Violence Begets Violence: Russia and Chechnya
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The Alkhan-Yurt massacre was the December 1999 incident in the village of Alkhan-Yurt near the Chechen capital Grozny involving Russian troops under command of general Vladimir Shamanov. The villagers claimed approximately 41 civilians were killed in the spree, while the human rights groups confirmed and documented 17 incidents of murder and three incidents of rape. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), it was not an isolated incident, as Russian troops have been systematically looting villages and towns under their control.
The Grozny safe corridor shooting incident happened on December 3, 1999, when about 40 people fleeing the besieged Chechen capital Grozny were allegedly killed by Russian policemen. According to accounts from survivors, a refugee convoy consisting of about 50 people in seven or eight passenger cars and one bus marked with white flags, was heading towards the border with the Russian republic of Ingushetia, when they approached a federal roadblock near the village of Goity. One survivor described masked OMON[1] troops opening fire with automatic rifles from their position in the nearby forest without warning. The bus exploded as bullets pierced its gas tank. After the shooting, Russian soldiers gave first aid and painkillers to the handful of survivors and brought them to the hospital in Sleptsovskaya, Ingushetia, where they were interviewed by journalists.
The Novye Aldi massacre was a February 5, 2000, incident in which Russian federal forces summarily executed at least 50 civilians in the Novye Aldi (Aldy) suburb of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The killings occurred in the course of zachistka (a 'mopping-up' or cleansing operation), conducted several days after the end of the battle for the city. As a result of the killing spree up to 60 people were killed, numerous houses were burnt down, and civilian property was stolen by troops in an organized manner. The guilt of the Russian state in the Aldi murders was established by two judicial cases in the European Court of Human Rights several years later (Estamirov and Others v. Russia and Musayev, Labazanova and Magomadov v. Russia).
Komsomolskoye massacre occurred following the battle of Komsomolskoye of the Second Chechen War in March 2000, when large numbers of the Chechen rebel fighters were reportedly massacred by the Russian troops. Prominent in the incident was fate of the group of about 74 Chechen combatants who had surrendered on March 21, 2000 on the federal promise of amnesty, but almost all had either died or "disappeared" shortly after they were detained.
In the Staropromyslovski massacre Russian federal soldiers summarily executed at least 38 confirmed civilians during an apparent spree in Staropromyslovsky city district of Grozny, the Chechen capital, according to survivors and eyewitnesses. The killings went unpunished and publicily unacknowledged by the Russian authorities. In 2007, one case of a triple murder was ruled against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The Novye Aldi massacre was a February 5, 2000, incident in which Russian federal forces summarily executed at least 50 civilians in the Novye Aldi (Aldy) suburb of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The killings occurred in the course of zachistka (a 'mopping-up' or cleansing operation), conducted several days after the end of the battle for the city. As a result of the killing spree up to 60 people were killed, numerous houses were burnt down, and civilian property was stolen by troops in an organized manner. The guilt of the Russian state in the Aldi murders was established by two judicial cases in the European Court of Human Rights several years later (Estamirov and Others v. Russia and Musayev, Labazanova and Magomadov v. Russia).
Komsomolskoye massacre occurred following the battle of Komsomolskoye of the Second Chechen War in March 2000, when large numbers of the Chechen rebel fighters were reportedly massacred by the Russian troops. Prominent in the incident was fate of the group of about 74 Chechen combatants who had surrendered on March 21, 2000 on the federal promise of amnesty, but almost all had either died or "disappeared" shortly after they were detained.
In the Staropromyslovski massacre Russian federal soldiers summarily executed at least 38 confirmed civilians during an apparent spree in Staropromyslovsky city district of Grozny, the Chechen capital, according to survivors and eyewitnesses. The killings went unpunished and publicily unacknowledged by the Russian authorities. In 2007, one case of a triple murder was ruled against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Dozens of mass graves containing at least hundreds of corpses have been uncovered since the beginning of the Chechen wars in 1994. As of June 2008, there are reported to be 57 registered sites of mass graves in Chechnya. According to Amnesty International (AI), thousands of people are believed to be buried in unmarked graves with up to 5,000 civilians who disappeared since 1999 (the beginning of the Second Chechen War) remaining missing.[2] The largest mass grave to date was found in 2008 in the regional capital Grozny, containing some 800 bodies dating back from the First Chechen War in 1995. Russia's general policy to the Chechen mass graves is to not exhume them.
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