Vakha Aziev

Victim record SAM-1995-V003 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Азиев Ваха Мамаевич — Year of birth: 1957 — Date of death in Memorial: 8 April 1995 — Location: Zagornaya Street; reported killing at Sharipova Street, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 3

Documented circumstances

Memorial registered Vakha Aziev as a resident of Zagornaya Street in Samashki. Its investigators recorded his death on 8 April 1995, placing the shooting in the courtyard of his wife’s parents’ home on Sharipova Street.

According to the Appendix 3 entry, Aziev was shot in the presence of members of his family. Memorial lists testimony from his wife and brother, alongside information from the deputy head of the village administration. These accounts underpin the attribution in the source to the military operation; the appendix does not identify the shooter by name.

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. 3; 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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