For decades Chechnya has seen war, devastation, terrorism and ping pong government control. More recently Chechnya has been known for its terrorist attacks by separatists against civilians with the School bombing being the most infamous of the attacks. After the second war, Russia disabled the Chechen forces to the point where large scale fighting is no longer a large issue and the chechen rebels have gone to a guerrilla form of warfare targeting Russian forces where they could.

The 2 Chechen wars and intermittent fighting after have claimed the lives of many chechen civilians and brought some attention to human rights violations in that region by both sides. Even though huge amounts of people have been killed in the wars and other fighting, only a few incidents really received international media coverage.

The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 . The war established the Chechens independence from Russia and created the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

The first Chechen war was 1994–1995.  Russian forces attempted to control the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flatlands in spite of Russia’s overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support.  Boris Yeltsin declared a ceasefire in 1996 and later signed a peace treaty.

sick images of the devastation in Chachnya due to decades of war and fighting.

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The Second Chechen War, or War in the North Caucasus, was launched by the Russian Federation in August 26, 1999, in which Russian federal forces largely re-took control of the separatist region of Chechnya.

The Second Chechen War was started in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the IIPB, and the Russian apartment bombings which Russia blamed on Chechen separatists, although no evidence linking Chechens with the bombings has been released to the public. The campaign largely reversed the outcome of the First Chechen War, in which the region gained de facto independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Although it is regarded by many as an internal conflict within the Russian Federation, the war attracted a large number of Jihadist foreign fighters.

photo gallery of fighting in Chechnya as well as the more recent school bombing that made international headlines for the terrorist attack against school children.

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This is a compilation, put to music. The video shows the sick devastation in that region that has seen 2 wars in a few decades and intermittent terrorist activity. Have no idea what the narrator is saying, what the music is or which side even shot this video… the language used in the video, may in fact be universal and really no need to speak the language to get the general idea of people die, mothers cry and maybe some politicians(or holy men) somewhere, hundreds of miles away, win some prize.

This war video is called “Mujahideen Operations in Chechen Province”

Chechnya recently has made news with rebel terrorist activities. Even though Chechnya is bordered by Russia, Russians are a minority and most of the population in Muslim.

From Wikipedia..
Human Rights Watch reports that pro-Moscow Chechen forces under the effective command of President Ramzan Kadyrov, as well as federal police personnel used torture to get information about separatist forces. “If you are detained in Chechnya, you face a real and immediate risk of torture . And there is little chance that your torturer will be held accountable,” said Holly Cartner, Director Europe and Central Asia division of HRW.

Human rights groups criticized the conduct of the 2005 parliamentary elections as unfairly influenced by the central Russian government and military.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports that after hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes after inter-ethnic and separatist conflicts in Chechnya in 1994 and 1999, more than 150,000 people still remain displaced in Russia more than a decade after the beginning of armed conflict.