Lechi Arsaev

Victim record SAM-1995-V012 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Арсаев Лечи Ханапович — Year of birth: 1950 — Date of death in Memorial: 8 April 1995 — Location: Stepnaya Street, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 12

Documented circumstances

Memorial’s victim register records that Lechi Arsaev was shot in the morning of 8 April 1995 at his home on Stepnaya Street.

According to his wife’s testimony recorded in Appendix 3, he was displaying a white flag on the house when he was shot. Memorial listed his wife as the named source of the account and recorded a death-certificate reference. The investigation does not provide the personal identity of the person who fired.

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. 12; 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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