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Under the Jackboot : Russia's 'forgotten war' in Chechnya turns uglier--and looks increasingly likely to spread beyond its borders. A report from the front.(Statistical Data Included)(Illustration)
It was the kind of story that people in Chechnya know only too well. In the deep of night, Russian troops clad in camouflage uniforms and masks surrounded the village of Krasnostepnovskoye. After a brutal search for presumed rebels, they detained six men, 32 to 44 years old, blindfolded them and loaded them into an armored personnel carrier. The missing men turned up four months later--in a mass grave on the border with neighboring Ingushetia, uncovered in early September. The tip-off came from the soldiers who had done the killing. They charged the villagers a hefty fee for telling them where to find the corpses.
The episode, documented by the Russian ...
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