Staropromyslovski executions

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Staropromyslovski executions
Location	Grozny, Chechnya
Date	December 1999-January 2000
Attack type	Summary executions
Deaths	38 to 56
Perpetrator(s)	Russian federal forces

In the Staropromyslovski executions Russian federal soldiers summarily executed at least 38 confirmed[1] 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.[2]

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