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Apr 8, 2010 · In August 1999, Chechen militants invaded the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan to support a local separatist movement. The following month, five bombs exploded in Russia over a ten-day...
The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was a terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, (including 777 children) [5] ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of them children, [6] as ...
Both Russian officials and Chechen rebels have been regularly and repeatedly accused of committing war crimes including kidnapping, torture, murder, hostage taking, looting, rape, decapitation, and assorted other breaches of the law of war.
The Moscow theater hostage crisis (also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege) was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater in Moscow by Chechen terrorists on 23 October 2002, resulting in the taking of 912 hostages.
Oct 16, 2018 · Chechen-led terrorists have struck repeatedly in the Russian heartland, notably a mass hostage-taking at a downtown Moscow theatre in 2002 that killed 130 people, and a horrific school siege in Beslan, North Ossetia, that killed 330 people, half of them children.
- Chaim Shinar
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Mar 29, 2010 · Following this morning's brutal suicide bombings in the Moscow subway, the world's attention is once again turning to Chechnya. Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the small Russian ...
Feb 28, 2003 · The United States State Department has officially added three Chechen groups to its list of organizations that pose a "significant risk" of committing acts of terrorism.
