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740 died in landmine explosions in Chechnya for 9 years 740 people have been killed as a result of mine or UXO [unexploded ordnance] explosions in Chechnya since 1995, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Russian Federation reported on June 11. 3,293 incidents when people fell victims to mine and UXO explosions, including 2,553 cases of injuries, have been registered in Chechnya since 1995, according to OCHA. "This data doesn't include information about servicemen killed in mine explosions," a spokesman for OCHA said. Source: Interfax News Agency
June 12th 2004 · Prague Watchdog Chechens still do not get compensation for 1944 deportation Timur Aliyev, North Caucasus - The Chechens have thus far received no financial recompense for the expulsion of their nation in 1944, a Moscow-backed Chechen body has stated. "The Chechens are the sole North Caucasus nation whom the state has so far not compensated for the deportation in the period of the Great Patriotic War," said participants in a recent meeting at the State Council of the Chechen Republic. The participants discussed a mechanism for making a list of persons that constitute victims in line with the Act on Repressed Nations, and for paying monetary compensations. "Our fellow citizens who had been driven out of their historic motherland can expect from the authorities some tangible results of [the process of] compensation for their suffering in the second half of the year," the participants said. The other Caucasus nations who were expelled in the period, that is the Karachayevs, Kalmyks, Ingush, and Balkars, received compensations in 1993-4. The sums stood at 8,000 roubles for each person who had been deported or born in the deportation period. According to official information, now there are nearly 54,000 people falling into this category in the Chechen Republic. At the order of the then Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, about 650,000 Chechens and Ingush were forcibly sent to Central Asia and Siberia in 1944. They were only allowed to return in 1957, four years after Stalin's death.
Interfax. Saturday, Jun. 12, 2004, 11:14 AM Moscow Time GROZNY. June 12 (Interfax-South) - Two policemen were killed when a remote-controlled landmine was set off on Ugolnaya Street in the Chechen capital, Grozny, a Chechen law enforcement source told Interfax on Saturday. One more policeman was injured, the source said. The policemen were killed when a car belonging to Maj. Badruddi Umarov, acting commander of a patrol police regiment, was blown up several dozens of meters from the entrance to a sports club at about 8:05 p.m. Moscow time Friday. The explosion killed Umarov and another policeman sitting in the car. One more policeman, who was nearby the car, suffered a concussion, he said. The Interfax source said the capacity of the bomb was equal to about 3 kilos of TNT. The investigation is being handled by the Staropromyslovsky district prosecutor's office and police
Top Chechen police officer killed in car-bomb blast VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia: A car-bomb blast killed a top police officer in the Chechen capital Grozny as fighting persisted in the war-ravaged Russian region, an official in the Moscow-backed government said Saturday. The head of the police patrol service in Grozny, Bagrudi Umarov, was killed along with a driver and another officer Friday when a bomb placed beneath his car exploded, the official said on condition of anonymity. One policeman was wounded in the blast. In other violence in the past day, three Russian servicemen and one rebel fighter were killed in a clash near the town of Vedeno, in southern Chechnya, and two rebels were detained after the firefight, the official said. Two other Russian servicemen were killed and 10 wounded in rebel attacks on Russian positions, the official said. He said there were 18 such attacks over the previous 24 hours. Russian forces targeted suspected rebel positions in several parts of Chechnya with artillery, and at least 300 people across the region were detained during security sweeps. (snip) |