Balavdi Akhmetov

Victim record SAM-1995-V015 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Ахметов Балавди Абдул-Вахабович — Year of birth: 1966 — Date of death in Memorial: 8 April 1995 — Location: Detention column near the railway station, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 15

Documented circumstances

According to Memorial, Balavdi Akhmetov was taken from his father’s home on the evening of 7 April 1995 for an identity check and was subsequently held with other detained residents.

The following morning, witnesses described his being shot during the movement of a column of detainees, while he was attached by a restraint to an armoured personnel carrier near the railway station. Memorial records statements from his brother and other villagers, as well as a funeral list and death-certificate reference. No individual perpetrator is identified in the appendix.

Related documented cases (Sharipova Street): Adlob-Vakhab Akhmetov · Abi Akhmetova · Vladimir Belov · Doga Tsatishaev. These links connect records by documented place or family relationship, without implying unrecorded kinship or personal criminal guilt.

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. 15; compare the relevant discussion in sections 9.1–9.2 of the report. The account is based on testimonies and supporting records described by the investigators.

Editorial qualification

This is a source-based memorial entry, not a judicial finding or an independent criminal investigation. Statements about the soldiers’ conduct are attributed to Memorial’s witnesses; a particular individual perpetrator has not been established here. English transliterations are editorial, and a precise birth date is not available. Witnesses’ private addresses have not been reproduced.

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