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Russia/Chechnya Statistics Update for Michael P., including tensof thousands of civilian deaths
* The official figure for the number of Russian soldiers who died in
Chechnya between 1999 and mid-2003 is 4,705 - though the Soldiers' Mothers of Russia organisation put the figure at 11,000. * Thousands of Russian troops remain in Chechnya - some 38,000 were entitled to vote in a March referendum on a constitution for the republic - only a tiny fraction have been withdrawn. * There are few places where they can feel totally safe. A missile attack on a helicopter in August 2002 killed 116 - the heaviest Russian casualty toll in a single incident since the start of the second Chechen war in 1999. * Their estimate for the first Chechen war, which lasted from 1994 -1996 is 14,000 dead, compared with the official 5,500. Civilian deaths in this war are numbered in the tens of thousands. * More than 250 people went missing in Chechnya in the first half of 2003, according to a member of the pro-Moscow government * Another government official was quoted as saying that 1,178 people had been killed in the first nine months of 2002, and that 654 people had disappeared. - From "Russia's suicide bomb nightmare", http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3020231.stm "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones at their neighbours." |
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