And sour grapes for any Russians here :P
Two Chechen women walk past a Russian police officer patrolling Grozny 24 September 2004. Pro-Russian Chechen officials joined with rights campaigners in slamming widespread abuses against civilians in war-torn Chechnya Friday at a conference held to highlight the violence in the breakaway republic. A top member of the pro-Moscow government in Grozny, State Council head Taus Jabrailov, denounced "ten years of war which destroyed 80 percent of infrastructure, killed thousands of innocent people and trampled on the rights of Chechens. "We see continuing violence, executions, racketeering, looting and even the sale of the bodies of kidnapped people to their families with complete impunity, not to speak of artillery fire against villages," he added.[/quote]
Two Chechen women walk past a Russian police officer patrolling Grozny 24 September 2004. Pro-Russian Chechen officials joined with rights campaigners in slamming widespread abuses against civilians in war-torn Chechnya Friday at a conference held to highlight the violence in the breakaway republic. A top member of the pro-Moscow government in Grozny, State Council head Taus Jabrailov, denounced "ten years of war which destroyed 80 percent of infrastructure, killed thousands of innocent people and trampled on the rights of Chechens. "We see continuing violence, executions, racketeering, looting and even the sale of the bodies of kidnapped people to their families with complete impunity, not to speak of artillery fire against villages," he added.[/quote]
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