424:. The courts disagreed with her assessment, as there were no indications that Gaichayev or his accomplices were militants and were rather motivated by robbery — when the charge itself was raised in court, Gaichayev blurted out that he «had done nothing wrong, but simply killed Russians». If charged, he would have become the first person to be tried on genocide charges in the history of the modern Russian state.
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before proceeding to kill all of the family members in a variety of ways. In one instance, killers broke into the house of
Zemlyakov family, and after they had raped the wife, Gaichayev — the only person from the gang conclusively proven to have directly participated in the murders — grabbed an
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their 10-year-old son until he succumbed to his injuries. The only exception was the final murders, when the gang broke into the home of Mr. Yakimochkin, the director and a teacher at a local
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approached the village, he was released and quickly resumed his killings. Eventually, Gaichayev and
Khalidov were arrested again by federal authorities in December 1999 in the village of
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On April 18, 2001, both men were found guilty — Gaichayev on all counts, while
Khalidov was only found guilty of rape and robbery. Later that day, Gaichayev was given the
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family. Sometime in early 1997, he partnered up with fellow villagers Rustam
Khalidov, brothers Rizvan and Kharat Magomadovs, and Dzhabrail Espirov to organize a
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Gaichayev and Khalidov were put on trial for the murders. The crimes were considered so severe that prosecutor Maria Semisynova suggested that
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descent — it is unclear whether this was done because each of the gang members held racist views against them, or simply because they feared
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nationals. Media reports never clarified what happened to Kharat
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charges should be included in the indictments, arguing that the targeted killing of
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along with his wife. After killing them, the gang members stole money and alcohol before fleeing the crime scene.
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typically included breaking into the house and subduing the inhabitants, whereupon
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targets in the nearby village of
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from 1997 to 1999. Due to the severity of the crimes and the fact that all the victims were ethnic
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descent. With the help of four accomplices, he robbed, raped and killed at least 10 people in
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The genocide charges were eventually dropped, and
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court ordered that he be detained for the murder of an elderly woman. However, when
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454:See also
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