The story of Magomed Bamatgiriev
My name is Magomed and I am 13 years old. I was born on 27 March 1993. I am a pupil of the 7th grade and I like football. I have two sisters, one older and one younger than me. My parents don’t work. We live in a Temporary Accommodation Centre for internally displaced people in Michurino settlement of Grozny. Before the war we had our own house, but it was burnt during the second military campaign. During the second war we moved to Nazran as Internally Displaced Persons. We returned to Chechnya in 2002. In the beginning we were hosted by our uncle in his house. Two weeks later, at midnight, the house was hit by a shell in the kitchen and in the bedroom I was sleeping in. I was severely wounded in my leg. A doctor living in the neighbourhood arrived and took me to the hospital. There the wound was treated, but my leg could not be saved and was amputated. I stayed in the emergency room for 3 days and then in the traumatic department for a month. I could not go to school, but the teacher would come to my house to give me lessons. It was 2 years before I received prosthesis and was able to walk. Since then I have attended school. Now I am acting in a movie called ‘Dead field’, which is produced by a Russian film production company. It’s about mines and mine victims. It will be broadcast in a year and a half.
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