Abdurakhman Shamsaev

Victim record SAM-1995-V093 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Шамсаев Абдурахман Магомедович — Year of birth: 1958 — Death recorded by Memorial: 8 April 1995 — Location: Detention column near the railway station / road to Zakan-Yurt — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 93

Documented circumstances

Abdurakhman Shamsaev was wounded during the shelling of Samashki on 7 April 1995. Memorial records that he was detained with his brother the next day during an operation described by the forces as a filtration procedure.

He was transported with other detainees on a stretcher because of his injuries. According to testimony gathered by Memorial, guards ordered the stretcher to be placed on the ground near the railway station and then shot the wounded man. Appendix 3 provides the date of death as 8 April and lists evidence from a cousin and other villagers, the funeral list and a death-certificate reference.

Primary evidence

Memorial Human Rights Centre, “By All Available Means… The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs operation in Samashki” (1995, Russian PDF), Appendix 3, victim no. 93; see the relevant discussion in sections 9.1–9.2. Memorial’s evidence includes eyewitness accounts and supporting records.

Editorial qualification

This memorial entry summarises an independent human-rights investigation. It is not a criminal conviction or an independent judicial determination of the identity of a shooter. Names are transliterated editorially; the Cyrillic recorded by Memorial remains the source spelling. No unverifiable photographs or biographical details have been added.

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