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Article: No refuge: Russian terrorism against Chechens ignored.(CHECHNYA)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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FATIMA is not in good shape. She suffers from hypertension. But she is better than she was. Before, she used to get angry about everything. Now she laughs as she explains: 'When they come in the middle of the night with their masks and guns, and pull us out of bed when we are sleeping with our husbands, I only tremble. I guess I've learned to cope better'.
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Fatima is talking about the sweep operations conducted by Russian Federation Forces trying to round up Chechen 'rebels'--Chechens who have sought independence from Russia during a 10-year bloody conflict. Tens of thousands of combatants on both sides and hundreds of thousands of ...