Russia's Ongoing Genocide in Chechnya

[Swandiver]

Watchdog alleges mass grave in Chechnya

ReutersPublished: July 1, 2008

GROZNY, Russia: A human rights watchdog in Russia's Chechnya region on Tuesday demanded an investigation into a suspected mass grave where it said Russian soldiers buried up to 300 civilians they had killed in an attack.

Russian forces fought two wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya in which both sides killed and tortured civilians. In the past few years the fighting has subsided and local people are slowly starting to seek redress for acts of violence.

Chechnya's official human rights ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiyev said a group of residents had told him last week about the suspected mass grave, at an asphalt plant about 25 km (16 miles) from the Chechen capital, Grozny.

The ombudsman said it contained the bodies of men, women and children who were killed on October 30, 1999 ....

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[Crimean Tatar]

Russia must evacuate Chechnya and compensate the Chechens for the genocide executed on these peoples.

[Thomas Wrobleski]

Russia's history is nothing to be proud of. They have nothing but violence and genocide against ethnic groups and even their own people. What they are doing to Cheschnya and, now in George, is nothing other than genocide. And we thought hitler was a monster. Hilter must be putin's mentor, when he isn't klissing little boys' tummys.