riefly returned to the lorry.
17. On 18 May 2000 one of Mr R.Dz.'s acquaintances told him that he had heard in the news broadcasted by the "Chechnya svobodnaya" ("Чечня свободная") radio station that close to Gekhi the Russian military forces had "eliminated" a KAMAZ lorry carrying members of illegal armed groups. No other KAMAZ lorries, other than the one the applicant's relatives had been driving in, had been "eliminated" by military servicemen in the area around that time.
c. Discovery of the bodies of the applicant's relatives
18. On 19 May 2000 the corpses of the applicant's relatives were discovered by a shepherd in the vicinity of Roshni-Chu. According to him, about 1.5 km. away from the base of a Russian military unit he had found a pile of empty ammunition boxes. He noticed that the cows had been afraid to approach it and behaved "strangely"; he had concluded that human corpses must have been underneath it.
19. On 20 May 2000 a number of residents of Gekhi and representatives of the local administration and the press went to the scene. However, instead of the pile of boxes they found a shell hole, measuring approximately 2 x 3 metres, and human remains within a radius of about a hundred metres around it. Then the group discovered the body of Ramzan Suleymanov with numerous firearm and shell wounds, and next to it the body of Aslanbek Aydamirov. About 50 metres away they found the body of Ibragim Suleymanov with the head and two limbs missing. The missing limbs were found about 20 metres away from the body. As to Petimat Aydamirova, only some parts of her body were found, namely, her two legs and her head. Her earlobes had been torn and her earrings were missing.
20. The deaths of Ramzan Suleymanov, Ibragim Suleymanov and Petimat Aydamirova were certified by a document issued by the Urus-Martan district prosecutor's office on an unspecified date. In addition, the death of Petimat Aydamirova was also confirmed by an official medical statement issued by the Gekhi district hospital on 6 June 2000. The document stated that her death had occurred on 19 May 2000 and had been caused by numerous shell wounds to the head and chest. The death of Ramzan Suleymanov was also confirmed by a death certificate issued by the Urus-Martan district civil registry office ("ЗАГС") on 19 June 2000, stating that his death had occurred on 19 May 2000 and by an official medical statement issued by the Gekhi district hospital on 6 June 2000, stating that his death had occurred on 19 May 2000 and that it had been caused by numerous shell wounds to the head and chest.
21. In support of her statements, the applicant submitted an account by Mr R.Dz. dated 15 March 2006, an article "Nelyud" ("Нелюдь") published in the "Marsho" ("Маршо") newspaper on 3 June 2000, the medical statements, dated 6 June 2000 and the death certificates, undated and dated 19 June 2000.
2. Information submitted by the Government
22. The Government challenged some of the facts as presented by the applicant and submitted their version of the events. Referring to the findings of the domestic investigation, they submitted the following.
a. The killing of the applicant's relatives
23. At the material time, in May 2000, a counter-terrorist operation was taking place in Chechnya. The Russian military forces participated in the operation in order to eliminate illegal armed groups and to prevent them carrying out further criminal activities.
24. At some point prior to the events, the military forces had obtained information that illegal armed groups were using a road between Gekhi and Roshni-Chu as a supply route. A military intelligence unit was charged with to discovering it and eliminating the members of the illegal armed groups.
25. At about 7.30 p.m. on 16 May 2000 a group of servicemen of the military intelli
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