Focus page on conflicts and human rights violations in Chechnya. Civilians in Chechnya continue to be the victims of systematic violations of human rights and humanitarian law, facing the daily risk of torture, "disappearance, " and summary executions at the hands of Russian federal forces.

The hottest places in the Hell are reserved for those who during greatest moral turning-points remained neutral. Dante Alighieri WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS News-digest Photo Archive On the Developments in Chechnya Observers' reports. Witnesses' evidences. Human rights activists' conclusions. Antiwar Action Committee Aims, actions, petitions, how to become a member. Mission. Actions. Declarations. You ...

An article by Robert Cottrell from The New York Review of Books, September 24, 1998 ...