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Article: War wounds: U.S. urges Russia to end war in Chechnya. (republic started civil war in 1991 to become independent of Russia, which sent troops in Dec 1994 that were defeated by the rebels)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 9, 1996
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GROSNY, Russia--War, like acid, corrodes everything it touches. It turns young men into killers; wastelands; it hardens hearts, builds undying hatreds, and destroys souls.
Few people know the ugly ways of war as well as the people of Grozny (GRAWZ-nee), Russi. Grozny (whose name means "terrible" in Russian) is the capital of Chechnya (CHECH-nee-uh), a New Jersey-sized republic in southern Russia. A Russian republic is similar to a U.S. state.
Grozny has been the center of a brutal war for almost two years. In streets where couples once strolled and children skipped, wild dogs now roam among corpses. Buildings lie blackened, burnedout, and abandoned. The dark ...
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