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More than 1,000 men, sometimes women forced to clandestine detention centers. Relatives mystified as to there whereabouts. Some Russian troops bribed with money, weapons or ammunition. Returning gave rise to evidence of rape to both women and men, constant beatings rendering broken bodies; some with hammers. One left with severe back injury, another broken ribs giving rise to kidney issues. Guards treating inmates cruelly knowing their camps are illegal. Unregistered, unsanctioned, unlawful, no records kept of who's detained or where. Where bodies have been found they usually bear scars of torture and violent death, some unrecognizable - blown up. Wealth of a family determines ransom of kidnapped or arrested persons. Only the death cave or torture chamber awaits where money's not exchanged. Knowing Chechen belief in funeral or burial gave rise to a trade in corpses. 100 to 3,000 dollars paid for return. Some 10,000 are missing with possibly another 15,000 in refugee camps conditions appalling. Inadequate make shift shelters, lack of food and clean water, heating and essential basics. Extortionate rents are charged for those trying to relieve and avoid the over crowding. Shelters are but empty trucks, tents and railway carriages. Humanitarian aid blocked, and medical supplies limited, Chechen people afraid for their male population - loss of husbands, sons. Children not permitted to attend schools. Once out of money often returned to war zones. Their homes no longer there places having been looted and under complete destruction. Ongoing war takes its toll bombings over 50,000 homes destroyed. From 424 villages, 270 are gone. Agricultural lands contaminated by land mines and bombs threatening the nations survival. Mass graves uncovered, 200 corpses in one. Arms and legs tied, blindfolded. Signs of mutilation, severed finger tips, stab wounds. Broken bones, flayed body parts, ears removed. A body of a one year old child. 100 beheaded bodies in another. Worse still some also had internal organs removed, not knowing where those parts were destined, - but assuming black market for much sought after transplant. War on terrorism used as an excuse for what has taken place, Putin trying to cover atrocities that have already happened. Continued abuse of a country wounded by the years of war...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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