.

38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier