#chechen wars

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Chechen women during the First Chechen War, c. December 1994 - August, 1996.

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Chechen women praying for russian troops not to advance on Grozny, December 1994. X

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Women in Grozny, Chechnya

By Krzysztof Miller (1995)

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The pictures show deputy regional commander of shatoy, Hayrullah Hamzatov, a young Mujahideen fighter from the north Caucasus, who tragically passed away after being injured by a russian mine in june of 07. His death and that of many other young martyrs likewise were a ripple effect of the russian 1994 invasion of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria under Boris Jelzin, with the motive of securing local oil reserves and making them an example for other revolutionary movements in the russian federation.

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Chechen rebel unit moving south

"Many of the Chechen rebels who made it out of the capital, Grozny, are moving south toward the rugged mountains towards western Chechnya, where at least three-thousand of their comrades have fled and are concentrated in various villages. Senior Russian military officials say their forces will head south as soon as federal troops have seized Grozny, but the rebels insists they will continue to fight the Russians in a partisan campaign. Russian forces are raining bombs and shells on the villages inhabited by the rebels in western Chechnya.

This video shows one such group of Chechen rebels in the southern hills. The rebels insist the mountains allow them more mobility to wage a guerrilla war. The Russians have been bombarding the rebel-held Argun and Vedeno gorges, trying to dislodge the militants from their refuges on the forested inner slopes of the gorges. The gorges are key corridors through the mountains that shelter rebels and from which they can mount guerrilla attacks on the Russians. The Russians believe that rebel supplies are also coming through these gorges, some of them believed to be from Georgia, the only foreign country that borders on Chechnya. Russia thought it had crushed the Chechens after Grozny fell in 1995 during the first Chechen war. But the Chechens retreated to the mountains and went on fighting until they retook Grozny in 1996 and forced Russian forces to pull out of the territory. For more than a century, the Chechens have been fighting the Russians for their independence. And there is little sign that they will give up that struggle now."

2:06 into the video you can see Chechen bard Timur Mutsurayev in white, known for singing about the conflict in Chechnya as well as touching on Islamic themes - next to his comrade brandishing a large knife who says: "This is a weapon we saved for Putin personally. I bought it for 500(?) rubles at a market. Inshallah!"

(5th Feb 2000)

Second Chechen war (1999 - 2009)

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𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘺𝘢, 1995-2003.