 According to human rights group Memorial as well as Anna Politkovskaya, the Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya Idris Gaibov had orchestrated the atrocities by Kadyrovites in the outskirts of the Chechen village in the Kurchaloy on July 27–28, 2006.Reportedly, he hung the severed head of a killed rebel fighter up as a warning to the rest of the village.As a Chechen state official, he had given orders to members of the Russian security forces who were not subordinate to him to decapitate a dead body.