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2006

In Chechen’s Humiliation, Questions on Rule of Law
August 26, 2006 – (The New York Times) The humiliation of Malika Soltayeva, a pregnant Chechen woman suspected of adultery, was ferocious and swift. Ms. Soltayeva, 23, had been away from home for a month and was reported missing by her family. When she returned, her husband accused her of infidelity and banished her from their apartment. The local authorities found her at her aunt’s residence. They said they had a few questions. What followed was no investigation.

A Chechen mother's painful search
July 27, 2006 - (BBC News) Six years on since her son disappeared, Fatima Bazorkina still finds it difficult to watch the television footage which is at the centre of a landmark court case. She dabs her eyes with her handkerchief as a Russian general calls on his fellow officers to shoot her son.

2005

Women's conference rejects talks with Chechen militants
March 3, 2005 - (Interfax) No negotiations should be held with Chechen guerillas, says a resolution released by a conference entitled Women for Peace and Stability in the Chechen Republic. The conference, organized by the Women's Dialog organization, took place in Grozny on Thursday.

'Black Widow' Fears Surround a Russian Verdict
February 6, 2005 - (WOMENSENEWS) Female Chechen suicide bombers have committed atrocious violence and roused fear in Russia and one Chechen woman was convicted recently of terrorism. Her lawyers, however, argue that she was framed by authorities eager to catch a "black widow."

2004

Chechen women 'detained and tortured'
December 24, 2004 - (Times of India) The United Nations voiced concern on Friday at first-hand reports of arbitrary detention and torture of women in Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya, a UN official said.

'New Stage' of Fear For Chechen Women: Russian Forces Suspected in Abductions
October 19, 2004 – (Washington Post) Just before sunrise one morning this month, a dozen armed men in camouflage uniforms and black masks burst into the house of Zalpa Mintayeva, shouting, "Do you have a man at home?"

MASS RALLIES FOR BESLAN VICTIMS
September 7, 2004 – (BBC) Tens of thousands of people have been attending a rally against terrorism in Moscow, as the nation mourns victims of the school siege in southern Russia.

RUSSIAN MOTHER FACED SEPARATION FROM CHILD
September 6, 2004 (AP) -- Hour after hour Oksana Yuzhkeivich endured the moment-to-moment terror that she could die a violent death at any second. Then it got worse.

BESLAN GRIPPED BY GRIEF AND ANXIETY
September 6, 2004 – (IWPR) Beslan's streets are full to the brim and the centre of the town has turned into one big funeral procession. On some streets wailing and crying come nearly from each house.

WOMEN AT HEART OF THE TERROR CELLS
September 5, 2004 – (The Observer) When there is a bombing, Russians are no longer surprised to discover a girl is responsible.

IN SCHOOL’S RUINS, A TOWN CONFRONTS THE UNTHINKABLE
September 5, 2004 (NYT) - Shafts of light passed through bullet holes in the pupils' desks, which were stacked together at windows, makeshift barricades against attack. Ghastly sights waited behind them, but almost no one could stay away.

RUSSIANS STORM SCHOOL; 100 BODIES FOUND
September 3, 2004 - (AP) Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. More than 100 bodies were reportedly found in the gymnasium where hostages had been held.

SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 9 AT MOSCOW SUBWAY STATION
September 1, 2004 – (NYT) A woman blew herself up outside a subway station in Moscow on Tuesday evening, killing at least 9 other people and wounding more than 50, officials said. The suicide bombing came exactly a week after bombs destroyed two passenger airliners over Russia.

ARMED GANG SEIZES HUNDREDS AT RUSSIAN SCHOOL
September 1, 2004 - (Reuters) Armed attackers seized a school in southern Russia near rebel Chechnya Wednesday, took up to 400 children and adults hostage and threatened to blow up the building if police tried to storm it, news agencies said.

MOSCOW SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS AT LEAST 10, INJURES 50
September 1, 2004 - (AP) A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 - the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week.

EXPLOSION NEAR RIZHSKAYA METRO STATION COULD BE DONE BY TWO SUICIDE BOMBERS WHO STAY IN MOSCOW
August 31, 2004 – (Pravda) Shortly before the explosion near Rizhskaya Metro Station in Moscow happened, PRAVDA.Ru pointed out that the group of the suicide bombers, who exploded two Russian jetliners Tu-154 and Tu-134 could have two other female bombers in addition to Aminat Nagayeva and Satsita Jebirkhanova v the two suspects of the recent air crashes in Russia.

TERROR PROBE FOCUSES ON 2 CHECHEN WOMEN
August 31, 2004 - (Combined News Services) They lived in the same apartment in Chechnya, worked in the same market and may have died within moments of each other on separate airliners that crashed in Russia last week.

AFTER 10 YEARS OF WAR, CHECHENS SEEK PEACE ABROAD
August 26, 2004 - (Reuters) Uma wanted nothing to do with the Chechen war and sat out the fighting hundreds of miles from her homeland. But the war found her anyway.

GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI ATTACKS CHECHEN WOMEN
August 3, 2004 - (Kavkaz Center) Most likely, after Georgian president Saakashvili did not get too lucky in South Ossetia, he decided to show how tough he is by sending Georgian troops against Chechen women and children.

CHECHEN REFUGEES IN NAZRAN GO ON HUNGER STRIKE
July 27, 2004 - (HRVC.net) Chechen refugees housed in the temporary accommodation center Denal in the Ingush city of Nazran have gone on a hunger strike to protest the halt of gas deliveries.

LOCAL LEADER OF PRO-PUTIN PARTY KILLED IN CHECHNYA BY ATTACKERS WHO INVADED HER HOME
July 18, 2004 - (AP) Masked attackers broke into the home of a local leader of the pro-Russian party in the separatist Chechen republic and shot her to death early Sunday, according to Russian media reports.

CHECHEN WOMEN PREPARED FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
July 12, 2004 – (ORChD [Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship] Information Centre) The mothers, sisters and wives of people who have at some time been kidnapped in Chechnya by Federal and Chechen pro-Moscow forces held a meeting on 7 July in Shali.

CHECHNYA'S FIRST WOMEN'S MAGAZINE
July 1, 2004 - (BBC) The first magazine to be targeted at women in Chechnya has been published, according to the Russian television channel NTV. However, the magazine, called Nana, the Chechen word for "mother", has little in common with its glossy Western counterparts. There is no gossip about celebrities or hot fashion tips; instead it focuses on the everyday hardship faced by Chechen women as a result of the fighting in the troubled republic.

GUERRILLA RAIDS FORCE CHECHEN REFUGEES TO FLEE AGAIN
June 28, 2004 – (New York Times) A woman from Chechnya, an invalid, sat by a mound of dirty possessions, her three grandchildren wandering in the dust nearby. Their refugee camp was emptying, but they were too poor to buy a ride on the trucks hurriedly heading out of here.

DISPERSAL OF WOMEN'S MEETING IN GROZNY
June 7, 2004 – ( HRVC) A large group of Chechen women (from 150 to 200 people, according to some reports) staged an action of protest at the complex of government buildings in Grozny on June 2. The women demanded that the authorities impart the whereabouts of their relatives and intimates who were abducted by officers of different security agencies and disappeared during so called "purges". However, as one of the women who took part in the action reported, a high-ranking official of the interior ministry who came out to see the protesters demanded that they immediately break up and addressed the women standing close to him with the words, "I remember everyone, we will look into it later!"

CHECHEN WOMEN BEING SEIZED TO PREEMPT BOMBINGS, RIGHTS GROUPS SAYS
May 26, 2004 – (LA Times) The pattern is chilling in its simplicity. First, the husband dies. Often, he's a Chechen rebel fighter, or someone merely suspected of being a rebel. He is killed in a firefight with Russian forces, or he is arrested and dies in custody. Then, the woman who mourns him disappears. Sometimes she is released after a few days or a few weeks. Or sometimes not at all.

ACT OF PROTEST IN GROZNY
April 1, 2004 – (Prima News – Chechnya) Since the morning of 31 March an act of mass protest has been staged in the centre of Grozny. Around 2,000 people, mainly women, have blocked all the approaches to the Government buildings complex.

CHECHEN “BLACK WIDOW” BOMBER JAILED
April 8, 2004 – (BBC – Chechnya) A Chechen woman accused of trying to set off a bomb in Moscow last July has been sentenced to 20 years, says Interfax news agency.

A WOMAN FROM USUS-MARTAB IS KILLED ATA CHECKPOINT
March 15, 2004 – (The Chechen Times – Chechnya) On March 1, 2004 Russian servicemen at a checkpoint situated between Urus-Martan town and Guekhi village, Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic, opened unprovoked fire and killed Khaskhanova Lyuba Salamovna (born 1985). One of witnesses, a taxi-driver, Sultan by name (his surname isn’t revealed for the safety purposes) told a reporter of the Information Center at the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship about the tragedy.

NEW KIDNAPPINGS IN CHECHNYA
February 27, 2004 – (Prima News – Chechnya) Several days ago in the village of Ghekhy, Urus-Martanov District, Russian forces seized a young girl and took her away to an unknown destination. Nothing more is known of the incident except for the girl’s name: Madina. On 24 February during a zachistka, or “clean-up operation” in the village of Goyti, also in the Urus-Martanov District, Russian forces arrested and removed two local residents. According to the information available, they were charged with taking part in military actions against the federal powers.

RUSSIA "FORCING" CAMP CLOSURES
February 26, 2004 - (IWPR's CAUCASUS REPORTING SERVICE, No. 220) Ingushetia's refugee camps are disappearing. The long rows of tents that used to be pressed up against one another have thinned. Now dark spots and big empty spaces on the raw ground are reminders that the place was home to displaced Chechens for more than four years.

CHECHNYA: NEW METHODS, SAME OLD ABUSES
February 5, 2004 – (IWPR'S CAUCASUS REPORTING SERVICE, No. 217) A night-time campaign of kidnappings and murders continues to terrorise Chechnya.


2003

IN GROZNY THE MOTHER’S OF CHECHNYA MEETING TOOK PLACE (in Russian)
December 24, 2003 - (Caucasus Times) Almost 200 people, mainly mothers, whose sons have disappeared after being held by the police force groups, organized the protest in front of the Parliament building.

WOMEN PART OF SUICIDE BOMB TEAM THAT KILLED 40
December 5, 2003 – (Scotsman News – UK) Three women and a man took part in the suicide bomb attack that killed at least 40 people and wounded scores on a Russian commuter train packed with school children and students near war torn Chechnya today.

SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS AT LEAST 37 ON TRAIN NEAR CHECHNYA
December 5, 2003 – (NYT) A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded commuter train in southern Russia today, killing at least 37 people in what President Vladimir V. Putin denounced as a terrorist act intended to disrupt parliamentary elections here this weekend.

RUSSIAN ARMOURD VEHICLE KILLS FIVE WOMEN
November 4, 2003 – (Prima News – CHECHNYA) The Chechen Committee for National Liberation has reported that on 28 October an armoured vehicle carrying Russian soldiers close to Urus-Martan crashed with a RAF car, with passengers inside. Five women were killed. According to eye-witnesses, the armoured vehicle was driving along the road when it suddenly turned to one side and literally crushed the tax

CHECHNYA’S WOMEN, RAPED AND MARTYRS
December 4, 2003 – (Peacereporter – Grozny) Russian soldiers break in their houses, kidnap, rape and kill. Almost never are the culprits punished, the government prefers to cover everything up. And the girls choose to become terrorists for the shame. This was the case for two of the suicide bombers who on October 23, 2002 occupied Moscow’s Nord-Ost theatre.

TWO GIRLS WERE KILLED IN CHECHNYA AS RESULT OF BOMBARDMENT
October 15, 2003 – (RADIO LIBERTY) Two girls of 10 and 13 were killed as a result of bombardment in the district center of Shali in Chechnya yesterday. The Russian military wounded in the Urus-Martan district as the car was undermined on the federal route "Kavkaz". Five officers of military commandant's offices were wounded in Grozny the night before as a result of Mojaheds' attacks.

WOMEN OF CHECHNYA: “RETURN OUR CHILDREN…”
August 19, 2003 – (KavkazCenter – Chechnya) On Monday several dozen women were rallying near the entrance to the compound where the building of the puppet regime is located. The women were demanding that their relatives, previously detained by law enforcers, be freed.

FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS UNNERVE RUSSIANS
August 7, 2003 – (NYT) Zulikhan Yelikhadzhiyeva lived much of her short life surrounded by the horrors of the two wars in Chechnya, but she suffered comparatively little.

TWO WOULD-BE WOMEN SUICIDE BOMBERS KILLED IN CHECHNYA
July 24, 2003 – (ITAR-TASS) Two young women, whom Chechen militants trained to become suicide bombers, have been killed in Chechnya, a representative of the provisional press centre of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Northern Caucasus told Itar-Tass on Thursday.

CHECHEN BRIDE SNATCHING ON THE RISE
July 7, 2003 – (IWPR'S CAUCASUS REPORT) Chechen and Ingush women are being abducted for wives in the name of tradition.

CHECHNYA'S FEMALE BOMBERS
July 7, 2003 – (BBC) One of the most shocking aspects of recent Chechen rebel suicide attacks has been that many of the perpetrators were women.

WOMEN CONTINUE THEIR PROTEST NEAR GIKALO
June 29, 2003 - (Relief Web-North Caucasus) A protest has been ongoing now for two days near Gikalo, a village about 5 kilometers from Grozny on the road leading to Argun.

CHECHEN WOMEN JOIN TERROR'S RANKS
June 12, 2003 – (Christian Science Monitor) The young woman was smiling and waving as she approached the bus that had stopped at a railroad crossing near the Caucasus town of Mozdok, North Ossetia.

THE KIDNAPPED WOMAN AND SCHOOLGIRL FROM ULUS-KERT FOUND DEAD
June 4, 2003 – (CENTER NEWS – Kavkaz) On June 1 in the Shali distric of Chechnya were discovered the bodies of a Chechen woman and schoolgirl, abducted by Russian invaders from Ulus-Kert settlement on the night of May 18, publication of Caucasus Times informed.

TWO CHECHEN WOMEN ABDUCTED
May 29, 2003 – (Jamestown Press) The Nazran office of the respected Russian human rights organization Memorial reported last week that, on May 17, a civilian woman and a teenage girl were kidnapped in the village of Ulus-Kert, in Chechnya's Shatoi district, presumably by Russian servicemen. The kidnappers arrived in armored personnel carriers at about 3:00 a.m., seized the women by force and took them off to an unknown destination. The two Chechens are Kurbika Gekhaeva, born in 1970, and her relative, Aminat Dugaeva, born in 1988. The former has a brain tumor and is subject to epileptic attacks.

WOMEN SUICIDE BOMBERS KILL AT LEAST 30 IN CHECHNYA
May 14, 2003 – (ANANOVA) Two women suicide bombers have killed at least 30 people, including themselves, in an attack at a Chechen religious ceremony.

A FAMILY OF TWO WOMEN WAS SHOT
May 5, 2003 – (Memo.ru – Chechnya, Nazrani) A family of two women was shot. The women perished during a terrorist act in the village of Iliskhan-Yurt (Belorechye) in the Gudermes district.

RUSSIANS KILLED 11 WOMEN IN THREE DAYS
February 3, 2003 – (KavkazCenter – Chechnya) They all were relatives either sister or wife, or mother of Chechen mujahideen. So on Thursday night, a group of invaders broke into the apartment of the sister of a well-known Chechen commander, Magomed Tsagarayev, who became shaheed in the past year, and she was taken as hostage


2002

SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN CHECHNYA (In French)
April 15, 2002 - Russian forces have raped and sexually aggressed women during their operations this winter in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch denounced on April 10, 2002.

RUSSIAN TROOPS USING RAPE AS A WEAPON
April 10, 2002 – (Scotsman News – Chechnya) RUSSIAN forces have raped and sexually assaulted women during winter operations in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch charged yesterday.

RUSSIAN BRUTALITY IN CHECHNYA BACK IN SPOTLIGHT
February 19, 2002 – (Pacific News – Chechnya) Western nations initially ignored Russia's ruthless military campaign in Chechnya to gain Moscow's support for the war on terrorism. Now, as reports of human rights abuses in the region stream in, Europe and America are losing patience.

2001

WOMEN OF CHECHNYA SPEND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY FIGHTING FOR THEIR CHILDREN
September 3, 2001 – (PRIMA NEWS) Chechen women with relatives who disappeared after being taken into custody by the Russian military in its counterterrorist operation gathered at a meeting in the center of Grozny on March 8. The meeting was held on Theater Square at 10:00 a.m. About 100 participants held signs reading "Russia, return our children," "Free the innocent," "Let our sons go" and "Stop the genocide.”

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
June 5, 2001 – (Women’s Review of Books) The Soviet Union has collapsed, but its principal part, Russia, remains the largest country in the world. Chechnya, one of several Muslim republics within Russia, is located in the north Caucasus, between the Caspian and the Black Seas, and is bounded on the south by the independent state of Georgia.

2000

CHECHNYA RAPE SURVIVORS FACE BANISHMENT
January 5, 2000 – (Women Envision – Isis International Newsletter) The Human Rights Watch has charged that Russian soldiers are raping women in Russian-controlled Chechnya. The group has gathered testimonies from Chechen refugees claiming to have seen bodies of victims or had conversations with rape survivors. Testimonies, mostly from Chechen women, recounted how Russian soldiers, usually drunk, committed sexual violence against young and old women, including those pregnant.

1995

IN CHECHNYA, WOMEN LEFT WITH DETRITUS OF WAR
October 9, 1995 – (CNN) They sing for Allah's help. God knows the women of Chechnya need it. They have fled from the firing, and grieved for their sons, their daughters, their husbands and their fathers. And now, it is left for them to pick up the pieces.

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