Staropromyslovski massacre

Infobox civilian attack
title=Staropromyslovski executions


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location=Grozny, Chechnya
target=Staropromyslovski district
date=December 1999-January 2000
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timezone=
type=Summary executions
fatalities=38 to 56
injuries=
perps=Russian federal forces
motive=None

In the Staropromyslovski massacre Russian federal soldiers summarily executed at least 38 confirmed [ [http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/chech0210.htm Putin Urged to Act on Summary Executions: Deaths of Sixteen More Civilians Confirmed, Total now Thirty-Eight] , Human Rights Watch, February 10, 2000] civilians during an apparent spree in Staropromyslovsky city district of Grozny, the Chechen capital, according to survivors and eyewitnesses.

The killings occurred between late December 1999 and mid-January 2000, during the heavy fighting for the city. Most of the 38 victims were women and elderly men, and all appear to have been deliberately shot by Russian soldiers at close range. More than a dozen additional civilians may also have been murdered in the district, while six men from the district who were last seen in Russian custody "disappeared" during this same period and remain unaccounted for. [ [http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/russia_chechnya/ Civilian killings in Staropromyslovski district of Grozny] , Human Rights Watch / United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees report, February 2000]

Russian military authorities are not known to have seriously investigated the Staropromyslovski killings, as well as other similar incidents in Chechnya.

ee also

*Alkhan-Yurt massacre
*Novye Aldi massacre
*Samashki massacre

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