Süymönkul Chokmorov (Kyrgyz: Сүймөнкул Чокморов, before 2000: Kyrgyz: Чоң-Таш, romanized: Chong-Tash,[1] Russian: Чон-Таш; English translation: "Big Rock") is a small village (kishlak) in Chüy Region, Kyrgyzstan, located just south of the capital Bishkek.
[5] 137 people – politicians, teachers, scientists and other professional and intellectuals from all over Kyrgyzstan – were secretly taken from the Bishkek (then Frunze) prison, shot to death, and their bodies dumped into a brick oven at a mountain NKVD location near the village.
This was part of Joseph Stalin's crackdown of nationalist movements in Central Asia.
The bodies were then dug up and interred at a memorial site just outside the village called "Ata Beyit" ("Grave of our Fathers").
Former president Askar Akayev, other Kyrgyz dignitaries, and relatives of the dead participated in the reburial.