[lizol]

In 1989 there was 956,879 Chechen people (Who are the Chechen? ).
During past 20 years 300.000 died.

Noooo, it's definitely not a genocide, what's going on there! (sarcasm)

[lizol]

Ping

[tobyhill]

"The Chechens and Ingush are Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi school, having converted in the late 17th to early 19th centuries. Islam is now, as it has been since the conversion, moderate but strongly held and a central component of the culture and the ethnic identity."

Moderate? What a bunch of horse crap! These are extremist hell bent on spreading their form of extreme Islam and is supported by the likes of Al-Qaeda. I hope Russia wipes Chechnya off the face of the earth. Even Yugoslavia gave the world something, the Yugo, but Chechen's just know how to kill babies.

[Tribune7]

In 1989 there was 956,879 Chechen people (Who are the Chechen? ). During past 20 years 300.000 died.

And 200,000 gone missing.

[fso301]

300,000 Killed in Chechen Wars

Slow start.

[sergey1973]

This is really terrible death toll. In essense, Chechnya is the result of the clash between two brands of nazism: Kremlin Nazism (Barbarism) vs. Islamo Nazism. Various Federal Forces and local pro Federal militias are completely out of control behaving as barbarian invaders on their own territory, employing dirty tactics of kidnappings for ransom, random murders, etc. On the other side, Basayev and Co. are Islamist terrorists (Islamic CheGuevaras so to speak) seeking to establish Islamic Rule in Chechnya, North Caucasus and elsewhere in Russia and have no qualms about using mass terror too (Beslan, Moscow Theatre, Budennovsk, etc.). Situation is really tough. You can't allow Chechen Islamists to win--it would be geopolitical catastrophy to Russia and to Europe as well because they would turn Chechnya and North Caucasus into the Islamic Caliphate with all the geopolitical consequences (spread of Islamic terror into Russian heartland, control of Caspian oil reserves by Basayev and the likes that would allow them to add more money to the global Jihad). But it's also impossible to close the eyes on how Russian Government barbarically behaves toward its own citizens.